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| Description: | Forest destroyed by destructive logging followed by a fire. The right-hand side of the image shows where soil erosion has begun. |
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| Description: | Man driving Hough Payloader, clearing land and loading demolition debris. Hough became a subsidiary of International Harvester Company. |
| Date: | 10 29 1937 |
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| Description: | Two boys standing among stumps in northern Wisocnsin cutover land. T. 34N R. 9E on Highway 17. Trees cut approximately 40 years before photograph was taken... |
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| Description: | Carter's Siding, a small railroad depot in "cutover" country, showing strong evidence of why formerly forested regions of northern Wisconsin were so named. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Madeline Island logging camp near Big Bay. Men preparing logs for a building, with three log buildings in background. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Mosher family standing in front of the J.F. Mosher residence. From the left are J.F. Mosher, daughters Celia Belle, Rhoda Adelaide, and Bertha May, son Her... |
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| Description: | Cutover land near a lumber mill. Logs and boards are stacked near the building in the background. |
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| Description: | Marker at the Uhrenholdt Memorial Forest established by farmer Soren J. Uhrenholdt on land that was part of northern Wisconsin's "Cutover Region." A leader... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Emerson Brothers Sawmill with large piles of cut trees in the foreground. |
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| Description: | View of cut-over land to be cleared for farming. |
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| Description: | A group of men remove a large stump with the help of horses and a winch on the family farm. |
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| Description: | Charred stumps and cut trunks of trees in the foreground with unburned forest in the distance. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View over slashed timber towards the edge of the defenses, with camouflaged blockhouse in the background. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Group posed in front of the first house built in Kennedy. |
| Date: | 05 1911 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | The first forestry building at Trout Lake Headquarters. It served the crew for eating and sleeping while they were clearing for the nursery site in progres... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of multiple structures in winter, with bare trees and stumps among them. A wigwam/wiigiwaam is visible in the distance, and a tipi is closer. A log st... |
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