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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of lumber raft and workers on the Chippewa River. In the background on the right are dwellings. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Log driving crew for the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company. Crew members are in the process of breaking a jam at the Big Eddy. One of the men is carrying a yo... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from steep shoreline of a log jam of about 150 million feet of logs, stopped at the piers of Pound, Halbert, and Co., which stood in about 40... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Log driving crew on river in five bateaux. In the background on the left is a bridge. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Log jam on the St. Croix River at the Head of the Dalles. The jam was about five miles long, and 50,000,000 board feet of white pine was piled up. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Log pond with two lumberjacks walking on the floating logs and sorting them in the Peshtigo River area. |
| 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: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Three barefoot boys stand on a pile of logs in the foreground looking across the river at a group of men working to free a log jam in the Big Eddy on the C... |
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| Description: | Dells of the St. Louis River, at the head of the falls. Log pile at the left hand side. Man with pole on right. |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a man on a raft pulling down on the end of a hand hewn log, most likely the oar, while a second man stands by and watches. |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a man on a raft holding the end of a hand hewn log, probably an oar, while three men watch in the background. Two of the men are standing ... |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a man on raft holding end of oar at chest level. There is rope coiled in the foreground. |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a man standing in rowboat at the edge of a raft. There is a rope leading from the raft to the rowboat. |
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| Description: | Several men on a raft going over the dam at Munger's Mill. There is a railroad bridge in the background. |
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| Description: | Wanigans tied to the banks of the St. Croix River among floating logs. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Logs move down the river, swirling with cross currents, resulting in a huge log jam. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Chippewa Falls. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Birds-eye drawing of Eau Claire depicts street names and street locations, houses, trees, bridges, piers, canals, railroads, and the Chippewa and Eau Clair... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Birds eye map of New London depicts street names and street locations, houses, trees, the bridge, Wolf River, and the bayou. At the bottom of the map, a re... |
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