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Stacked Logs

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Description: Long lines of stacked logs at the Halcyon Brickyard.
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Ho-Chunk Child, Dog, and Winter Lodges

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Description: Ho-Chunk winter lodges among trees, probably a Ho-Chunk encampment at the cranberry marsh. There are large, cut logs in between two lodges. A small Ho-Chun...
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Tree Sections at Sawmill

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Description: Man posing standing among tree sections on a sawmill floor.
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Men Logging

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Description: Five men posed standing and holding logging tools next to a team of two oxen in a snow-covered forest.
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Group of People on a Bridge

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Description: View from shoreline of people, men, women and children, gathered in groups on a wooden bridge. A sign in the middle of the bridge reads: "$50 Fine for Cutt...
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Tar Paper Shack at a Construction Site

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Description: View looking up towards a small building standing at the top of a slope. Equipment and piles of building material surround the tar paper shack. Probably a ...
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Steam Powered Saw Mill and Workers

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Description: Group portrait of a group of men sitting near an open steam-powered saw mill.
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Cabin by the River

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Description: View along shoreline towards a cabin, with a railroad bridge in the distance. Lumber is lying on the grass in the foreground.
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Dog on a Stump

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Description: View of a dog sitting on a tree stump in a yard, with a chicken, wood piles and a wooden structure in the background.
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Logging; McKenna Sawmill

Date: 1890
Description: View from hill of the McKenna Sawmill, surrounded by stacks of lumber.
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Men Posing at Lumber Yard

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Description: View across field of scrub grass towards a group of men, some in work clothes and other men wearing suits, standing in a lumberyard at a logging camp. Ther...
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Dam at Merrilan

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Description: Elevated view of a wooden bridge and dam at Merrilan. Lumber is piled on the left.

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