Title: W.E. Hook Menomonie, Wisconsin, and Logging Photographs
Inclusive Dates: circa 1877

Creator:

• Hook, W.E. (William Edward), 1833-1908

Call Number: PH 6226

Quantity: 7 photographs

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Halves of stereo cards containing photographs made by W.E. Hook, a Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, photographer in 1876-1877, showing views of Menomonie, Wisconsin, and area logging operations, probably by Knapp, Stout & Company.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ph06226

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Acquisition Information

Presented by the Right Reverend William W. Horstick, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, 1964. Accession Number: M94-049

PH 6226	Photographs, circa 1877 Note: Items 2, 7, and 9 are missing.
Item   1	Steam mill with smoke stack and surrounding buildings Note: Taken from Meadow Hill.
Item   3	Main store (1), land office (2), and sleeping shanty (3) and other buildings by Lake Menomonie Note: On the lake is a large log raft. Also taken from a hill or other vantage point.
Item   4	Water mill and company store; man leaning on bridge railing
Item   5	East side of the Knapp-Stout bridge in Menomonie
Item   6	Grist mill and dam in Menomonie
Item   8	The steamboat Annie Girdon (Lightning Packet of Menomonie), which travelled from Dunnville to Reed's Landing
Item   10	A steamboat pushing a huge log raft with men steering, possibly on the Mississippi River