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Log Driving Crew

Date: 1910
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.
Photograph

Place's Rapids on the Peshtigo River

Date: 1905
Description: Loggers known as "river pigs" round up stray logs with pikes and peaveys at Place's Rapids.
Print

International Truck Advertising Proof

Date: 02 1946
Description: Advertising proof for "rugged" International trucks, featuring a color illustration of men log driving timber down a river with an International truck bear...
Photograph

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 ...
Photograph

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...
Postcard

Log Jam on Flambeau River near Ladysmith

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Description: View of a group of men posing on a log jam in a river. Caption reads: "Log Jam on Flambeau River near Ladysmith, Wis."

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