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Filter: Subject of lumberjacks
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Sunday morning in a lumber camp bunk house. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Ten men sitting and standing around tables set with dishes and food in the dining room of the Vinette logging camp. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Log sorting operation on a river in Northern Wisconsin. Men stand on floating logs and maneuver them using cant hooks. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Loggers known as "river pigs" round up stray logs with pikes and peaveys at Place's Rapids. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of loggers posing with logs piled on horse-drawn sleds. Caption reads: "Logging, Athens, Wis." |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Four men from a logging crew posing standing in the snow with teams of horses and oxen. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Lumber camp group, W.H. Rogers Lumber Co., near Nashville. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | With ax in hand, Wallace Rumsey is standing on a gigantic fallen tree. Caption reads: "Wallace — Chopper." |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Men in bateaux for the Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company's log drive on the Chippewa River at Jim Falls. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A cutting crew of three men posing in the woods with a work horse next to felled trees. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Lumberjacks posing together in a bunkhouse at Ole Emerson's lumber camp. There are lanterns hanging from the ceiling. Two of the men are holding fiddles (v... |
| Date: | 08 1905 |
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| Description: | Donald Holt is carrying a log on his shoulder. Caption reads: "Doing His Share." Page heading reads "Lakewood. August 1905." The caption on a nearby photo... |
| Date: | 10 23 1909 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Scene Near Rice Lake, Wis." Five lumberjacks pose with a load of logs on a sled pulled by horses. Two skids lean against the logs. Th... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A copy of an older photograph of a logging scene. In the foreground a man is holding the reins of a pair of horses, another man is standing beside him; beh... |
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