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| 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. |
| 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: | A man stands on a very large tree stump with his arms crossed over his chest. At his feet, crossed, are two axes. In the background, as a contrast, are thi... |
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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: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Logging crew standing on planks and logs possibly in a sorting works on the Yellow River. One man holds a ledger and the others hold long cant hooks. |
| 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: | 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: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men are loading logs onto the bed of an International D-Line truck. A forest and mountain are in the background. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Paul Timm, Arno Timm and Stephen Timm work together sawing a log, which has full 16 foot boards and is 20 feet long. |
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| Description: | Four men posed standing and holding logging tools next to a team of two oxen in the woods. Photographer's wagon in the background of C.R. Monroe, Traveling... |
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| Description: | Large group of men posed standing and holding logging tools with several teams of oxen and horses in the woods. |
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| Description: | Four men posed standing and holding logging tools next to a team of two oxen. Two other men are sawing a tree with a two-handled saw. |
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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 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: | Group of men posed holding logging tools. They are standing and sitting in front of wooden buildings. Two men display two teams of horses. Behind the group... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a group of men posed standing and holding logs in a river with pike hooks. There appears to be a dog on the right of the group standing on... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of two men posed standing on log sorting piers half a mile above the Railroad Bridge on the Black River. There is a large log jam behin... |
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