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| Description: | Workers loading pine logs in northern Wisconsin when there was still virgin timber for logging. |
| 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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| Description: | Two workers are posing in front of a steam engine carrying logs for an International Harvester sawmill. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Steam crane loading lumber onto a railroad car for use at an International Harvester sawmill. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Two workers perched on a steam locomotive pulling railroad cars loaded with logs. The coal car bears the name "Deering Southwestern Railway." The railway w... |
| 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 #... |
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| Description: | William Rogalsky's railroad tie mill, showing workers and logs ready to be milled. Photographer Charles J. Ruppenthal was known to have been active in Tige... |
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| Description: | Three men stand in the snow in front of the Wisconsin & Northern Railroad engine #2 (the second locomotive with this number) in the woods on the Menominee ... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of the Fairchild & Northeastern steam locomotive pulling a load of logs over the Black River bridge near Greenwood. A man is standing o... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | The Fairchild and Northwestern locomotive the "Gracie May," named for Gracie May Foster. Several people pose near the locomotive, including Robert Holmes a... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Two men are standing on a log suspended from a steam powered crane at an International Harvester logging operation. Large logs are in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Mogul 8-16 tractor used to power a lifting outfit to load large logs onto freight car. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Mogul tractor is used to power a lifting outfit to load large logs onto freight car. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of Weeds Mill. The mill has smokestacks and logs piled on the pond shoreline waiting for processing. A steam locomotive is on th... |
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| Description: | We tend to forget that at the time of the destruction of the forests, an emergency situation existed. The need for lumber for the building up of the... |
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| Description: | Train-load of logs with wood-burning Heisher geared locomotive and train crew. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Yawkey-Bissell Lumber Co. main line logging railroad tracks “through virgin pine timber” south of Trout Lake. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View across stacks of logs towards a group of men posing near or on a logging train. There are two teams of oxen near the stacked logs, and snow is on the ... |
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