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... |
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Description: | Log jam, perhaps on the Black River or the Chippewa River in the Black River Falls area. |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company log driving crew on the Chippewa River. |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Log jam at Big Eddy on the Chippewa River during the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company log drive. There is a bridge in the distance, and trees are along the s... |
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: | View of a flat bottom boat known as an "Alligator," which was used in "booming and towing" logs on rivers. |
Date: | 1895 |
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Description: | Crew of river drivers moving logs off of rocks below a dam probably on the Wisconsin River. |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Log driving crew maneuvering logs through rapids below a dam, probably on the Wisconsin River. |
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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 ... |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Loggers known as "river pigs" round up stray logs with pikes and peaveys at Place's Rapids. |
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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... |
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. |
Date: | 05 1909 |
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Description: | A log driving crew at Eagle Rapids Dam on the Chippewa River. Bottom of print reads: "Eagle Rapids Jam. May, 18-09." |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Log sorting operation on a river in Northern Wisconsin. Men stand on floating logs and maneuver them using cant hooks. |
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