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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of lumber raft and workers on the Chippewa River. In the background on the right are dwellings. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Log driving crew for the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company. Crew members are in the process of breaking a jam at the Big Eddy. One of the men is carrying a yo... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Loggers breaking up a log jam in the Peshtigo River area. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Men posed with a team of four oxen harnessed to pull a loaded logging sled. |
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| Description: | Farmer skidding logs with a team of oxen. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with lumber workers hauling a large log with horses. |
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| Description: | Winter view with men logging on the Little Wolf River during the winter of the "blue snow". Logs are being decked on the ice and along the shore. Horse te... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two logging workers pose with their team of horses who are hitched to a go-devil, used for skidding logs to a road or landing. |
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| Description: | Stacks of logs are in the foreground with a man in a hat near the river. There is a chimney billowing smoke near the factory. |
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| Description: | A postcard with two views functioning as a "before" and "after" of forestry. The view on the left features a man standing in the distance among large trees... |
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| Description: | A view of a steam hauler used for pulling logs. A man is standing inside of the hauler with his head out of the window. On the right a man is standing in f... |
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| Description: | Three men are standing on the last railroad car which is carrying logs down a railroad track. Another set of tracks are running parallel on the left, and b... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of log driving, with a large group of men using long poles to transfer logs from the land into the waterway. Logs can be seen in the ba... |
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| Description: | Logging crew with two large loads of logs on horse-drawn sleds ready for the mill. Foreman, Mike Baltus, stands in the foreground. Also pictured are A. Cli... |
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| Description: | Two men standing on a water tank sleigh used for icing logging roads. The sleigh is pulled by four horses. Foreman Mike Baltus stands in the snow at right.... |
| Date: | 01 06 1918 |
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| Description: | Lumber crew posed with a steam hauler and several sleds loaded with logs. The foreman's sleigh pulled by a horse is in the foreground. Possibly foreman, Mi... |
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| Description: | Group of men posed with 13,260 feet of cut lumber on a horse-drawn sled in winter. Some of the men hold cant hooks. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two women and one man in street clothes and wearing hats posing among the logs of a large log jam on the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Log driving crew maneuvering logs through rapids below a dam, probably on the Wisconsin River. |
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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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