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Logging Scene

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Description: A two-man team of sawers work on a massive tree with a crosscut saw (right) while a man with an an axe waits to trim branches. The trunks are then cut down...
Photograph

Big Falls Logging Crew

Date: 1900
Description: Four men from a logging crew posing standing in the snow with teams of horses and oxen.
Photograph

Ox Carts with Furs

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Description: A view showing a line of ox carts loaded with furs leaving the Hudson Bay Company's Post to make the 16 mile trip to avoid the rapids on Slave River. Housi...
Photograph

Oxen Pulling Logs

Date: 1890
Description: Men posed with a team of four oxen harnessed to pull a loaded logging sled.
Photograph

Lumberjacks Moving Logs with Ox Cart

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Description: Lumberjacks standing next to an ox cart loaded with logs for use in sawmills associated with International Harvester.
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Logging Crew

Date: 1895
Description: A Knapp, Stout & Company crew with J. Bracklin (in fur coat), logging superintendent.
Photograph

Farmer Skidding Logs with Oxen

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Description: Farmer skidding logs with a team of oxen.
Photograph

International TD-14A Crawler Tractor Bulldozer

Date: 1952
Description: Man moving earth in South Africa with an International TD-14A crawler tractor equipped with a Bucyrus-Erie bulldozer. A man with oxen and a "primitive" ex...
Photograph

Logging with Oxen

Date: 03 13 1915
Description: A team of ten oxen pulling a load of cut logs on a wagon along a dirt road. A man is standing on the road behind the team of oxen, and in the background ar...
Photograph

Ox Team

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Description: View uphill of a team of oxen with a wagon stacked with lumber. In the background, men gather outside a general store located in the Raton Mountains, betwe...
Print

Northwestern Lumber Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Northwestern Lumber Company of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, manufacturer of "Lath Shingles & Pickets," with two men in the woods, one poised with a...
Print

M.H. Wheeler Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of M.H. Wheeler, a lumberman from Florence, Wisconsin, with a man standing on a load of logs, holding the reins for two horses harnessed to the ...
Photograph

Group in front of Sawmill

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Description: Two men, two women, a girl, and a dog posed standing next to a man displaying two oxen. In the background are two men posed sitting on a wagon loaded with ...
Photograph

Group in front of Sawmill

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Description: Large group of men, women, and children posed standing on the snow-covered ground in front of a sawmill either under construction, or an open saw mill.
Photograph

Men Posed Holding Logging Tools

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Description: Four men posed standing and holding logging tools next to a team of two oxen in the woods. Photographer's wagon in the background of C.R. Monroe, Traveling...
Photograph

Men Logging

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Description: Large group of men posed standing and holding logging tools with several teams of oxen and horses in the woods.
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Men Logging

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Description: Large group of men posed standing and holding logging tools with several teams of oxen and horses in the woods.
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Men Logging

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Description: Four men posed standing and holding logging tools next to a team of two oxen. Two other men are sawing a tree with a two-handled saw.
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Men Logging

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Description: Group of men posed standing and holding logging tools, including a long saw blade, next to and atop bobsleds pulled by a team of two oxen and a team of two...
Photograph

Men Logging

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Description: Logging crew of four men with a team of oxen hauling logs through a snow-covered forest.

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