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Description: | Farmer skidding logs with a team of oxen. |
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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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Description: | View from shoreline of log driving, with a large group of men using long poles to transfer logs from the land into the waterway. Logs can be seen in the ba... |
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Description: | View across water toward men standing and working on logs in the middle of the river. Booms help to collect the logs that are shipped down river from the f... |
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Description: | Elevated view of two men standing on log booms which cover much of the river's surface. In the background are trees and a bridge. |
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Description: | View of a log raft secured to a dock or barge on the right. Men are standing on the raft chaining the logs together in one compact load. A man is walking n... |
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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: | 1890 |
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Description: | Log driving crew maneuvering logs through rapids below a dam, probably 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: | 1887 |
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Description: | Mill workers in the yard at Ramsay & Jones Mill. |
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Description: | Horse-drawn lumber sled loaded with logs. Five lumbermen are standing on and near sled. |
Date: | 1908 |
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Description: | Colorized postcard of loggers posing with logs piled on horse-drawn sleds. Caption reads: "Logging, Athens, Wis." |
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Description: | Train-load of logs with wood-burning Heisher geared locomotive and train crew. |
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... |
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Description: | Gust Larson, Morris Anderson and another man stand outdoors behind a team of two horses, snaking logs. |
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: | 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... |
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