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Title: Logging Camp
Description: Men posed sitting and standing in a logging camp in front of a steam locomotive. A man in the middle foreground is posed sitting and playing a concertina. Women stand in a doorway of a building in the far background.
Image ID: 94167
Creator
Name: 		Van Schaick, Charles
City, State: Black River Falls, Wisconsin
Collection
Name: 		Van Schaick, Charles : Photographs And Negatives, ca. 1880-ca. 1940*
Genre: Photographs
Additional
Information: 		This image is part of a larger collection of over 6,000 negatives created by Charles J. Van Schaick. Van Schaick learned the art of photography after moving to Jackson County, Wisconsin. In 1885, he opened a studio in Black River Falls, Wisconsin. He was the town photographer for over 50 years. His work includes both studio portraits and richly varied and intimate snapshots of small-town, Wisconsin life.
Subjects: Log cabins
Music
Trees
Logging
Logging railroads
Lumber camps
Cutover lands
Musical instruments
Horses
Hats
Locomotives
Railroads
Men
Outdoor photography
Portraits, Group
Women
Dresses
Beards
Work clothes
Clothing and dress
Implements, utensils, etc.
Moustache
Smoking
Coats
 

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