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Northern Paper Mills

Date: 1910
Description: Chimney and water towers at Northern Paper Mills, also a cargo ship called the Yorkton, which carries lumber to the paper mill.
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Northern Paper Mills from the Fox River

Date: 1910
Description: Northern Paper Mills' chimney, water towers, buildings, and lumber yard, seen from the Fox River.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Ashland

Date: 06 1923
Description: A Sanborn map of Ashland.
Photograph

Pulpwood

Date: 1936
Description: View from river of a machine/crane moving bundles of pulpwood to be made into paper.
Map or Atlas

Maps of Trude Lake

Date: 1925
Description: Shows buildings, piers, winter and summer levels, and resort lands. Depths shown by isolines. Relief shown by contours. From the E.P. Sherry papers relatin...
Postcard

Keith & Hiles Mill

Date: 1910
Description: Colorized photographic postcard showing Keith & Hiles lumber mill. There is a tall building on the right that appears to be a silo. Caption reads: "Keith &...
Photograph

Lappley Bros. Lumberyard

Date: 
Description: Winter view of exterior of Lappley Bros. Lumberyard and Feed Mill.
Map or Atlas

Map of the Headwaters of the Turtle River

Date: 1900
Description: Shows limits of drainage basin, dams, rapids, roads, and railroads in parts of Iron and Vilas Counties, Wisconsin. From the E.P. Sherry papers relating to ...
Photograph

Brittingham and Hixon Lumber Company

Date: 1926
Description: Exterior of the Company's lumber yard. A fading sign reads, "order your coal now."
Map or Atlas

Ashland Wisconsin Showing Ashland Lumber Company and Part of Ashland County

Date: 1800
Description: The map is ink and pencil on paper. Map shows the location of the Ashland Lumber Company as well as a portion of Ashland County. Portions of the map are in...
Document

Nekoosa Lumbering Company Stock Certificate

Date: 09 09 1861
Description: Nekoosa Lumbering Company stock certificate for eighty shares made out to Moses M. Strong. Each share costs $50.00.
Print

Yawkey-Crowley Lumber Co. Memohead

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

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...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

Stearns Company Strike

Date: 1975
Description: Informational meeting for the employees of the Stearns Coal and Lumber Co. at about the time the company was sold. During the 1920s and 1930s the company w...
Photograph

Bird's-Eye View of Railroad Yards

Date: 1909
Description: Elevated view of the Fennimore, primarily the train depot. There is a windmill near railroad cars, and dwellings are in the distance.
Photograph

Monfort Business District

Date: 1924
Description: View across railroad tracks of storefronts located near the train depot. The shops include: Montford Lumber Company, Damerow's Cafe, and the American Hotel...
Photograph

Convention Floorshow

Date: 02 1954
Description: Elevated view of entertainment at the annual convention of the Wisconsin Retail Lumberman's Association in Milwaukee.
Map or Atlas

Map of Blackwell

Date: 1972
Description: A topographic map of the Blackwell quadrangle.
Map or Atlas

T44 N-R4W : Advance Map

Date: 1920
Description: Shows geology, test pits, shafts, houses, and the Mellen Lumber Co. Ry. in Marengo township, Ashland County, Wisconsin. "This is a preliminary map issued i...

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