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Men Logging

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Description: Group of men and eight teams of two horses dragging logs in a snow-covered field.
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posed standing and sitting on the snow-covered ground by an empty sled and in front of log buildings, several horse teams and a team of oxen.
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group portrait of men posed holding logging tools, while standing and sitting on log benches. There is snow on the ground. On the left behind the group is ...
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Group Posed with Logs

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Description: Group of twelve men and one woman posed with a load of logs waiting to be pulled by two horses harnessed to a sled. Several of the men hold cant hooks or p...
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Lone Rock From Below #109

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Description: Elevated view of several people rafting on a flat bottom boat near Lone Rock. There is a large raft, perhaps for logging transportation, tied up at Lone Ro...
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Men Around a Sawmill

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Description: View across open ground towards men posing sitting and standing in horse-drawn wagons in front of a sawmill.
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Log Driving Crew

Date: 1890
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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Driving Crew on the Logs

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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...
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Ontonagon River

Date: 1900
Description: View from rocky shoreline across river towards a man standing on rocks and holding a stick in front of a rock face on the opposite shoreline. There are lar...
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Arpin Lumber Co. Sawmill

Date: 1890
Description: 90,000 feet of pine logs floating in the storage/sorting pond at the Arpin Lumber Company sawmill. The sawmill and other buildings are in the background. O...
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Group with Horse-Drawn Sled in the Timber Lands

Date: 1906
Description: Horse-drawn load of 6000 ft. of pine logs, accompanied by a cornet player and two women, at the Weinkauf & Co. timber lands.
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Locomotive Trailing Logs

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Description: Train-load of logs with wood-burning Heisher geared locomotive and train crew.
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Logging Scene

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Description: Exterior view of a group of men posing standing on top of and around logs on a sled pulled by a team of horses.
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Logging Stacks

Date: 1913
Description: View from low hill of piles of logs along the icy rivers edge. A pile of logs is on the shoreline, and a large amount of neatly stacked logs are in the bac...
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Visiting a Log Drive

Date: 1912
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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Businessmen Visiting Logging Crew

Date: 1912
Description: View from shoreline over tree branches of three businessmen visiting a logging crew on the Wisconsin River. One businessman sits on a boat while two others...
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Steamhauler

Date: 02 1914
Description: A steamhauler pulling logs on skids to the mill during a snowstorm.
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Log Jam and Wagon Bridge

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Description: View of a river with a log jam, and a bridge in the distance. Identified as the Hatfield wagon bridge over the Black River, reportedly built in 1899, destr...
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Black River

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Description: Elevated view of a body of water with frost on the banks. Identified as the Black River. Logs are along the shore.
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Logging on the Black River

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Description: Elevated view over trees towards large groups of logs in a river. Identified as the Black River.

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