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| Description: | A two-man team of sawers work on a massive tree with a crosscut saw (right) while a man with an an axe waits to trim branches. The trunks are then cut down... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A Knapp, Stout & Company crew with J. Bracklin (in fur coat), logging superintendent. |
| 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. |
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| Description: | Group of men posed with 13,260 feet of cut lumber on a horse-drawn sled in winter. Some of the men hold cant hooks. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | A group of loggers poses for a group portrait amongst cut logs in a snow-covered wooded area. The men in the middle have their axes in hand, while other me... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Loggers known as "river pigs" round up stray logs with pikes and peaveys at Place's Rapids. |
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| Description: | Horse-drawn lumber sled loaded with logs. Five lumbermen are standing on and near sled. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Northwestern Lumber Company of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, manufacturer of "Lath Shingles & Pickets," with two men in the woods, one poised with a... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A group of men from the Newaygo Lumber Company use a pulley system to lift logs off the snow-covered ground. A team of horses stands on the right. |
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| Description: | Logging crew of four men with a team of oxen hauling logs through a snow-covered forest. |
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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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| Description: | Eight men posed standing and holding logging tools next to a team of oxen in the forest. |
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| Description: | Group of men posed standing and holding logging tools in the woods during winter next to two teams of two horses and a team of two oxen. |
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| Description: | Eight men posed loading logs onto a bobsled pulled by three horses with hooks. |
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| Description: | Four men posed with lumber tools atop a load of logs on a bobsled pulled by a team of two horses. A man is standing near the team, probably James Abram Bai... |
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| Description: | Four men posed with lumber tools atop a load of numbered logs on a bobsled pulled by a team of two horses. A man is standing near the team, probably James ... |
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| Description: | Four men posed with lumber tools atop a load of numbered logs on a bobsled pulled by a team of two horses. A man is standing near the team, probably James ... |
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| Description: | Man posed sitting on a bobsled loaded with logs and pulled by a team of four horses. Another four men are holding logging tools posed next to the bobsled. |
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| Description: | Three men posed standing atop a bobsled loaded with logs and pulled by a team of two horses. Another two men are posed standing nearby, in the woods and am... |
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| Description: | Three men posed standing and sitting with a bobsled loaded with logs and pulled by a team of eight horses in the woods. |
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