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... |
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: | 1900 |
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Description: | Log driving crew on river in five bateaux. In the background on the left is a bridge. |
Date: | 1913 |
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Description: | Eight men are in a boat driving logs down the Wisconsin River. |
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... |
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. |
Date: | 1936 |
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Description: | Elevated view of logs tugged across Lake Superior to the harbor at Ashland. |
Date: | 1895 |
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Description: | Logs move down the river, swirling with cross currents, resulting in a huge log jam. |
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Description: | Elevated view of dozens of workers standing on planks and using poles to maneuver logs in Beef Slough, near Alma. |
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Description: | Large log jam on the Chippewa River. In the distance a group of men stand atop the jammed logs. |
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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: | Looking down the Flambeau River near Little Falls. There may be a logjam in the distance. |
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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: | Elevated view of a group of men posed standing and holding logs in a river with pike hooks. There appears to be a dog on the right of the group standing on... |
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Description: | View from shoreline of two men posed standing on log sorting piers half a mile above the Railroad Bridge on the Black River. There is a large log jam behin... |
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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.... |
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Description: | Group of men and a boy posed holding logging tools and standing in front of tents on the banks of a river, probably just south of Black River Falls. A man ... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | View from shoreline of a driving crew standing on a log raft on the North Branch of the Popple River, a tributary of the Pine River. They are holding long ... |
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Description: | Driving crew posing on the logs. They are holding peaveys and cant hooks, tools used to move logs. The man on the left is holding a pail and the man in the... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Semi-panoramic view of a river town showing extensive sawmill operations. |
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