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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.
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Horses with a Go-Devil

Date: 1910
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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Men Sawing Pine Tree

Date: 1913
Description: Two lumberjacks pose with a saw which they're using to fell a pine tree.
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Place's Rapids on the Peshtigo River

Date: 1905
Description: Loggers known as "river pigs" round up stray logs with pikes and peaveys at Place's Rapids.
Postcard

Logging

Date: 1908
Description: Colorized postcard of loggers posing with logs piled on horse-drawn sleds. Caption reads: "Logging, Athens, Wis."
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Young Lumberjacks

Date: 1920
Description: Two timber sawyers standing posed with their tools in a forest. Both men wear heavy mittens, and the man on the left is carrying a saw across his left shou...
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Log Driving Crew

Date: 05 1909
Description: A log driving crew at Eagle Rapids Dam on the Chippewa River. Bottom of print reads: "Eagle Rapids Jam. May, 18-09."
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Stony Hill Logs at Brule

Date: 1960
Description: Several men are working with logs and equipment in Brule River State Forest.
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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...
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Sorting Logs in Northern Wisconsin

Date: 1900
Description: Log sorting operation on a river in Northern Wisconsin. Men stand on floating logs and maneuver them using cant hooks.
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...
Postcard

Scene Near Rice Lake

Date: 10 23 1909
Description: Text on front reads: "Scene Near Rice Lake, Wis." Five lumberjacks pose with a load of logs on a sled pulled by horses. Two skids lean against the logs. Th...

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