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Trail Through Pines

Date: 1905
Description: Trail through the pines between Chippewa Falls and Long Lake, Chippewa County.
Postcard

Forest Rangers on Horseback

Date: 1912
Description: Two forest rangers are posing on horseback. Handwritten on front: "Forest Rangers at Trout Lake Station."
Magazine or Periodical

The Woods on Fire

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Description: Illustration of a man driving a horse-drawn wagon out of burning woodland.
Photograph

Cutting Crew in the Woods

Date: 1900
Description: A cutting crew of three men posing in the woods with a work horse next to felled trees.
Photograph

Building a Levee

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Description: View of the process of building a levee, including many horses and people. Caption reads: "Building the Levee near Port Gibson, Miss."
Photograph

Horses Hauling Logs

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Description: Horses pulling three logs on a wagon which has large wheels. A man is sitting on the wheel axle. In the background is a forest. Words have been scratched o...
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Logging Near Rice Lake

Date: 1872
Description: A group of men use a team of four horses to transport logs across snow-covered ground on a sled. Trees are in the background. Caption reads: "A Logging Sce...
Photograph

Joseph Seipold Pea Field

Date: 07 30 1895
Description: Two men stand in the five-foot tall pea field of Joseph Seipold three miles northeast of Antigo. Another man stands atop a horse-drawn wagon loaded with ha...
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Harvesting Red Clover

Date: 09 03 1895
Description: The Fred Judas family poses with their second crop of red clover, three miles south of Medford. With their rakes and mower, they are converting the red clo...
Photograph

Grant Bros. Onion Field in Bloom

Date: 07 16 1895
Description: A man stands in ten acres of flowering onion plants, planted for seed, in the Grant Bros. gardens. A horse pulls a buggy in the field in the background. Wo...
Photograph

Elevated View of Farm Buildings

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Description: Elevated view from hill of farmhouse, farm buildings, and fenced yards. People are posing standing near the bottom of the hill behind a fence in the center...
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Men Posing with Wagon Loaded with Logs

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Description: Three men are posing in a stand of pines. On the left two men are standing and holding axes, and on the right is a man posing sitting in a wagon loaded wit...
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Buggy on Forested Road

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Description: View down narrow, unpaved road surrounded by trees towards a man and woman in a buggy pulled by a single horse coming up the road. There is a fence on the ...
Photograph

Log Bridge Under Construction

Date: 1918
Description: View looking down log bridge which is in the process of being built by a group of soldiers. The bridge crosses over a gully. In the distance is a horse-dra...
Photograph

IH Passenger Bus en route in El Salvador

Date: 1968
Description: This photograph was likely taken by the International Harvester Overseas Division for promotional purposes. The original caption to the photograph reads: "...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 207-215

Date: 
Description: The log who was made King of Logs is here entombed
eight round, ten long

For his design, the strengthened forest
capriciously outgrew them all...
Photograph

U.S. Army Engineer Corps Mapping Section

Date: 1918
Description: View across snow towards a group of soldiers from the mapping section of the 310th United States Engineer Corps posing with horses and sleighs. In the back...
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Lumber Camp Group

Date: 1881
Description: Archie Young and crew at Yellow River camp.
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Trout Lake Nursery, First Furrow

Date: 05 1911
Description: View across field towards a number of men working to clear a field. There is a team of horses pulling a plow to create a furrow, with a pine forest in the ...
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Fire Fighting Crew

Date: 1912
Description: A wagon load of fire fighters is setting out or returning from the forest. The wagon has wooden wheels and is pulled by two horses. Only one of the men has...

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