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Logging Scene

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Description: View towards men standing and sitting near a wooden structure, perhaps a sawmill.
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Logging Scene

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Description: View across snow towards men, women and children. Some people in the group are standing in the snow on the ground, and the other people are standing on top...
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Men Posing at Lumber Yard

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Description: View across field of scrub grass towards a group of men, some in work clothes and other men wearing suits, standing in a lumberyard at a logging camp. Ther...
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Threshing Crew

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Description: View of a threshing crew with their steam-powered tractor posing in front of a barn.
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Building the Main Railroad Line; Black River Falls to Vaudreuil

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Description: Elevated view of workmen building the main railroad line from Black River Falls to Vaudreuil.
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McKenna Sawmill

Date: 1890
Description: View of the McKenna Sawmill. Workers are posing in front.
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Copy Photograph of Two Men and a Thresher CROP

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Description: Copy photograph of two men posing next to a thresher. A haystack is in the background.
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Outdoor Group Portrait of Unidentified Workmen and a Rabbit

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of a group of workmen, probably at a lumber camp. The man sitting in the front in the center is holding a rabbit. A building is in t...
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Group Portrait of Lumberjacks

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of lumberjacks. Some of the men in the background appear to be standing on the roof of a log building. Two dogs are in the foregroun...
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Copy Photograph; Logging

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Description: Copy photograph of logs being hauled by oxen. A group of seven lumberjacks are standing among the logs.
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Brick Structure Under Construction

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Description: A group of workers are posing next to a brick structure under construction. Snow is on the ground.
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Railroad Station

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Description: View from a railroad platform and railroad tracks. A locomotive with railroad cars is parked on the far track. One man is standing next to the locomotive; ...
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Group of People at Logging Camp

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Description: Elevated outdoor group portrait of men assembled at a logging camp. Horses are on the left, and a locomotive hauling cars of logs is in the background.
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Group Harvesting

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Description: Outdoor view of men and women sitting and standing in a field harvesting a crop.
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Logging Scene

Date: 1890
Description: Outdoor group portrait of loggers with two teams of oxen.
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Logging Scene

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Description: A group of men are standing around a large load of logs being hauled by a team of four horses.
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Horses Pulling Plows

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Description: Elevated view over wooden scaffolding towards several plows on a road pulled by horses. In the background are tree-covered hills.
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Workman at Jackson County Bank

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Description: Outdoor view of a man posing standing on a tall ladder propped up against a brick building identified as the Jackson County Bank at the intersection of Fir...
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Two Roofers Spreading Tar

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Description: Outdoor view of two men standing on top of a building. Identified as probably the top of the Jackson County Bank from the photography studio of Van Schaick...
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Men Working on a Roof

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Description: View from roof towards two men working on the roof of another building.

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