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Felling White Pine

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Description: Two lumberjacks pose at the base of a tree with a double-handled saw poised to cut.
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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...
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Two Lumbermen with Saw

Date: 1880
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.
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Log Drive at Jim Falls

Date: 1909
Description: Men in bateaux for the Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company's log drive on the Chippewa River at Jim Falls.
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Logging Crew and Railroad

Date: 1888
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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International RDF-402 Logging Truck

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Description: Workers loading logs onto an International RF-230 logging truck owned by George M. Pierson. A man is in a forklift behind the truck, and another man is sta...
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Men at Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posing standing on the snow-covered ground in front of a log building. In the foreground one man is sitting on a pile of logs.
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Logging Operation

Date: 1912
Description: Men using a large crane at an International Harvester logging operation.
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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.
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Madeline Island Logging Camp

Date: 1910
Description: Madeline Island logging camp near Big Bay. Men preparing logs for a building, with three log buildings in background.
Photograph

Men Sawing Pine Tree

Date: 1913
Description: Two lumberjacks pose with a saw which they're using to fell a pine tree.
Photograph

Logging with an International T-20 Crawler Tractor

Date: 1938
Description: Man using an International T-20 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) in a logging operation. Original caption reads: "F.J. Jacks of Tunica, Mississippi is known a...
Photograph

Logging with an International TD-18 Crawler Tractor

Date: 1940
Description: A man operating an International TD-18 Diesel TracTractor (crawler tractor) in a logging operation. The tractor was owned by the Pacific National Lumber Co...
Photograph

Logging with an International TD-18 Crawler Tractor

Date: 1940
Description: Three Men with an International TD-18 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) in forest. The tractor was owned by Wells and Allen, and was equipped with a Carco winc...
Photograph

Men and Pile of Logs Near the Spanish River

Date: 05 1939
Description: Men with an International TD-35 Diesel TracTracTor (crawler tractor) owned by A.C. Duval. Another man stands on a large pile of logs with a pole in his han...
Photograph

T-20 TracTracTor

Date: 1937
Description: Men haul logs in a forest using an International T-20 TracTracTor (crawler tractor). Original caption states: "Owner, Frank Knaeble, working five miles sou...
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...
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Cutting Christmas Trees for Market

Date: 1895
Description: A group of loggers at work in the woods with horses and a team of oxen. The men are cutting down fir trees to eventually be sold at market.
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Men Loading Logs onto Truck

Date: 1947
Description: Two men load logs from a clearing onto the bed of an International KB-5 Pulpwood Special truck owned by the Johnson-Manville Corporation. The truck had a 1...
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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.

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