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Unloading Lumber
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View across Milwaukee River of workers of the Herman M. Hettler Lumber Company unloading lumber off a shipping boat to the Shroeder Lumber Yards and Trostel tannery. Located on the west side of the Milwaukee River north of Pleasant Street bridge (in the left foreground).
March 19, 1940
Brown, Joseph, 1851-1928
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