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| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from steep shoreline of a log jam of about 150 million feet of logs, stopped at the piers of Pound, Halbert, and Co., which stood in about 40... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Three barefoot boys stand on a pile of logs in the foreground looking across the river at a group of men working to free a log jam in the Big Eddy on the C... |
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| Description: | Large log jam on the Chippewa River. In the distance a group of men stand atop the jammed logs. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a sawmill area and Lake Winnebago in the foreground. The square building with the "cupola" was the Revere House. A manuscript notation, very... |
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| Description: | Log driving crew sitting down for lunch on the bank of a river (probably the Trap River or Rib River). There is a batteau at the water's edge, and one man ... |
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| Description: | A composite of three photographs of the Menominee River with decorative graphics. Views of the river include log drivers and an elevated perspective of the... |
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| Description: | View from hill looking down on a group of log cabins inhabited by "dam tenders" on the shore of the icebound Chippewa River. A logging dam in is in the rig... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a log jam under a railroad bridge about half a mile from the Black River Falls Dam. On the opposite shoreline, men sit atop a fence.... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Semi-panoramic view of a river town showing extensive sawmill operations. |
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| Description: | Black and white illustration of Half Moon Lake with log jams and an island. Caption reads: "Half Moon Lake and Island, Eau Claire, Wis." |
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| Description: | View of a fiber mill by the riverside, with a log jam in the river in the foreground. Caption reads: "Kaukauna Fibre Co., Kaukauna, Wis." |
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