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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: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Loggers breaking up a log jam in the Peshtigo River area. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Men posed with a team of four oxen harnessed to pull a loaded logging sled. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two logging workers pose with their team of horses who are hitched to a go-devil, used for skidding logs to a road or landing. |
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| Description: | Two views in postcard format. The view on left is of two lumberjacks sitting in front of a tree, each holding an axe. To the left is a large saw used for f... |
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| Description: | Two men standing on a water tank sleigh used for icing logging roads. The sleigh is pulled by four horses. Foreman Mike Baltus stands in the snow at right.... |
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| Description: | Group of men posed with 13,260 feet of cut lumber on a horse-drawn sled in winter. Some of the men hold 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: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Mill workers in the yard at Ramsay & Jones Mill. |
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| Description: | Horse-drawn lumber sled loaded with logs. Five lumbermen are standing on and near sled. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Northwestern Lumber Company of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, manufacturer of "Lath Shingles & Pickets," with two men in the woods, one poised with a... |
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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... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of loggers posing with logs piled on horse-drawn sleds. Caption reads: "Logging, Athens, Wis." |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Gust Larson, Morris Anderson and another man stand outdoors behind a team of two horses, snaking logs. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View across stacks of logs towards a group of men posing near or on a logging train. There are two teams of oxen near the stacked logs, and snow is on the ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A copy of an older photograph of a logging scene. In the foreground a man is holding the reins of a pair of horses, another man is standing beside him; beh... |
| Date: | 10 23 1909 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Scene Near Rice Lake, Wis." Five lumberjacks pose with a load of logs on a sled pulled by horses. Two skids lean against the logs. Th... |
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