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Market Square

Date: 1895
Description: Elevated view of Polish immigrants in Market Square with horse-drawn lumber sledges and hay wagons. Commercial buildings are in the background. A sign on o...
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Cutting Christmas Trees for Market

Date: 1895
Description: A group of loggers at work in the woods with horses and a team of oxen. The men are cutting down fir trees to eventually be sold at market.
Photograph

Man with TracTracTor

Date: 04 26 1937
Description: A man uses an International Model TD-35 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) to haul a sled loaded with logs. The photograph was taken in Fort Frances, Ontario, C...
Photograph

Winter Carnival

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of central square during a winter carnival. Crowds are gathered around a horse-drawn sleigh. Residential buildings are in the background.
Postcard

A Joyful Christmas

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday postcard with Santa Claus sledding down a snow-covered hill on a toboggan with a sack of toys on his back. He is wearing his traditional red hat wi...
Photograph

Horses at a Logging Camp

Date: 1884
Description: The logging camp of Bruno Vinett. About a dozen horses, most in harness, and a similar number of men stand in front of a barn-like building and a small woo...
Photograph

Sleigh Ride in Outagamie County

Date: 1953
Description: Winter scene with a farmer driving a team of horses pulling a large wooden sled on a snow-covered road. Standing to his side, from left to right, is Marge ...
Print

Monarch Tractors

Date: 1920
Description: Advertisement for Monarch tractors featuring a photograph of a Monarch 30-18 hauling a 41-ton load over snow and icy roads. The text at top reads: "Monarch...
Photograph

Round Silo

Date: 1895
Description: A twenty-five foot high round silo featured on the farm of F.D. Parish, 4.5 miles southeast of Waupaca. The silo is twenty feet in diameter. Two men are ge...
Photograph

General Merchandise Store and Post Office

Date: 1920
Description: Six people standing on the porch of L.J. Ryan Dry Goods and Groceries. A sign above the door says: Post Office North Andover." A team of two horses are pul...
Photograph

Logging Camp

Date: 
Description: Group of men posed holding logging tools. They are standing and sitting in front of wooden buildings. Two men display two teams of horses. Behind the group...
Print

Trackpull Crawler Equipment

Date: 05 1926
Description: Front cover of an advertising booklet for Trackpull crawler equipment for the Fordson tractor. The cover features a man using the Fordson tractor to pull a...
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Sleigh

Date: 02 10 1901
Description: Winter scene with Herman Riebe, his four sisters, and a cousin riding in a bobsled pulled by a team of white horses through the snow. A fence, a snowy fiel...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Co. Catalog Front and Back Cover

Date: 1885
Description: The front cover features a color illustration of a man and woman relaxing near a lake or river. The woman is sitting on a chair under an umbrella painting ...
Photograph

Twins Playing in the Snow

Date: 1903
Description: Winter scene with Jennie and Edgar Krueger (twins) playing with large blocky pieces of snow in a field. A sled is on the ground in front of them.
Photograph

Unloading Goods from Train

Date: 04 11 1923
Description: A man driving an industrial McCormick Deering tractor is pulling a sled full of goods from a train car. Three men are helping to push it onto the loading d...
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Pulling Contest at Steam Engine Days

Date: 08 21 1971
Description: Rear view a man standing on a weighted sled holding the reigns of two horses. The horses are attempting to pull the weight forward on loose dirt. Five men ...
Photograph

Feeding Wildlife

Date: 1940
Description: Two men wearing woolen snowsuits and hats are maneuvering a toboggan over deep snow in a wooded landscape. The sled is loaded with bales of hay and two bus...
Photograph

Lumbering — TD-6

Date: 10 24 1949
Description: Subject: "Lumbering — TD-6." Where Taken: "NE." Information with photograph reads: "TD-6 owned by True & Noyes Co., East Derry, N.H. Used with straight cab...
Photograph

Bringing in the Logs

Date: 1955
Description: Two men hauling logs in a sled on a snow-covered farm. Farm buildings are in the distance, with trees on the left and right in the foreground.

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