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| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | View across water of a Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad locomotive (No #33) pulling a pay car across a trestle over the Fox River. Several large... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of lumber raft and workers on the Chippewa River. In the background on the right are dwellings. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Log driving crew for the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company. Crew members are in the process of breaking a jam at the Big Eddy. One of the men is carrying a yo... |
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| Description: | Two men navigating their canoe through caves at the Wisconsin Dells. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | The Cassville Ferry with three cars and passengers, crossing the Mississippi River from Cassville to Turkey River, Iowa. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Log driving crew on river in five bateaux. In the background on the left is a bridge. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline towards Indian log drivers, two in a bateau, and one man standing on the bank of the Chippewa River. |
| Date: | 06 1837 |
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| Description: | Lithograph based on a painting by Mrs. E.E. Bailey showing the Peck cabin, the first house in Madison. In addition to the cabin, the lithograph includes a ... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a group of men standing knee deep in water using handspikes probably in an attempt to dislodge a lumber raft from a sandbar or from the shor... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a man on a lumber raft steering the raft through the rapids in the Wisconsin Dells. Caption at bottom: The Camera's Story of Raftman's Life ... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Eight men are in a boat driving logs down the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Two men, one wearing an apron, sit in a wanigan tied to the shore of the Chippewa River near Chippewa Falls. The inside of the boat appears to have a pile ... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Men in bateaux for the Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company's log drive on the Chippewa River at Jim Falls. |
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| Description: | A raftsman at work raising an oar (possibly rowing) with another man standing in the background. A second raft is in the distance. |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a man on a raft throwing a rope. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view of five men on a raft working a Spanish windlass. |
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| Description: | Group of eight men sitting on shore around a fire, with the river and a boat in the background. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of men unloading lumber off a raft. A man at the left is loading lumber onto a horse-drawn wagon, while a man in an apron is holding the horses... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of four men sitting by and lying in wooden a-frame shaped "bunks" on the Cook Float. Mike Lane, the Cook, is the nearest man just crawling out ... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a group of men "witching up." |
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