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Filter: Year of 1900-1999
| 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: | 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: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Workers push logs floating in the Wisconsin River into alignment to enter a building for processing. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Cook's tent on a raft in the midst of a log drive on the Wisconsin River. |
| 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: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Three men loading up a logging truck with timber. Two of the men are standing on the ground using pulley's, and the third man is on top of the trailer with... |
| Date: | 04 1937 |
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| Description: | Linoleum cut print of a man using a cant hook to move logs. Other lumberjacks work in the background. |
| 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: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Businessmen visiting a log drive down the Wisconsin River. One man wearing a vest sits in a boat holding a peavey hook over his shoulder. Other men wearing... |
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