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Logging Camp Crew

Date: 1875
Description: Group portrait of a large logging crew posing outdoors in the snow at their camp in front of a log building. One of the men is playing a fiddle or a violin...
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School Boys Using Wood Tools

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Description: Two boys of different ages using wood tools, including planes and files, during a classroom exercise.
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Studio Portrait of Two Lumberjacks

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Description: A studio portrait of two men, probably lumberjacks, that are posed playing cards, drinking, and smoking in front of a painted backdrop. The two men are sit...
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Syl Sawing Wood

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Description: Syl sawing wood from the hull of an overturned rowboat on a small sawhorse. Behind him is a deck overhanging a steep cliff with a river or lake below. A ho...
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Lumberjacks Resting and Logs Rolling Down the Track

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Description: Two views in postcard format. The view on left is of two lumberjacks sitting in front of a tree, each holding an axe. To the left is a large saw used for f...
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Group of Women Learning Woodworking

Date: 1918
Description: Group of women, probably teachers, using tools to assemble various wooden products including nail boxes, benches and cabinetry(?). Three large posters are ...
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Men Posed Holding Logging Tools

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Description: Four men posed standing and holding logging tools next to a team of two oxen in the woods. Photographer's wagon in the background of C.R. Monroe, Traveling...
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Sawing Logs

Date: 01 1928
Description: Two men use a crosscut saw to cut a hemlock log while a third watches. A splitting maul and a splitting wedge rest on a tree stump in the foreground. Smoke...
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Men Logging

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Description: Group of men posed standing and holding logging tools, including a long saw blade, next to and atop bobsleds pulled by a team of two oxen and a team of two...
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Logging Camp

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Description: Elevated view of men posed standing in a snow-covered logging camp. One man is holding a cat, and there is a dog standing nearby. The photographers wagon i...
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posed standing and sitting on benches on the snow-covered ground in front of log buildings and several horse teams.
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posed holding logging tools. Three men stand with six horses. The group is standing on the snow-covered ground in front of a log building. Two...
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posing and holding logging tools while standing and sitting in front of, and on top of, a log building. In the background on the right is a wo...
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men, women and children standing on the snow-covered ground in front of a log building. Some of the men are posed holding logging tools, and two o...
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posed holding logging tools. They are standing and sitting in front of wooden buildings. Two men display two teams of horses. Behind the group...
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Young Lumberjacks

Date: 1920
Description: Two timber sawyers standing posed with their tools in a forest. Both men wear heavy mittens, and the man on the left is carrying a saw across his left shou...
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Sawing Wood

Date: 04 1934
Description: Edgar, Alexander, and Shirley Krueger posing with three other men next to a table saw and an upright pile of stacked wood. A dog is sitting on the ground n...
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Sawing Wood with a Steam Engine

Date: 04 03 1901
Description: Crew of men sawing wood with the use of a steam engine. A large pile of wood is stacked behind the saw. Alexander Krueger is standing between the steam eng...
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Sawing Logs

Date: 1940
Description: Edgar Krueger and Emil Hertz are sitting on separate piles of logs while holding either end of a saw as they cut through a large log. Behind them Shirley K...
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Cutting Firewood

Date: 1955
Description: Elna Krueger stands with another woman and a man while cutting firewood using a belt-driven saw by a tractor in a field in the background on the left. The...

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