Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Log driving crew for the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company. Crew members are in the process of breaking a jam at the Big Eddy. One of the men is carrying a yo... |
Date: | 1907 |
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Description: | Loggers at dinner in the woods north of Glen Flora. The man in the center is filing his saw. |
Date: | 1880 |
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Description: | Two lumbermen posing with a two-man crosscut saw they are using on a fallen tree trunk, cutting the pine into manageable sizes for hauling. |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Men posed with a team of four oxen harnessed to pull a loaded logging sled. |
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Description: | Loggers posed between two large stacks of logs near Antigo, perhaps the camp of D. Sulivan. |
Date: | 1911 |
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Description: | Carvers at work on the Karl Bitter sculpture for the fourth Wisconsin State Capitol (third in Madison). Between 1911 and 1913, a group of stone cutters (ma... |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | Men harvesting ice at the Conklin Ice House on Lake Mendota. The men are using pike poles to slide the blocks to the conveyor and U-shaped tools to split p... |
Date: | 1888 |
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Description: | A logging crew of the Upham Lumber Company, together with the company's locomotive, "Old Vanderbilt," formerly the Wisconsin Central Railroad's Engine No #... |
Date: | 1907 |
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Description: | Wisconsin Central locomotive No #50 and pile driver No #2 working near Owen. Men stand on and around the tracks. |
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Description: | Brakeman Clarence Commingore (left) and Philip C. Haag on Wisconsin Central Railroad's caboose No #171. The shield caboose markers were exclusive with the ... |
Date: | 07 20 1886 |
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Description: | Group of people posing in the rail yard of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, & Omaha Railway. |
Date: | 07 21 1884 |
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Description: | Group portrait of Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway employees taken outside the railroad's Milwaukee shop. Most of the men appear to be blue collar wor... |
Date: | 1913 |
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Description: | Two lumberjacks pose with a saw which they're using to fell a pine tree. |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Sigvart Solbrg, (left) and Anton Follstad, (right) sawing a tree down during winter. |
Date: | 1887 |
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Description: | "Kearsarge and Alabama: Hauling Down the Flag." A color lithograph published by L. Prang & Co. of Boston. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Logging crew standing on planks and logs possibly in a sorting works on the Yellow River. One man holds a ledger and the others hold long cant hooks. |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Loggers known as "river pigs" round up stray logs with pikes and peaveys at Place's Rapids. |
Date: | 05 1909 |
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Description: | A log driving crew at Eagle Rapids Dam on the Chippewa River. Bottom of print reads: "Eagle Rapids Jam. May, 18-09." |
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