Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | View from shoreline over river towards the town. |
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Description: | Forest destroyed by destructive logging followed by a fire. The right-hand side of the image shows where soil erosion has begun. |
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Description: | Knapp-Stout and Company Sawmill on the Red Cedar River, with dam and logs in the foreground. |
Date: | 02 1914 |
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Description: | Two men dressed in business attire stand in the snow in front of logs cut as part of W.L.L. & T. logging operations. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | The town buildings in Irma. Many stumps and milled logs are in the foreground. |
Date: | 1904 |
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Description: | Logs floating down the river beneath the bridge on the Chippewa River. On the far shoreline are billboards. One advertises for "J.R. Sharp Hardware." Men a... |
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Description: | Carter's Siding, a small railroad depot in "cutover" country, showing strong evidence of why formerly forested regions of northern Wisconsin were so named. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Madeline Island logging camp near Big Bay. Men preparing logs for a building, with three log buildings in background. |
Date: | 12 12 1937 |
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Description: | A man pulls logs with an International T-20 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) along a dirt road in a snow-covered field. |
Date: | 1945 |
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Description: | Slightly elevated view of a man using a specially outfitted International tractor to work among felled trees in a wooded area. The original caption reads: ... |
Date: | 1945 |
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Description: | View of a man using a specially outfitted diesel tractor to haul a trailer loaded with cut logs. The original caption reads: "Two specially fitted tractors... |
Date: | 1947 |
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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... |
Date: | 1949 |
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Description: | Men load logs onto the back of an International KBS-6 Pulpwood Special truck in a wooded area. The original caption reads: "The International KBS-6 pulpwoo... |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | An International L-210 truck hauls a Peerless trailer loaded with Hemlock logs. The truck is parked along the side of a road with a wooded area, automobile... |
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Description: | View of a man standing in front of a huge wooden stump called the McKinley stump which is housed under a small gazebo. A sign relates that the tree was cut... |
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Description: | Logging crew with two large loads of logs on horse-drawn sleds ready for the mill. Foreman, Mike Baltus, stands in the foreground. Also pictured are A. Cli... |
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Description: | Man driving two horses which are skidding a log out of the woods to the logging road. |
Date: | 01 06 1918 |
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Description: | Lumber crew posed with a steam hauler and several sleds loaded with logs. The foreman's sleigh pulled by a horse is in the foreground. Possibly foreman, Mi... |
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Description: | Group of men posed with 13,260 feet of cut lumber on a horse-drawn sled in winter. Some of the men hold cant hooks. |
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