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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of lumber raft and workers on the Chippewa River. In the background on the right are dwellings. |
| 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: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Group of men posing in the dining room at August Mason's lumber camp. Three men are playing stringed instruments. Posters are displayed on the wall behind ... |
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| Description: | Two men preparing a meal in a lumber camp shanty or bunkhouse. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Sunday morning in a lumber camp bunk house. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Log jam on the St. Croix River at the Head of the Dalles. The jam was about five miles long, and 50,000,000 board feet of white pine was piled up. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Fourth Capitol and dome under construction, while the north wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol remains standing on the right. T... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline over river towards the town. |
| 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: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Locomotive No. 75. Class H. Built 1850 by Schnectady Locomotive Works. Men are posed on and around the locomotive. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Nine men arrive at Fort William by canoe. Fort William, also called Kaministiguia, was the Hudson's Bay fur trading post. Men are standing along the opposi... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A logging crew poses inside their bunk house. In the upper left corner, one of the loggers holds a cat. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Construction of the north wing of the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Workmen stand atop and in front of the remnants of the last remaining wing, the North Wing, of the third Wisconsin State Capitol building. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Lumbermen in their bunk house at Ole Emerson's lumber camp. Several of them have pipes in their mouths and their socks are hanging to dry. |
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| Description: | View up logging railroad tracks running through the woods. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Using a team of two horses, men stack logs at McCann's lumber camp landing. The camp was in Couderay in Sawyer County on the line of the Chicago, Milwauke... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Roddis Lumber and Veneer Company locomotive Number 1, loaded with logs and flanked by large piles of logs. |
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| Description: | Holmes Sons logging railroad ready to start for landing. Three steam engines pictured. Primary engine pulls flatbed cars loaded with logs. |
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