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| 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: | 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: | 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. |
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| Description: | Three men pose with a team of oxen hauling a log on the Spaulding holdings in Clark County |
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| Description: | Loggers posed between two large stacks of logs near Antigo, perhaps the camp of D. Sulivan. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Lumberjacks hauling logs with several teams of oxen. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | The Goar and Stinson log driving crew on the Clam River. |
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| Description: | A few typical Chippewa River log marks, including bark marks and end stamps. |
| 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: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a log jam near the Dalles on the St. Croix River. Caption at bottom reads: "St. Croix Riv. and Bridge, St. Croix Falls." |
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| Description: | Log jam, perhaps on the Black River or the Chippewa River in the Black River Falls area. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company log driving crew on the Chippewa River. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Log jam at Big Eddy on the Chippewa River during the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company log drive. There is a bridge in the distance, and trees are along the s... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | A collection of end stamp patterns used to identify the owners of logs, as exhibited in the Paul Bunyan Camp Museum in Carson Park. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with lumber workers hauling a large log with horses. |
| 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: | 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: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Crew of river drivers moving logs off of rocks below a dam probably on the Wisconsin River. |
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