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| 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: | 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: | Two businessmen visiting a log drive along the Wisconsin River. They stand atop a log holding peavey hooks. |
| 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: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Workers push logs floating in the Wisconsin River into alignment to enter a building for processing. |
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| Description: | Group of lumber workers standing on logs floating in Beef Slough. |
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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. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company log driving crew on the Chippewa River. |
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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: | Men working to break up a log jam under the Hatfield Wagon Bridge. This is the original Hatfield Bridge, destroyed when the Hatfield Dam failed in the floo... |
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| Description: | Men working to break up a log jam under the Hatfield Bridge. This is the original Hatfield Bridge, destroyed when the Hatfield Dam failed in the flood of 1... |
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| Description: | Several men standing amidst a huge log jam on the St. Croix River. The men are standing in a line holding a rope. A bridge spans the river in the far backg... |
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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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