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Group of People at Logging Camp

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Description: Elevated outdoor group portrait of men assembled at a logging camp. Horses are on the left, and a locomotive hauling cars of logs is in the background.
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Logging Scene

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Description: A group of men are standing around a large load of logs being hauled by a team of four horses.
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Logging Scene

Date: 1890
Description: Outdoor group portrait of loggers with two teams of oxen.
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Clearing Land

Date: 1920
Description: Four Native American men posing while clearing land for farming. One man is standing atop a stump which has been pulled from the ground. Another man is hol...
Postcard

Logging Scene

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Description: Two loggers and two draft horses standing near a tree stump. One man is on a sled with a log.
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"Old Vanderbilt" Locomotive

Date: 1890
Description: Upham Lumber Company locomotive, "Old Vanderbilt," built by the Taunton Locomotive Works in 1847 from the New York providence and Boston Railroad where she...
Photograph

Trainload of Logs

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Description: Several men are posing among logs on the ground near a train engine, which has continuous track (caterpillar) wheels and is pulling a load of logs on sledg...
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On the Raft

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Description: Stereograph of men on a large raft on the Wisconsin River, with exposed, tree-lined rock formations on the shoreline in the background. Wanigans (shelters)...
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Wallace Rumsey Standing on Gigantic Fallen Tree

Date: 1900
Description: With ax in hand, Wallace Rumsey is standing on a gigantic fallen tree. Caption reads: "Wallace — Chopper."
Photograph

Logging

Date: 1900
Description: A copy of an older photograph of a logging scene. In the foreground a man is holding the reins of a pair of horses, another man is standing beside him; beh...

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