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Loading a Bobsled with Logs

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Description: Two men posed standing and sitting on a bobsled loaded with logs and pulled by a team of two horses in the woods.
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Loading a Bobsled with Logs

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Description: Two men and a dog posed sitting on a bobsled loaded with logs and pulled by a team of two horses in snowy woods.
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Loading a Bobsled with Logs

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Description: Group of men posed standing near and on two bobsleds loaded with logs and pulled by teams of four horses. There is an empty sled pulled by a team of four h...
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Logging Camp

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Description: Logging camp with numerous bobsleds loaded with logs. Two men and two women are posed sitting in a sleigh pulled by a team of two horses in front of a wood...
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Men Posed Around Logs

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Description: Group of men posed atop and among piles of logs and three teams of two horses.
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Men Logging

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Description: Group of men and eight teams of two horses dragging logs in a snow-covered field.
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posed standing and sitting on the snow-covered ground by an empty sled and in front of log buildings, several horse teams and a team of oxen.
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group portrait of men posed holding logging tools, while standing and sitting on log benches. There is snow on the ground. On the left behind the group is ...
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Group of People on Rocky Shorline of River

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Description: View from shoreline of two women posed on logs on rocky shoreline by the river. Four or five young boys sit on the rocks on the left. There is a railroad b...
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Group Posed with Logs

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Description: Group of twelve men and one woman posed with a load of logs waiting to be pulled by two horses harnessed to a sled. Several of the men hold cant hooks or p...
Photograph

Lone Rock From Below #109

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Description: Elevated view of several people rafting on a flat bottom boat near Lone Rock. There is a large raft, perhaps for logging transportation, tied up at Lone Ro...
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...
Print

Dalles of the Wisconsin "The Jaws"

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Description: Engraved view of "The Jaws" in the Wisconsin Dells.
Book or Pamphlet

"Caterpillar" Consistency

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a brochure advertising Caterpillar tractors. A photograph of men using the tractor to haul logs appears at top, while text reading: "'Caterp...
Photograph

Men Around a Sawmill

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Description: View across open ground towards men posing sitting and standing in horse-drawn wagons in front of a sawmill.
Postcard

Logging

Date: 1908
Description: Colorized postcard of loggers posing with logs piled on horse-drawn sleds. Caption reads: "Logging, Athens, Wis."
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 207-215

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Description: The log who was made King of Logs is here entombed
eight round, ten long

For his design, the strengthened forest
capriciously outgrew them all...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 507-513

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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...
Photograph

Log Driving Crew

Date: 1890
Description: View from shoreline of a driving crew standing on a log raft on the North Branch of the Popple River, a tributary of the Pine River. They are holding long ...
Photograph

Driving Crew on the Logs

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Description: Driving crew posing on the logs. They are holding peaveys and cant hooks, tools used to move logs. The man on the left is holding a pail and the man in the...

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