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Book or Pamphlet

Best Tractors for Loggers

Date: 1925
Description: Interior page of a pamphlet advertising the Best tractor for loggers. The text reads: "It is in getting the logs from the woods to the pond or mill that gr...
Print

Historyland's Logging Camp Cook Shanty Menu

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Description: Menu of daily meat specials under the heading "Come And Get It!" from the Logging Camp Cook Shanty restaurant at Historyland. On the left is a black and wh...
Photograph

Businessmen Visiting Logging Crew

Date: 1912
Description: View from shoreline over tree branches of three businessmen visiting a logging crew on the Wisconsin River. One businessman sits on a boat while two others...
Photograph

Loggers at a Logging Camp

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of loggers at a logging camp. Snow is on the ground, and horses are standing in the back near log buildings.
Photograph

Outdoor Portrait of Two Loggers

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Description: Two men are standing in the snow at a logging camp. In the background are railroad tracks, and two pigs foraging around buildings.
Photograph

Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men, women and children standing on the snow-covered ground in front of a log building. Some of the men are posed holding logging tools, and two o...
Photograph

Men in front of Peter's Shoe Store

Date: 1912
Description: Men line up on the porch of "Peter's" shoe store. The store was likely at or near an International Harvester logging camp or sawmill.
Photograph

Logging with International Truck

Date: 1947
Description: Three-quarter side view of a man driving an International KB-5 Pulpwood Special heavily loaded with logs through a wooded area. The truck was owned by John...
Photograph

Logging Crew with Cut Wood

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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.
Photograph

Logging Crew Breaking to Eat

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Description: A few dozen men stand on and around a sandy path surrounded by low shrubbery. They are wearing work clothes, and some of them are carrying bowls filled wit...
Photograph

Logging Truck Scene

Date: 1932
Description: Two men stand next to a truck with a trailer full of snowy lumber, and more lumber in the background.
Photograph

Log Transport

Date: 1940
Description: Two men are loading logs onto the bed of an International D-Line truck. A forest and mountain are in the background.
Map or Atlas

Douglas County, Wisconsin

Date: 1911
Description: Shows roads, railroads, street railways, abandoned logging railroads, rural mail routes, platted land, state forest reserves, and parts of Burnett County, ...
Photograph

M. R. L. Company Log Marks

Date: 09 02 1908
Description: A list of log marks (symbols) dated "9/2/08".
Postcard

View from the Site of Norway Spring

Date: 1912
Description: This view is looking northeast from the site of Norway Springs at the north end of Trout Lake in the spring. In the foreground are tree stumps; in the back...
Map or Atlas

Title Page: Atlas of the Eight Counties of Forest, Florence, Iron, Langlade, Lincoln, Oneida, Price, Vilas

Date: 1969
Description: This atlas consists of nine maps that show historic settlements, roads, archaeological features, logging, and railroads in Wisconsin counties. The maps are...
Photograph

Downhill Haul of Logs

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Description: View down snow-covered hill towards five men posing on or next to a haul of logs on a sled, which are being pulled by a team of four horses through trees.
Photograph

Blue Heron Rookery — Long Lake

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Description: View of several bare trees, some of which have nests in them.
Photograph

Goar and Stinson Log Driving Crew

Date: 1902
Description: The Goar and Stinson log driving crew on the Clam River.
Photograph

Chippewa River Log Marks

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Description: A few typical Chippewa River log marks, including bark marks and end stamps.

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