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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. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | The town buildings in Irma. Many stumps and milled logs are in the foreground. |
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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: | 1945 |
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Description: | Slightly elevated view of a man using a specially outfitted International tractor to work among felled trees in a wooded area. The original caption reads: ... |
Date: | 1945 |
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Description: | View of a man using a specially outfitted diesel tractor to haul a trailer loaded with cut logs. The original caption reads: "Two specially fitted tractors... |
Date: | 1949 |
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Description: | Men load logs onto the back of an International KBS-6 Pulpwood Special truck in a wooded area. The original caption reads: "The International KBS-6 pulpwoo... |
Date: | 1908 |
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Description: | Emerson Brothers Sawmill with large piles of cut trees in the foreground. |
Date: | 1942 |
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Description: | A group of men load cut logs onto the back of an International truck in a wooded area. The writing on the truck cab reads: "W.I. Wilkie Lumber Co. Smithto... |
Date: | 1962 |
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Description: | An International D-405 truck owned by the Dougherty & Zion Company of Tacoma, Washington is being loaded with logs while parked in a wooded area. |
Date: | 1938 |
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Description: | Three men use two International trucks to transport logs through a wooded area. The trucks were owned by F.J. Jacks, logger and retail lumberman. |
Date: | 07 07 1938 |
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Description: | An International DR-60 motor truck owned by the Lewis Lumber Company hauls a load of logs over a wooden bridge spanning cutover land. |
Date: | 02 17 1938 |
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Description: | A man is sitting behind the wheel of an International D-246-F logging truck owned by the Eatonville Transfer Company. Several logs are secured onto the tru... |
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Description: | Men posed sitting and standing in a logging camp in front of a steam locomotive. A man in the middle foreground is posed sitting and playing a concertina. ... |
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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: | "I am the man with measuring pole on my shoulder. At the age of 21 years I was sawing log in the woods. Since then I have seen the old time way go and the ... |
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Description: | View down dirt road through cut-over and burned-over terrain. |
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... |
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