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| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Log driving crew for the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company. Crew members are in the process of breaking a jam at the Big Eddy. One of the men is carrying a yo... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Loggers breaking up a log jam in the Peshtigo River area. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Log pond with two lumberjacks walking on the floating logs and sorting them in the Peshtigo River area. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Mississippi River with log rafts. |
| Date: | 05 22 1974 |
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| Description: | Trucks heavily laden with logs at the intersection of Highways 173 and 80. |
| Date: | 04 1973 |
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| Description: | View of Austin Creek mill race as it enters the sawmill building. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with lumber workers hauling a large log with horses. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two logging workers pose with their team of horses who are hitched to a go-devil, used for skidding logs to a road or landing. |
| Date: | 01 06 1918 |
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| Description: | Lumber crew posed with a steam hauler and several sleds loaded with logs. The foreman's sleigh pulled by a horse is in the foreground. Possibly foreman, Mi... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two women and one man in street clothes and wearing hats posing among the logs of a large log jam on the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Loggers known as "river pigs" round up stray logs with pikes and peaveys at Place's Rapids. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of loggers posing with logs piled on horse-drawn sleds. Caption reads: "Logging, Athens, Wis." |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View from rocky shoreline across river towards a man standing on rocks and holding a stick in front of a rock face on the opposite shoreline. There are lar... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Black and white photographic postcard of a horse-drawn sled loaded with logs coming out of the woods. One or two men are driving the sled, and a man is wal... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A colored photographic postcard view of a large log jam in the Dells Pond at Eau Claire. There are "booms" and several men standing on logs. Caption reads:... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Log sorting operation on a river in Northern Wisconsin. Men stand on floating logs and maneuver them using cant hooks. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A copy of an older photograph of a logging scene. In the foreground a man is holding the reins of a pair of horses, another man is standing beside him; beh... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Ole Emerson's lumber property. A man is standing on top of a load of logs being pulled by a team of two horses on a sled through the snow. Caption from cal... |
| Date: | 10 23 1909 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Scene Near Rice Lake, Wis." Five lumberjacks pose with a load of logs on a sled pulled by horses. Two skids lean against the logs. Th... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | A man standing on a log cart, holding the reins for a horse team. Other people are in the foreground and background. Shopfronts for Tiny's Saloon and Brigg... |
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