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Paper Mill
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Two large smokestacks rise from the 1903 building of the Rhinelander Paper Company. Railroad tracks are crossing the left foreground diagonally; a second set of tracks are curving off to the right. A sign on the roof at the right side of the building reads: "Rhinelander Paper Co. Manufacturors of Glassine and Greaseproof Papers." There are rail cars at the loading docks on the left.
January 1936
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