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| Date: | 09 06 1895 |
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| 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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| 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. ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Two women, a man and a child posing on a road adjoining their homestead, with stumpland and a forest behind them. |
| 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: | 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. |
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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. |
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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... |
| 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: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Side view of a man using a horse-drawn McCormick mower in cutover land. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View across clear cut area towards horses grazing near log cabins at Camp One Lumber Camp, north of Chicago Bay. |
| Date: | 07 03 1926 |
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| Description: | View of a man sitting a disk plow being pulled by a man on a 15-30 tractor in an overgrown area. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A field is demarcated by tree stumps piled in a wide row. Beyond the piled stumps is a field with stumps still in the ground. There is a farm building on t... |
| Date: | 03 23 1922 |
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| Description: | Two horses are pulling an open sleigh with a man at the reins through cutover land with many tree stumps. |
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