Date: | 1900 |
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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. |
Date: | 1906 |
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Description: | Horse-drawn load of 6000 ft. of pine logs, accompanied by a cornet player and two women, at the Weinkauf & Co. timber lands. |
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Description: | Logging camp with numerous bobsleds loaded with logs. Two men and two women are posed sitting in a sleigh pulled by a team of two horses in front of a wood... |
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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... |
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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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Description: | Two men, two women, a girl, and a dog posed standing next to a man displaying two oxen. In the background are two men posed sitting on a wagon loaded with ... |
Date: | 1890 |
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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... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | A woman and a man are standing on a hill overlooking a large lumber raft (allegedly the last of its kind) traveling down the Mississippi River. There is a ... |
Date: | 1924 |
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Description: | View towards a man standing on the left front side of a locomotive with his hands in his pockets. Smoke is spewing from the train's smokestack. There are l... |
The Industry That Changed the State |
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Discover how the logging industry shaped Wisconsin's economy and culture from the 19th century to the present. |
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Description: | We tend to forget that at the time of the destruction of the forests, an emergency situation existed. The need for lumber for the building up of the... |
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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... |
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