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Logging Operation

Date: 1912
Description: Men using a large crane at an International Harvester logging operation.
Photograph

IH Logging Operation

Date: 1912
Description: Two men are standing on a log suspended from a steam powered crane at an International Harvester logging operation. Large logs are in the foreground.
Photograph

International 63 Truck with Logs

Date: 06 17 1927
Description: A man and a young girl (daughter?) sitting in the open cab of an International Model 63 truck loaded with logs.
Photograph

Logging with a T-20 Crawler Tractor

Date: 03 09 1938
Description: Men using an International T-20 TracTracTor (crawler tractor), PD-80, and P-300 owned by Sam Seppala of Grand Marais, to log white pine. The original capti...
Photograph

International P-40 Power Unit at Sawmill

Date: 05 12 1939
Description: International P-40 power unit under a shed at a sawmill. Logs are piled near the sheltered work area, and a man works beside them.
Photograph

Men at Sawmill

Date: 10 18 1937
Description: Workers saw logs at a sawmill site in a wooded area. The equipment was powered by an International PD-80 power unit.
Photograph

Man with TracTracTor

Date: 04 26 1937
Description: A man uses an International Model TD-35 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) to haul a sled loaded with logs. The photograph was taken in Fort Frances, Ontario, C...
Photograph

International D-405 Truck

Date: 1962
Description: An International D-405 truck owned by the Dougherty & Zion Company of Tacoma, Washington is being loaded with logs while parked in a wooded area.
Print

Northwestern Lumber Co. Letterhead

Date: 
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...
Photograph

Transporting Logs

Date: 1938
Description: Three men use two International trucks to transport logs through a wooded area. The trucks were owned by F.J. Jacks, logger and retail lumberman.
Book or Pamphlet

Monarch Tractors in the Lumber Field

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a brochure produced by General Tractors Incorporated to advertise Monarch Neverslip tractors. The photograph on the cover depicts two men us...
Photograph

Log Sawing

Date: 1969
Description: Paul Timm, Arno Timm and Stephen Timm work together sawing a log, which has full 16 foot boards and is 20 feet long.
Print

Monarch Tractors

Date: 1920
Description: Advertisement for Monarch tractors featuring a photograph of a Monarch 30-18 hauling a 41-ton load over snow and icy roads. The text at top reads: "Monarch...
Print

How Lumbermen Use the Cletrac

Date: 1921
Description: Pamphlet advertising the Cletrac tank-type tractor. It features a photograph of a man using a crawler tractor to pull a wagon loaded with felled trees; a m...
Photograph

Loading a Bobsled with Logs

Date: 
Description: Group of men posed standing near and on two bobsleds loaded with logs and pulled by teams of four horses. There is an empty sled pulled by a team of four h...
Book or Pamphlet

Caterpillar in the Woods

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising: "The Caterpillar in the Woods." The illustration depicts two men using a Caterpillar tractor to haul logs through a ...
Book or Pamphlet

Best Tractors for Loggers

Date: 1925
Description: Interior page of a pamphlet advertising the Best tractor for loggers. The text reads: "It is in getting the logs from the woods to the pond or mill that gr...

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