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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: | 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: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company log driving crew on the Chippewa River. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Brunette Falls on the Chippewa River. Several logs are jammed on a rock formation in the 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: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Logging crew standing on planks and logs possibly in a sorting works on the Yellow River. One man holds a ledger and the others hold long cant hooks. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Loggers known as "river pigs" round up stray logs with pikes and peaveys at Place's Rapids. |
| Date: | 02 1946 |
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| Description: | Advertising proof for "rugged" International trucks, featuring a color illustration of men log driving timber down a river with an International truck bear... |
| 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: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two men standing on logs are looking at the log jam in the river. Caption reads: "Breaking Log Jam in the Chippewa River" |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Colorized view of log jam. A sand bluff is across the river in the upper left corner. Caption reads: "Log Jam on Chippewa River." |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A group of men driving logs down the Brule. Caption reads: "Log Drive on Brule River, Near Florence, Wis." |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View from the Oconto River of the Holt Lumber Company. A man is standing on a log boom and guiding logs to the sawmill. Writing on the postcard reads: "Hol... |
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