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Land to be Cleared for Farming

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Description: View of cut-over land to be cleared for farming.
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Log Cabins at Boulder Lodge, Ghost Lake

Date: 1937
Description: Man smoking a cigar while standing in front of a log cabin situated in a clearing in northern Wisconsin. The man's necktie is blowing in the wind.
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Removing Tree Stump

Date: 06 12 1925
Description: A man uses a McCormick-Deering tractor to remove a tree stump from a tract of cutover farm land. The stump is attached to the tractor with a chain.
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Taking a Break

Date: 1937
Description: Men and one woman gathered around machinery in a cutover area of northern Wisconsin preparing to undertake an unknown task.
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International D-405 Truck

Date: 1962
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.
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New Cranberry Bed

Date: 09 1934
Description: Newly cleared cranberry marshes. In the center a man stands near a man-made irrigation ditch. To the left and right of the ditch are large piles of roots a...
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Transporting Logs

Date: 1938
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.
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Lewis Lumber Company Truck on Bridge

Date: 07 07 1938
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.
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Eatonville Transfer Company Logging Truck

Date: 02 17 1938
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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Removing Stumps on Uhrenholdt Farm

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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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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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Bushel of Potatoes

Date: 09 26 1895
Description: A pile of potatoes, weighing one hundred and seventy-four pounds, sits next to an overturned bushel basket on the potato field of Henry Kuepper. Stumps and...
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Pine Forest Harvesting

Date: 09 06 1895
Description: View of a partially harvested pine forest nine miles southwest of Washburn. A pathway is being cut for a narrow gauge logging railroad.
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Logging Camp

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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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Farm Home

Date: 1895
Description: Two women, a man and a child posing on a road adjoining their homestead, with stumpland and a forest behind them.
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Burned Cutover Land

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Description: Charred stumps and cut trunks of trees in the foreground with unburned forest in the distance.
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Camouflaged Blockhouse

Date: 1918
Description: View over slashed timber towards the edge of the defenses, with camouflaged blockhouse in the background.
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 507-513

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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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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 684-689

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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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Dirt Road

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Description: View down dirt road through cut-over and burned-over terrain.

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