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Painting

Logging Scene

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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...
Photograph

Logging Crew

Date: 1895
Description: A Knapp, Stout & Company crew with J. Bracklin (in fur coat), logging superintendent.
Photograph

Farmer Skidding Logs with Oxen

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Description: Farmer skidding logs with a team of oxen.
Photograph

Logging Near Rice Lake

Date: 1872
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...
Print

Northwestern Lumber Co. Letterhead

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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...
Print

M.H. Wheeler Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of M.H. Wheeler, a lumberman from Florence, Wisconsin, with a man standing on a load of logs, holding the reins for two horses harnessed to the ...
Photograph

Men Logging

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Description: Logging crew of four men with a team of oxen hauling logs through a snow-covered forest.
Photograph

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.
Photograph

Men Logging

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Description: Eight men posed standing and holding logging tools next to a team of oxen in the forest.
Photograph

Men Logging

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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.
Photograph

Copy Photograph; Logging

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Description: Copy photograph of logs being hauled by oxen. A group of seven lumberjacks are standing among the logs.

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