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Pulling Stumps to Clear Land

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Description: Pulling tree stumps in northern Wisconsin. A group of curious onlookers watches as workers load large stumps. A sign in the background reads: "Conrath Home...
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Adult Men and Children in Field with McCormick Mower

Date: 1900
Description: Four men and three children standing in a stump-strewn field with a horse-drawn McCormick mower.
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Men Clearing Stumps

Date: 09 03 1895
Description: Clearing stumps with a stump machine on the farm of Christopher Paustenbach, three miles east of Medford, Taylor County.
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Madeline Island Logging Camp

Date: 1910
Description: Madeline Island logging camp near Big Bay. Men preparing logs for a building, with three log buildings in background.
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Skillet Falls in Winter

Date: 1909
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...
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Two Women at Skillet Falls

Date: 1909
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...
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Skillet Falls in Winter

Date: 1909
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...
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Man with Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 1900
Description: Rear view of a man operating a horse-drawn McCormick mower through cutover land. In the field are many tree trunks. The field is surrounded by trees.
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Horse and Buggy Near Mining Camp

Date: 09 1910
Description: People gathered around a horse-drawn buggy on the dividing line between the Ferris-Hagerty property and the Leighton-Wyoming mines. Harry Dankoler is to th...
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Three Men in Clearing

Date: 09 1910
Description: Three man stand in a small clearing on a steep rocky hill amid fallen trees. The small waterfall behind the men was the water power for the Leighton-Wyomin...
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Plowing Around Stumps

Date: 02 24 1915
Description: Left side view of Earle Morris using a walking plow pulled by a mule in a field pitted with tree stumps.
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Removing Tree Stump

Date: 06 12 1925
Description: A man uses a McCormick-Deering tractor to remove a tree stump from a tract of cutover farm land. The stump is attached to the tractor with a chain.
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Taking a Break

Date: 1937
Description: Men and one woman gathered around machinery in a cutover area of northern Wisconsin preparing to undertake an unknown task.
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New Cranberry Bed

Date: 09 1934
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...
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Removing Stumps on Uhrenholdt Farm

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Description: A group of men remove a large stump with the help of horses and a winch on the family farm.
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Logging Camp

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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. ...
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Farm Home

Date: 1895
Description: Two women, a man and a child posing on a road adjoining their homestead, with stumpland and a forest behind them.
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 684-689

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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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Michigan Lumbering Scene

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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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The First House in Kennedy

Date: 1908
Description: Group posed in front of the first house built in Kennedy.

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