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Meal with the Log Drivers

Date: 1912
Description: View towards shoreline of log drivers eating lunch on the edge of the riverbank. Visiting businessmen share a meal with the log drivers who are sitting and...
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Log Drivers Lunch

Date: 1912
Description: View towards shoreline of log drivers eating lunch on the edge of the riverbank. The men wait in line along a buffet table filled with provisions. The busi...
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Traveling to the Log Drive

Date: 1912
Description: Four businessmen in suits and hats stand around an automobile parked among birch trees, while another man sits in the passenger seat. They are visiting a l...
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Posing on the Cooks Tent

Date: 1912
Description: View looking down from riverbank of four businessmen and the log driving cook posing on the cooks tent barge during the log drive.
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Lunch on the Log Drive

Date: 1912
Description: Four businessmen standing around a table, eating along the banks of the Wisconsin River. The table is set with a stack of bowls and a crate of apples. Logs...
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Neal in the Pines

Date: 1912
Description: C.L. (Neal) Harrington standing among the pines (Trout Lake?).
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Camp 2

Date: 1912
Description: Probably a view of a ranger camp house. There is a ladder propped outside at the front, and there is a broken window with temporary board repairs. Two men ...
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Devil's Lake House

Date: 1912
Description: A house in the woods on Devil's Lake. Devil's Lake State Park was founded in 1911.
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Fire Fighting Crew

Date: 1912
Description: A wagon load of fire fighters is setting out or returning from the forest. The wagon has wooden wheels and is pulled by two horses. Only one of the men has...
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Dam on the Black River

Date: 1912
Description: View upriver towards the dam in front, with the town of Black River Falls in the background on a hilly shoreline. There is a railroad bridge over the river...
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Men at the Dam

Date: 1912
Description: Outdoor view of a group of people on the rock in front of the dam located in front of Black River Falls, with several structures in the background. The gat...
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Hiving Swarmed Bees

Date: 1912
Description: Alexander Krueger standing on a ladder taking a swarm of bees that had swarmed in a tree. On the ground near the ladder is a hive box.
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A Farm in Winter

Date: 1912
Description: A man in a long coat stands next to a log building on a snow-covered farm, possibily in northern Wisconsin.
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Flanders 20

Date: 1912
Description: August Kressin sitting in the driver's seat of a Flanders 20. He is wearing a pair of driving gloves. Farm buildings are in the background.
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Trapeze Acrobats

Date: 1912
Description: View from crowd of a pair of trapeze acrobats performing at a street fair.
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Isaac Stephenson and George Peck's Fishing Trip

Date: 1912
Description: A group of men sit in chairs close together around the entrance of an open tent. In the background are trees and more tents. The men are wearing shirts, bo...
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George Peck in the Woods

Date: 1912
Description: Former governor George W. Peck stands in the woods with his arms outstretched. He is wearing a brimmed hat, shirt, neck scarf, suspenders, and pants.
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Log House on Sliver Lake

Date: 1912
Description: Log house with lean-to addition. There is another building in the background on the left. A road or path is in the foreground. Carl and Christine Peterson ...
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Elm Grove

Date: 1912
Description: View along stream towards people standing in front of buildings and near a stone bridge. The buildings include a post office and a feed mill. Caption reads...
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Playing Tennis

Date: 1912
Description: Dorothy Fargo, holding racquet, and her brother Stuart, are posing with an unidentified woman and two girls in front of a tennis net. The handwritten capti...

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