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Saw Filer and Logging Crew

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Description: Logging crew and horses posed in snow.
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Logging Crew with Loaded Sleds

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Description: Logging crew with two large loads of logs on horse-drawn sleds ready for the mill. Foreman, Mike Baltus, stands in the foreground. Also pictured are A. Cli...
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Hot Lunch Sleigh

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Description: Lumber camp cooking crew at the hot lunch sled in the woods. There is a tent set up in the background, and a horse hitched to the sled on the left. Foreman...
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Water Tank on a Sleigh

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Description: Two men standing on a water tank sleigh used for icing logging roads. The sleigh is pulled by four horses. Foreman Mike Baltus stands in the snow at right....
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Skidding a Log

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Description: Man driving two horses which are skidding a log out of the woods to the logging road.
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Stacked Boards

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Description: Two men stand next to high stacks of boards in a lumber yard.
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Steam Hauler with Log Sleighs

Date: 01 06 1918
Description: Lumber crew posed with a steam hauler and several sleds loaded with logs. The foreman's sleigh pulled by a horse is in the foreground. Possibly foreman, Mi...
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Auburndale Camp

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Description: Elevated view of logging crew posed outside a log cabin in winter. Several horses are at the back of the group. The foreman, Mike Baltus, is possibly at fr...
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Sunday at the Lumber Camp

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Description: Elevated view of lumberjacks joined by their wives and children on a Sunday at the Auburndale Lumber Camp.
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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.

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