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Log Driving Crew

Date: 1905
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...
Poster

International Truck Advertising Poster

Date: 1938
Description: Advertising poster for International trucks. Features a color illustration of men loading lumber onto a truck with utility stake body. Includes the text: "...
Photograph

Lumberyard in Ruby

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of men, women, and a child posing on boards at a lumbering and sawmill operation. The camp was operated by Edward Hahn, who named the communi...
Photograph

UW-Madison Mechanical Engineering Building Construction

Date: 09 07 1930
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison Mechanical Engineering Building at 1513 University Avenue under construction. Men are working on the steel framework. A mas...
Photograph

Man Delivering Lumber with International Model H Truck

Date: 1918
Description: African American driver delivering a load of lumber with an International Model H semi-truck. The truck was owned by Farrar Lumber Company. The company was...
Book or Pamphlet

International Model D-40 and DS-40 Trucks

Date: 1940
Description: Front cover of an advertising brochure for 1940 International Model D-40 and DS-40 trucks. Features a color illustration of lumber workers loading a truck.
Photograph

International Model 31 Truck Carrying Lumber

Date: 1922
Description: International model 31 truck carrying lumber for Century Lumber Co. The truck is parked outside the company's warehouse. A man is sitting in the driver's s...
Photograph

Log Running on the Chippewa River

Date: 1904
Description: Logs floating down the river beneath the bridge on the Chippewa River. On the far shoreline are billboards. One advertises for "J.R. Sharp Hardware." Men a...
Photograph

Men Using International Feed Grinder

Date: 01 06 1923
Description: Group of men using an International feed grinder outside a lumber office, possibly in Iowa. Some of the men are standing on top of a truck owned by Milo E....
Photograph

Doyon Lumber Co. Fire

Date: 05 11 1947
Description: Firemen at the scene of the Doyon Lumber Company fire, 638 West Mifflin Street. The Fiore coal silos are visible in the background.
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English Lumberyard Trucks

Date: 1930
Description: Men stand next to two International trucks loaded with lumber at W.R. Barton and Son Ltd. Timber Merchants in England.
Photograph

Madison Soap Box Derby, Car Construction

Date: 07 10 1948
Description: Yardman Don Hoffman helps Bill Morton pick out plywood for his soap box racer at C.C. Colling Lumber Yard on University Avenue.
Postcard

Delivery of Auto Buggies

Date: 03 23 1909
Description: Five International Harvester Auto Buggies with men sitting inside are on a dirt road in front of the Spooner Lumber Company. Caption reads: "Delivery of I....
Photograph

Wisconsin Retail Lumbermen's Association Banquet

Date: 02 31 1949
Description: Seated at the speakers' table at the Wisconsin Retail Lumbermen's banquet are (from left to right): Ralph E. Nuzum, Viroqua, president; D. Lee Watts, Madis...
Photograph

Logging with an International TD-18 Crawler Tractor

Date: 1940
Description: A man operating an International TD-18 Diesel TracTractor (crawler tractor) in a logging operation. The tractor was owned by the Pacific National Lumber Co...
Photograph

Moving Lumber with an I-12 Tractor

Date: 1939
Description: Man pulls a lumber dolly with an International I-12 tractor owned by A.N. Foote Lumber Company. According to the original caption, the dolly was "loaded wi...
Photograph

P&H Monorail Hoist with Lumber Handling Unit

Date: 1910
Description: Pawling & Harnischfeger monorail hoist crane with lumber handling unit outdoors. A man is in the cab, which is stamped "Pawling & Harnischfeger, Milwaukee,...
Photograph

P&H Monorail Hoist with Lumber Handling Unit

Date: 1910
Description: Pawling & Harnischfeger monorail hoist with a lumber handling unit, laden with lumber, with operator repositioning load as the hoist leaves the lumber shed...
Photograph

P&H Monorail Hoist With Lumber Handling Unit In Warehouse

Date: 1910
Description: Pawling & Harnischfeger monorail hoist with lumber handling unit inside of an unidentified lumber warehouse. There is a man operating the unit.
Photograph

Two P&H 3-Ton Monorail Hoists with Lumber Units

Date: 1910
Description: Rear view of two Pawling & Harnischfeger 3-ton monorail hoists with lumber handling units laden with lumber and men in the cabs. Both hoists are stamped w...

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