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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 207-215

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Description: The log who was made King of Logs is here entombed
eight round, ten long

For his design, the strengthened forest
capriciously outgrew them all...
Photograph

U.S. Army Engineer Corps Unloading Lumber

Date: 1918
Description: Soldiers from the 310th U.S. Army Engineer Corps unloading lumber from barges.
Photograph

Raft of Lumber

Date: 1887
Description: A raft of lumber which has been floated down the Wisconsin River to be broken up and sold. Two men are standing on the raft, each near lumber stacked on a ...
Drawing

Fort Armstrong

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Description: Illustration of Fort Armstrong on Rock Island, looking from opposite shoreline. There is a barge and other boats on the Mississippi River in front of the f...
Photograph

Rough Fish Removal

Date: 1936
Description: Men standing on a barge, left, and others on a wharf, work with a net full of fish from Lake Winnebago as others watch. Two boys at right are walking away...
Photograph

Delivering Flour

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Description: Delivering flour to Berlin on barges.
Photograph

On Lake Skutari (Skodar)

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Description: Unloading horses from a barge on Lake Skutari in Albania.

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