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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

Logging Scene

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Description: View across snow towards men, women and children. Some people in the group are standing in the snow on the ground, and the other people are standing on top...
Photograph

Raftsman's Series No. 1433: A Cold Morning

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Description: Stereograph of five people huddled under blankets on a raft. The shadow of a camera and the photographer are in the foreground.
Photograph

Lone Rock From Below #109

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Description: Elevated view of several people rafting on a flat bottom boat near Lone Rock. There is a large raft, perhaps for logging transportation, tied up at Lone Ro...
Photograph

Log Jam

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Description: View of a log jam on a river. Caption on back of stereograph reads, "Dells of St. Croix, from series of Minnesota Views." There is a group of people posed ...
Postcard

"The Old Way" & the New Way of Hauling Logs to Mill

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Description: View towards a train hauling many flatbed cars of logs. There is an inset photograph of a person on top of a stack of logs on a sleigh being pulled by an o...
Photograph

Location Shooting for "Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man"

Date: 1961
Description: A man standing on a log cart, holding the reins for a horse team. Other people are in the foreground and background. Shopfronts for Tiny's Saloon and Brigg...
Postcard

12800 Ft. of Lumber

Date: 1909
Description: Team of horses driving through Antigo hauling 12800 Ft. of lumber. Three men and one driver are sitting on top of the large pile of wood as a crowd of peop...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 207-215

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Description: The log who was made King of Logs is here entombed
eight round, ten long

For his design, the strengthened forest
capriciously outgrew them all...
Photograph

Arpin Lumber Co. Sawmill

Date: 1890
Description: 90,000 feet of pine logs floating in the storage/sorting pond at the Arpin Lumber Company sawmill. The sawmill and other buildings are in the background. O...
Photograph

Logjam on the Wisconsin River

Date: 1907
Description: Slightly elevated view of a river with choppy waves. The shoreline is rocky on the left and a man is sitting on one of the rocks. Further down the river on...
Photograph

Group of People at Logging Camp

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Description: Elevated outdoor group portrait of men assembled at a logging camp. Horses are on the left, and a locomotive hauling cars of logs is in the background.
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Group of People on Rocky Shorline of River

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Description: View from shoreline of two women posed on logs on rocky shoreline by the river. Four or five young boys sit on the rocks on the left. There is a railroad b...

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