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Raftsman's Series No. 1408: Cook and Cookie Before Dinner

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Description: Stereograph of a group of men on a raft. The man in the foreground is sitting and peeling potatoes. The young man splitting wood is Ashley Bennett, son of ...
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Dining Hall at Power Dam Camp

Date: 08 18 1912
Description: Eight cooks posing inside the dining hall. Long tables are set for a meal.
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Dining Room at Power Dam Camp

Date: 05 28 1913
Description: Power dam construction workers pausing during a meal in the camp dining room. Oil lamps are hanging from the ceiling; overhead electric lights are also ins...
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Cottage Inn

Date: 1835
Description: Two-story home with sloping roof. One man is whipping a team of eight cattle while another man drives the plow behind them. To the left stands a man near a...
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Haying Time

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Description: A farm boy is riding the "hay-fork horse" as the farmer is loading hay into the barn during haying time in July.
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Silo Filling

Date: 1980
Description: Farmers work cooperatively with their horse teams on silo-filling activities early in autumn. Rows of green forage are created in the fields and carried to...
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Hosing Down Silage

Date: 1916
Description: View of a man standing on a pile of corn hosing down the silage before loading a silo.
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River Drivers Lunch

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Description: Log driving crew sitting down for lunch on the bank of a river (probably the Trap River or Rib River). There is a batteau at the water's edge, and one man ...
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Logging Clean-Up Crew

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Description: Group of men and a boy posed holding logging tools and standing in front of tents on the banks of a river, probably just south of Black River Falls. A man ...
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Eating in a Tent

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Description: Group of men and one boy posed sitting on benches on either side of a long table for a meal in an open-sided tent on the banks of a river. In the backgroun...
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Meal with the Log Drivers

Date: 1912
Description: View towards shoreline of log drivers eating lunch on the edge of the riverbank. Visiting businessmen share a meal with the log drivers who are sitting and...
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Log Drivers Lunch

Date: 1912
Description: View towards shoreline of log drivers eating lunch on the edge of the riverbank. The men wait in line along a buffet table filled with provisions. The busi...
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Splitting Wood

Date: 08 1911
Description: The Gang split wood for the cooking fire at their camp by Sturgeon Lake.
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On the Flambeau River

Date: 07 1937
Description: View across water towards a shoreline where men and boys are gathered on the bank of the Flambeau River, with several canoes and rowboats pulled up to the ...
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Men on a Raft

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Description: Stereograph of six men on a raft on the Wisconsin River. Structures, barrels, tables on sawhorses, ropes and timbers cover the raft. In the background is t...
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On the Raft

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Description: Stereograph of men on a large raft on the Wisconsin River, with exposed, tree-lined rock formations on the shoreline in the background. Wanigans (shelters)...
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Jeannette Holt Doing Laundry

Date: 1918
Description: Standing on the pier, Jeannette Holt is doing laundry by hand, using the washboard in an iron bucket that is sitting on the diving board. Archibald Lake an...

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