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Description: | Two lumberjacks pose at the base of a tree with a double-handled saw poised to cut. |
Date: | 1880 |
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Description: | Two lumbermen posing with a two-man crosscut saw they are using on a fallen tree trunk, cutting the pine into manageable sizes for hauling. |
Date: | 1888 |
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Description: | A logging crew of the Upham Lumber Company, together with the company's locomotive, "Old Vanderbilt," formerly the Wisconsin Central Railroad's Engine No #... |
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Description: | Farmer skidding logs with a team of oxen. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Madeline Island logging camp near Big Bay. Men preparing logs for a building, with three log buildings in background. |
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Description: | Winter view with men logging on the Little Wolf River during the winter of the "blue snow". Logs are being decked on the ice and along the shore. Horse te... |
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. |
Date: | 1913 |
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Description: | Two lumberjacks pose with a saw which they're using to fell a pine tree. |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Sigvart Solbrg, (left) and Anton Follstad, (right) sawing a tree down during winter. |
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Description: | View of a man standing next to a douglas fir which is fourteen feet in diameter. The man is dressed in work clothes and an axe rests on his hip. In the bac... |
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Description: | A view of two men standing on, and two men in front of, numerous logs. One man holds a long ruler for measuring the logs' diameters. A small covered work ... |
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Description: | A man in the background is standing on top of the logs that are being loaded onto a railcar. Four African American men at ground level are working to hoist... |
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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: | Man driving two horses which are skidding a log out of the woods to the logging road. |
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Description: | Elevated view of logging crew posed outside a log cabin in winter. Several horses are at the back of the group. The foreman, Mike Baltus, is possibly at fr... |
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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: | 1895 |
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Description: | Crew of river drivers moving logs off of rocks below a dam probably on the Wisconsin River. |
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. |
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