Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | Elevated view of lumber raft and workers on the Chippewa River. In the background on the right are dwellings. |
Date: | 1869 |
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Description: | Elevated view from steep shoreline of a log jam of about 150 million feet of logs, stopped at the piers of Pound, Halbert, and Co., which stood in about 40... |
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... |
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Description: | Stereograph of a man standing on the back of a raft holding a hand-hewned oar. The raft is passing under a wooden bridge. A town, including a church, are i... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Chippewa Falls from the south side of the river below the falls. Includes the Sheely House Tavern, railway buildings, box cars, a train with five passenger... |
Date: | 1904 |
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Description: | Logs floating down the river beneath the bridge on the Chippewa River. On the far shoreline are billboards. One advertises for "J.R. Sharp Hardware." Men a... |
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Description: | Elevated view of lumber raft on the Upper Mississippi River with shoreline in the background. |
Date: | 1887 |
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Description: | Men on shoreline are returning logs with horses, which have been stranded on a sandbar, to the main channel of the Mississippi River. Beef Slough Company w... |
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Description: | Log driving crew sitting down for lunch on the bank of a river (probably the Trap River or Rib River). There is a batteau at the water's edge, and one man ... |
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Description: | A lumber mill complex on the banks of the Chippewa River. Patches of ice are on the river. Numerous logs lie on the shore opposite the mill and on the ice. |
Date: | 1904 |
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Description: | Logs floating down the Chippewa River in front of the "Big Mill". |
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Description: | View from hill looking down on a group of log cabins inhabited by "dam tenders" on the shore of the icebound Chippewa River. A logging dam in is in the rig... |
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Description: | View of a large group of logs on the rocky shoreline of a river. Buildings are along the opposite shoreline, also covered with logs. Identified as the Blac... |
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Description: | Hand-colored view from the shoreline towards a lumber raft. Caption reads: "Steamer Kit Carson Towing Largest Lumber Raft ever taken down the Mississippi R... |
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