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Loggers Posing on Railroad Tracks

Date: 1896
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...
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Logging Camp Crew

Date: 1875
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...
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Menominee Child

Date: 1909
Description: A Menominee child, probably photographed on the reservation near Keshena and Neopit, Wisconsin. He is standing outside in front of a log cabin, and an axe ...
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Model of John Naset's First Residence

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Description: Model of the house John Naset built for himself in the spring of 1865 in Christiana.
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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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Potawatomi Family

Date: 1920
Description: Potawatomi family standing in front of a log cabin. Elders identified the woman in the center as Mrs. Frank Young, and the man on the right as community le...
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Basket Making

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Description: View of old man making baskets and an old woman sewing outside of a log cabin. Other handmade wooden items appear throughout the image and tools hang on th...
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Portrait in Wood

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Description: Clam Lake artist Jerry Holter carving a wooden portrait of John A. Lavine, a Wisconsin newspaper publisher.
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Newport

Date: 02 1924
Description: Three men pose on logs as a fourth walks toward them; there are axes and snowshoes on the ground. A large log barn, outhouse, and other buildings are in th...
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Logging Camp

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Description: Elevated view of men posed standing in a snow-covered logging camp. One man is holding a cat, and there is a dog standing nearby. The photographers wagon i...
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group portrait of men posed standing, sitting and holding tools in a snow-covered logging camp in front of several teams of oxen and horses. One man holds ...
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group portrait of men, women. children and dogs posed standing, sitting and holding logging tools in a snow-covered logging camp in front of log buildings.
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Logging Camp

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Description: Elevated view of a group of men posed standing and holding logging tools in snow-covered logging camp in front of log buildings.
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posed holding logging tools while sitting and standing in front of and atop a log building.
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posed holding logging tools while sitting and standing on the snow-covered ground in front of a log building and the woods.
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posed holding logging tools while sitting and standing in a logging camp. Two men stand displaying two teams of two horses, and one man is dis...
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posed standing and holding logging tools while standing in a line on the snow-covered ground in front of two log buildings.
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posed standing in a snow-covered logging camp in front of a log building.
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posed standing and sitting on the snow-covered ground by an empty sled and in front of log buildings, several horse teams and a team of oxen.
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group portrait of men posed holding logging tools, while standing and sitting on log benches. There is snow on the ground. On the left behind the group is ...

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