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Photograph

Load of Bark with Little Girl

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Description: Men with horse-drawn load of lumber with a little girl standing in front.
Photograph

Logging Near Rice Lake

Date: 1872
Description: A group of men use a team of four horses to transport logs across snow-covered ground on a sled. Trees are in the background. Caption reads: "A Logging Sce...
Photograph

Logging Near Rice Lake

Date: 1872
Description: A group of loggers poses for a group portrait amongst cut logs in a snow-covered wooded area. The men in the middle have their axes in hand, while other me...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 207-215

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Description: The log who was made King of Logs is here entombed
eight round, ten long

For his design, the strengthened forest
capriciously outgrew them all...
Postcard

Horse-Drawn Logging Sled

Date: 1916
Description: Black and white photographic postcard of a horse-drawn sled loaded with logs coming out of the woods. One or two men are driving the sled, and a man is wal...
Photograph

Group of People at Logging Camp

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Description: Elevated outdoor group portrait of men assembled at a logging camp. Horses are on the left, and a locomotive hauling cars of logs is in the background.
Photograph

Logging Scene

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Description: A group of men are standing around a large load of logs being hauled by a team of four horses.
Postcard

Sledding out the Logs

Date: 1910
Description: View of men transporting logs on horse-drawn sleds in the northwoods. Caption on back reads, in part: "Even the camp cook gets his photo taken."
Photograph

Logging at Cable

Date: 1906
Description: Ole Emerson's lumber property. A man is standing on top of a load of logs being pulled by a team of two horses on a sled through the snow. Caption from cal...

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