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Great Northern Paper Company

Date: 1930
Description: Elevated view of timber in a canal, with a pile of wood in the foreground, at Great Northern Paper Company, which was incorporated in 1898 and soon became ...
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Pulpwood

Date: 1936
Description: View from river of a machine/crane moving bundles of pulpwood to be made into paper.
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Young Tree near Lumber Stacks

Date: 05 29 1960
Description: A young oak tree grows amid a lumber lot.
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Hussa's Brewery

Date: 1920
Description: Elevated view of back of Hussa's brewery. There is a tall chimney on the left, and a yard with piles of lumber is in the foreground.
Map or Atlas

South Town Addition to Park Falls

Date: 07 07 1915
Description: Ink on tracing cloth. Includes signed certifications from the surveyor, notary public, and Wisconsin Realty Company. From the E.P. Sherry papers relating t...
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Brittingham and Hixon Lumber Company

Date: 1926
Description: Exterior of the Company's lumber yard. A fading sign reads, "order your coal now."
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Small Factory Building

Date: 08 20 1961
Description: Three large rows of stacked logs are piled outside a small factory building.
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Lawson Plant Exterior

Date: 1919
Description: Exterior view from field across pond towards Alfred Lawson's aircraft plant, with buildings and smokestacks. Men are working with a pile of lumber on the l...
Map or Atlas

Map of Secs - T42N - R5E showing Property of the Chippewa & Flambeau Improvement Co.

Date: 1917
Description: Shows landownership, buildings, and swamps around Rest Lake in Vilas County, Wisconsin. Relief shown by contours. "May 1917." From the E.P. Sherry papers r...
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Tom Amlie's Home

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Description: Robert Bloch, Harold Gauer, Tom Amilie, and two unknown men at Amlie's home. Taken to illustrate campaign brochure of Amlie talking to "farmer types."
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Tar Paper Shack at a Construction Site

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Description: View looking up towards a small building standing at the top of a slope. Equipment and piles of building material surround the tar paper shack. Probably a ...
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Wagon in the Granary

Date: 2003
Description: Wagon in the granary on the Quinney farm.
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Lumber Rafts

Date: 1890
Description: Elevated view of men working on lumber rafts on the Wisconsin River.
Print

Yawkey-Crowley Lumber Co. Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the Yawkey-Crowley Lumber Company of Madison, Wisconsin, manufacturers of "Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Sash, Doors, Mouldings, etc.," with two text...
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Men Loading Kawartha Lumber Company Truck

Date: 1938
Description: A group of men load bundles of lumber onto the bed of an International D-30 truck owned by the Kawartha Lumber Company. The truck is parked in front of a b...
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Pile of Rubble

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Description: View of a man standing behind a pile of rubble. In the background is a barn, railroad car, and a large open shed stacked with lumber. Part of a foundation ...
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Female Marine Carpenter

Date: 02 1945
Description: Private Winnie L. Cockrell, a carpenter from the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve, at the Mauna Loa Ridge encampment in Honolulu. Cockrell is wea...
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Loading Logs from Skids

Date: 02 1914
Description: Loggers moving logs onto a horse-drawn wagon in the snow.
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Bird's-Eye View of Blue Mounds

Date: 1930
Description: Bird's-eye view town. There are barns, homes, a church's steeple and a lumberyard.
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Depot and Train

Date: 1913
Description: View down railroad tracks of Cross Plains train depot. A man in the foreground walks away from the depot. A train, exhausting steam, is stopped at the plat...

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