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Raftsman's Series No. 1404; Laying Up For Wind And Drying Out

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Description: Group of eight men sitting on shore around a fire, with the river and a boat in the background.
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Raftsman's Series No. 1434: Breasting An Oar - Just To Steady Her

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Description: Stereograph of a man on raft holding end of oar at chest level. There is rope coiled in the foreground.
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Buildings Along Levee

Date: 07 1908
Description: View along a levee, with buildings on the left. Dunbar's Hall, the large building in the foreground, burned down during the winter of 1907-1908. Five men a...
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Raftsman's Series Unnumbered: Going Through the Rapids

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of a man on the end of the raft as he prepares to pass through the water's rough rapids.
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Raftsman's Series Unnumbered: Rigging a Rope

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of a man as he rigs a rope around a log on a lumber raft.
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Raftsman's Series Unnumbered: Men Turning Logs

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of a group of men on a lumber raft holding a log vertical while other men push another log around it, creating a make-shift drill.
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At the Beach

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Description: A woman and three children, all wearing hats, dresses, and shorts, are at the beach, playing in the sand. Two of the children have toy buckets. Behind them...
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River Drivers Lunch

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Description: Log driving crew sitting down for lunch on the bank of a river (probably the Trap River or Rib River). There is a batteau at the water's edge, and one man ...
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Sugar River Below Dam

Date: 1898
Description: View of the Sugar River below a dam. A man stands in the water fishing. Two others stand on the bank at left and one is seated on the dam. Three sticks are...
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Seven Men Holding Fish at Nature Lovers Paradise

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Description: View of seven men wearing pants, boots, belts and long-sleeved button-up shirts holding a box and three stringers of fish they caught. The wooden boats in ...
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Stopping for Lunch

Date: 1907
Description: View down shoreline towards the travelers pausing in their canoe journey to have lunch on the riverbank below Gordon Dam.
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Wannigan Boat

Date: 1907
Description: A view of a wannigan boat filled with supplies floating on the St. Croix River. There are several people on deck.
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Camps

Date: 1907
Description: The travelers camp near the Northern Pacific Ridge. Canoes are docked at the edge of the river, and a pile of logs are in the foreground.
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Kugler and The Gang

Date: 1914
Description: From left to right: Clay, Jack, and Edwin Kugler are next to a canoe on the shore of Pine Lake.
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Uprooted Tree

Date: 1911
Description: Carl Greene and Bill Marr posing and standing with their arms spread wide at the base of a large, uprooted tree at the shoreline. Their canoes are in the w...
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Canoe Instruction

Date: 1935
Description: View across water towards Girl Scouts in five canoes setting out from shore on Rice Lake at Camp Hickory Hill. There is a temporary shade structure and woo...
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Poling a Canoe

Date: 1940
Description: River guide Bev Dennis is poling a canoe upstream through "The Falls" of the upper Bois Brule River. There is an armchair style seat in the front of the ca...

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