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Eau Claire Public Library Construction

Date: 1903
Description: A detailed carved capital awaiting installation is sitting on lumber supports on the ground near the entrance to the Eau Claire Public Library during its c...
Photograph

Eau Claire Public Library Construction

Date: 1903
Description: Construction workers are lifting a piece into place using a wooden structure supporting a winch and pulley set up near the facade of the Eau Claire Public ...
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...
Postcard

Lumbering in Wisconsin, Filling the Sprinkling Tank

Date: 1910
Description: Reproduction by the Museum and Local History Department of the Eau Claire Public Library of a black and white photograph of a lumbering crew filling the sp...
Photograph

Lumber Mill

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Description: Cutover land near a lumber mill. Logs and boards are stacked near the building in the background.
Photograph

Lumberyard with Town in Background

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Description: A view of the lumberyard with the town in the background.
Photograph

Lumber Mill Workers

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Description: Group portrait of men, a boy, and horses posed among piles of logs and lumber. A bicycle is in the foreground, and a steam engine is in the background.
Photograph

Sawmill in Necedah

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Description: Group of men working outdoors in the snow. Large logs are stacked and ready to be cut. There are two steam or coal-powered machines in the background runni...
Photograph

Int. Super A — Mills & Shops

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "Int. Super A — Mills & Shops." Where Taken: "MidW" Information with photograph reads: "Owned by Kage Box & Crate Co., Reed City, Mich. Used with ...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Joseph Dessert Lumber Co’s Addition to Mosinee

Date: 1899
Description: This map is ink on tracing cloth and shows lot and block numbers and dimensions, streets, the high school park, and survey monuments. The map is oriented ...
Photograph

Sawmills — UD-14A Power Unit

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "Sawmills — UD-14A Power Unit." Where Taken: "SE." Information with photograph reads: "L.C. Wilson, Dundee, Miss. has no trouble obtaining lumber ...
Photograph

Lumbermill Scene

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Description: Elevated view of a lumber mill. Piles of milled wood are in the foreground and on the right, with more stacks in the far background behind numerous small b...
General Information

Great Lakes Small Streams: How Water Shapes Wisconsin

A Traveling Display
Great Lakes Small Streams visually explores our state's long relationship with water and the impact we have had on our vast waterways.
Online Exhibit

Economy and Environment

Wisconsin Citizen Petition Exhibit

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