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| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Loggers posing on narrow-gauge railroad tracks with a railroad velocipede and cant hook near Saddle Mound, a large hill that dominates the local area in Ja... |
| Date: | 05 04 1886 |
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| Description: | Edward P. Allis Reliance Works under the protection of the Wisconsin State Militia during the first general labor strike. The strike is also known as the ... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | A fleet of rafts on the Wisconsin River below the Kilbourn dam. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline towards Indian log drivers, two in a bateau, and one man standing on the bank of the Chippewa River. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Dining room, probably at D. Sullivan's lumber camp. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a large logging crew posing outdoors in the snow at their camp in front of a log building. One of the men is playing a fiddle or a violin... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view of several groups of men on rafts loaded with felled trees. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a posed scene showing a woman milking a cow as two other women stand waiting at an open barn door. On the left a man at a hand-pump is behin... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Lumberjacks hauling logs with several teams of oxen. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | A fleet of rafts on the Wisconsin River below the Kilbourn dam. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Two lumber rafts with men aboard floating down the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view of five men on a raft working a Spanish windlass. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of men unloading lumber off a raft. A man at the left is loading lumber onto a horse-drawn wagon, while a man in an apron is holding the horses... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Three men on raft pulling in a grub. In the background are logs floating in the water, and a man carrying a log. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view of a man putting in a "Yankee" while another man is chopping a log with an axe. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Two men on raft putting in a twister. There is a rock wall formation in the background. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of men working on rafts. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of four raftsmen shipping an oar in the Dells. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of raftsmen shipping an oar. |
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