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Lumber Camp Employees and Lumber

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Description: Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company Camp 15. Lumberjacks posed atop a sled load of logs, scaled at 13,562 board feet of lumber.
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Loggers Dining at Camp

Date: 1907
Description: Loggers at dinner in the woods north of Glen Flora. The man in the center is filing his saw.
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Lumberjacks with logs

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Description: Thirty-nine lumberers posed in front of a large stack of cut logs.
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Felling White Pine

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Description: Two lumberjacks pose at the base of a tree with a double-handled saw poised to cut.
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Peshtigo Log Jam

Date: 1907
Description: Loggers breaking up a log jam in the Peshtigo River area.
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Two Lumbermen with Saw

Date: 1880
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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Large Log Jam

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Description: Two men climb on a very large log jam.
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Loading Pine Logs

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Description: Workers loading pine logs in northern Wisconsin when there was still virgin timber for logging.
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Loggers Posed with Logs

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Description: Loggers posed between two large stacks of logs near Antigo, perhaps the camp of D. Sulivan.
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Loggers with Pine Tree

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Description: Two men with a saw stand by a large pine tree recently cut down.
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Logging Crew and Railroad

Date: 1888
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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Farmer Skidding Logs with Oxen

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Description: Farmer skidding logs with a team of oxen.
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Unloading Logs

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Description: Indians (Native Americans) unloading logs at the sawmill on the Menominee Reservation.
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Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company Log Driving Crew

Date: 1905
Description: Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company log driving crew on the Chippewa River.
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Logging on a Reservation

Date: 1909
Description: A group of Native American Indian loggers pose on piles of logs at the Courtes Oreilles Reservation.
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General Store and Post Office

Date: 1895
Description: General store and post office. Hans Johsnon, Newport's founder, is shown on the porch. Logs are stacked in the foreground. The post office was established ...
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Madeline Island Logging Camp

Date: 1910
Description: Madeline Island logging camp near Big Bay. Men preparing logs for a building, with three log buildings in background.
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Ole Emerson's Lumber Property

Date: 1904
Description: Winter scene with lumber workers hauling a large log with horses.
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Logging in the Blue Snow

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Description: Winter view with men logging on the Little Wolf River during the winter of the "blue snow". Logs are being decked on the ice and along the shore. Horse te...
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Horses with a Go-Devil

Date: 1910
Description: Two logging workers pose with their team of horses who are hitched to a go-devil, used for skidding logs to a road or landing.

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