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Felling White Pine

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Description: Two lumberjacks pose at the base of a tree with a double-handled saw poised to cut.
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Big Falls Logging Crew

Date: 1900
Description: Four men from a logging crew posing standing in the snow with teams of horses and oxen.
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Sawmill Workers Posing with Steam Engine in Forest

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Description: Two workers are posing in front of a steam engine carrying logs for an International Harvester sawmill.
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Logging Crew and Railroad

Date: 1888
Description: A logging crew of the Upham Lumber Company, together with the company's locomotive, "Old Vanderbilt," formerly the Wisconsin Central Railroad's Engine No #...
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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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Cutting Crew in the Woods

Date: 1900
Description: A cutting crew of three men posing in the woods with a work horse next to felled trees.
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Logger

Date: 06 04 1894
Description: A logger poses next to a team of horses pulling a load of logs.
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Logging with an International T-20 Crawler Tractor

Date: 1938
Description: Man using an International T-20 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) in a logging operation. Original caption reads: "F.J. Jacks of Tunica, Mississippi is known a...
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Logging with a T-20 Crawler Tractor

Date: 03 09 1938
Description: Men using an International T-20 TracTracTor (crawler tractor), PD-80, and P-300 owned by Sam Seppala of Grand Marais, to log white pine. The original capti...
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Douglas Fir and Logger

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Description: View of a man standing next to a douglas fir which is fourteen feet in diameter. The man is dressed in work clothes and an axe rests on his hip. In the bac...
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Men Standing Near Logs

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Description: A view of two men standing on, and two men in front of, numerous logs. One man holds a long ruler for measuring the logs' diameters. A small covered work ...
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Log Driving, Idaho

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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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Saw Filer and Logging Crew

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Description: Logging crew and horses posed in snow.
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Skidding a Log

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Description: Man driving two horses which are skidding a log out of the woods to the logging road.
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Logging Crew with Cut Wood

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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.
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River Drivers

Date: 1895
Description: Crew of river drivers moving logs off of rocks below a dam probably on the Wisconsin River.
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Sacking the Rapids

Date: 1890
Description: Log driving crew maneuvering logs through rapids below a dam, probably on the Wisconsin River.
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Log Driving Crew

Date: 1910
Description: Logging crew standing on planks and logs possibly in a sorting works on the Yellow River. One man holds a ledger and the others hold long cant hooks.
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Place's Rapids on the Peshtigo River

Date: 1905
Description: Loggers known as "river pigs" round up stray logs with pikes and peaveys at Place's Rapids.
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Lumber Sled

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Description: Horse-drawn lumber sled loaded with logs. Five lumbermen are standing on and near sled.

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