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| Description: | Pulling tree stumps in northern Wisconsin. A group of curious onlookers watches as workers load large stumps. A sign in the background reads: "Conrath Home... |
| Date: | 09 26 1895 |
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| Description: | View of the A.G. Beebe farm in Bruce, Wis. with stump land in the foreground. In the background is Mr. Beebe's barn and house. |
| Date: | 06 17 1929 |
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| Description: | Farm surrounded by cutover stump land. |
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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: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Partially cleared stump land on the farm of Gustave Voight, two miles south of Merrill, Lincoln county. Logs for burning are in the foreground. In the far ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Four men and three children standing in a stump-strewn field with a horse-drawn McCormick mower. |
| Date: | 05 26 1963 |
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| Description: | Burned cedar stumps in a swamp with a farm in the distance. |
| Date: | 09 03 1895 |
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| Description: | Clearing stumps with a stump machine on the farm of Christopher Paustenbach, three miles east of Medford, Taylor County. |
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| Description: | In a photograph taken for the Farm Security Administration, a man hangs socks to dry on a clothesline on land where trees have been cut down, or cutover. |
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| Description: | Man driving Hough Payloader, clearing land and loading demolition debris. Hough became a subsidiary of International Harvester Company. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The town buildings in Irma. Many stumps and milled logs are in the foreground. |
| 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. |
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| Description: | A family of six posing outdoors on the shoreline of a river with a cleared forest in the background. The husband is sitting on a tree stump, and the wife t... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Cutover land near a lumber mill. Logs and boards are stacked near the building in the background. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | View of Skillet Falls from downstream. The trees are bare, and tree stumps are visible on the hill in the background, known locally as Mount Baldy. |
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