View of the manufacturing plant of the Virginia & Rainy Lake Company, Virginia, Minnesota. The largest, most modern and complete white pine lumber plant in the world

by Virginia, Rainy Lake Company

$125 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

ca. 1907 . Large chromolithographic postcard, approx. 31 x 5¾ , rolled, with several vertical creases, and a small cut to the left edge. A massive postcard, featuring a view of the manufacturing plant of the Virginia & Rainy Lake Company. Billed as the largest lumber plant in the world, it produced on average one million board feet of lumber a day, seven days a week, requiring a supply of virgin white and red pine totaling four billion board feet over a 20-year period. The company

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