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| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Log driving crew for the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company. Crew members are in the process of breaking a jam at the Big Eddy. One of the men is carrying a yo... |
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| Description: | View from raft towards the sternwheel rafter, Juniata, pushing a raft of lumber. The crew is posing on deck. The boat was later named the Red Win... |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a man on a raft pulling down on the end of a hand hewn log, most likely the oar, while a second man stands by and watches. |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a man on a raft holding the end of a hand hewn log, probably an oar, while three men watch in the background. Two of the men are standing ... |
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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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| Description: | Stereograph of a man standing in rowboat at the edge of a raft. There is a rope leading from the raft to the rowboat. |
| Date: | 09 01 1882 |
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| Description: | View looking up towards the special train of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad comprised of 24 freight cars loaded with lumber and other ... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Logs floating down the river beneath the bridge on the Chippewa River. On the far shoreline are billboards. One advertises for "J.R. Sharp Hardware." Men a... |
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| Description: | Group of four men and a girl standing on the opposite shoreline by the falls, with probably the Charter Oak Mill on the right on Squaw Creek. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of photographer Henry Hamilton Bennett pulling an oar on a Wisconsin raft. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of photographer Henry Hamilton Bennett pulling an oar on a Wisconsin raft. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of several men working at dusk, knee deep in water attending to the raft. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the raft's crew. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | A man tying a rope around a log on a lumber raft. |
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| Description: | A view of the Alexander Stewart Lumber Company, at 502 3rd Street. Several men are fishing off the bridge/dam over the river. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of men unloading lumber off a raft. A man at the left loads lumber onto a horse-drawn wagon while a man in an apron holds the horses. There is ... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Ashley Bennett ("Cookie") who volunteered his services during the float, and the cook Mike Lane, on the Arpin fleet of lumber rafts. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of four raftsmen shipping an oar in the Dells. |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a man standing on the back of a raft holding a hand-hewned oar. The raft is passing under a wooden bridge. A town, including a church, are i... |
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