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Dam and Lumbermill

Date: 1900
Description: View of the Wausau mill and dam next to the river, where logs were first sorted.
Photograph

Spring Log Running

Date: 1904
Description: Logs floating down the Chippewa River in front of the "Big Mill".
Photograph

Sorting Logs

Date: 1900
Description: Log pond with two lumberjacks walking on the floating logs and sorting them in the Peshtigo River area.
Photograph

Log Running on the Chippewa River

Date: 1904
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...
Photograph

Aerial View of Mississippi River

Date: 1907
Description: Aerial view of the Mississippi River with log rafts.
Photograph

Peshtigo Log Jam

Date: 1907
Description: Loggers breaking up a log jam in the Peshtigo River area.
Book or Pamphlet

"Rambo" and "Musser"

Date: 1903
Description: Drawing of the "Rambo" and "Musser" transporting a log raft on the Mississippi River.
Photograph

Log Driving Crew

Date: 1905
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...
Photograph

Brunette Falls on the Chippewa River

Date: 1908
Description: Brunette Falls on the Chippewa River. Several logs are jammed on a rock formation in the river.
Photograph

Ole Emerson's Lumber Property

Date: 1904
Description: Winter scene with lumber workers hauling a large log with horses.
Photograph

Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Station in Elton

Date: 1905
Description: Chicago and Northwestern railroad staton in Elton, with lumber stacked on the ground.
Photograph

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

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."
Photograph

Sluicing Logs Below Long Lake Dam

Date: 1905
Description: View of logs gathering in water just past a sluicing gate. Three people are standing on top of the dam.
Photograph

Loggers in Bateaux

Date: 1900
Description: Log driving crew on river in five bateaux. In the background on the left is a bridge.
Photograph

Log Jam on Wisconsin River

Date: 1900
Description: Two women and one man in street clothes and wearing hats posing among the logs of a large log jam on the Wisconsin River.
Postcard

Raft Scene & Pontoon Bridge

Date: 12 07 1907
Description: Elevated photographic postcard view of a paddle steamer towing rafts loaded with logs through an open pontoon bridge on the Mississippi River. Caption read...
Postcard

Half Moon Lake and Island

Date: 1900
Description: Black and white elevated view of Half Moon Lake and Island. Logs are in a boom in the lake. Caption reads: "Half Moon Lake and Island," and "Eau Claire, Wi...
Photograph

Alma on Mississippi River

Date: 1902
Description: Elevated view of the city and the Mississippi River from the bluffs above the city. Photograph was taken after 1902 when the Buffalo County Training School...

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