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Log Chopping Contest at the Logging Congress
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A man is standing on top of a braced wood block. He is bending over as he swings his ax at the wood block on which he is standing. A crowd of people are watching from the stands behind him.
September 1976
Wisconsin. Department of Natural Resources (creator)
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