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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: | 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. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a woman holding a walking stick and wearing a hat and fur coat with a fur stole sitting on a ledge of ice at Skillet Falls. Bare trees fra... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Two well-dressed women stand at the foot of Skillet Falls. The trees in the background are bare; the hill behind is covered with tree stumps. The hill is... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A well-dressed woman with a walking stick stands on ice at the partially frozen Skillet Falls. Bare trees frame the scene. There are patches of snow and tr... |
| Date: | 09 1934 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | This early 20th century map highlights the land for sale by the American Immigration Company, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, in the towns of Cable, Drummond, G... |
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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: | View over water of Michigan lumbering scene, where men roll logs into the river. The group of men are posed holding peaveys and cant hooks or peaveys, tool... |
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