Hotchkiss' lumberman's directory of Chicago and the Northwest
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- Created Date
- 1886
- Description
During the mid-1880s, the Great Lakes forest products industries were growing at an exponentional rate. Tens of thousands of loggers entered the woods to supply saw mills with raw material that would ultimately be sold as finished lumber, shingles, and other products. To help businesses communicate, George Hotchkiss of Chicago issued this directory of firms throughout the region that produced, sold, or bought lumber. It lists basic information about every company involved in the industry from Duluth to Cincinnati, including hundreds in Wisconsin (starting on page 282). It also included data on logging railroads, laws about labor organizing and strikes, and dozens of illustrated advertisements showing mills, machinery, and goods. Because books such as this quickly went out of date, most were soon discarded; only one other copy of Hotchkiss' Lumberman's Directory is known to exist today.
- Creator
Hotchkiss, George Woodward, b. 1831
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Collection
- Stacks
- Publisher
- R.R. Donnelley & Sons
- Subjects
- Business
Railroads
Forest products industry
Factories
Furniture industry and trade
Logging
Machinery
Sawmills - Type
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- Language
- English
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- Hotchkiss, George Woodward, b. 1831. Hotchkiss' lumberman's directory of Chicago and the Northwest. 1886. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/38523. (Accessed April 20, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Hotchkiss, George Woodward, b. 1831, (1886) Hotchkiss' lumberman's directory of Chicago and the Northwest. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/38523
- MLA citation style
- Hotchkiss, George Woodward, b. 1831. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/38523>.