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Loggers Top Loading a Log Bobsled

Date: 1900
Description: Loggers using pulley to top load logs on horse-drawn bob sled.
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Load of Bark with Little Girl

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

Date: 1900
Description: Log driving crew on river in five bateaux. In the background on the left is a bridge.
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Rafts Below Dam

Date: 1886
Description: A fleet of rafts on the Wisconsin River below the Kilbourn dam.
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Indian Log Drivers

Date: 1899
Description: View along shoreline towards Indian log drivers, two in a bateau, and one man standing on the bank of the Chippewa River.
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A Bird's-Eye View of the City of Ashland, Wis. County Seat of Ashland Co.

Date: 1886
Description: Bird's-eye view of Ashland, on the shores of Lake Superior, with insets of The Apostle Islands Chequamagon Bay & Ashland, and Distances from Ashland.
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Raftsman's Series No. 1403: The Fleet Just Below The Dam In The Dells

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph view of several groups of men on rafts loaded with felled trees.
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Raftsman's Series No. 1425 : Handspiking Off A Bar. A Heavy Lift

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of a group of men standing knee deep in water using handspikes probably in an attempt to dislodge a lumber raft from a sandbar or from the shor...
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Raftsman's Series No. 1432 : Running The Kilbourn Dam, On Board The Raft

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of a man on a lumber raft steering the raft through the rapids in the Wisconsin Dells. Caption at bottom: The Camera's Story of Raftman's Life ...
Map or Atlas

La Crosse Bird's-Eye Map

Date: 1876
Description: Bird's-eye view of La Crosse.
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Stacking Logs

Date: 1914
Description: Using a team of two horses, men stack logs at McCann's lumber camp landing. The camp was in Couderay in Sawyer County on the line of the Chicago, Milwauke...
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Raft Fleet Below Dam

Date: 1886
Description: A fleet of rafts on the Wisconsin River below the Kilbourn dam.
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Raftsman's Series No. 1437 : Earning Their Money

Date: 
Description: A raftsman at work raising an oar (possibly rowing) with another man standing in the background. A second raft is in the distance.
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Lumber Rafts in Narrows

Date: 1887
Description: Two lumber rafts with men aboard floating down the Wisconsin River.
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Raftsman's Series Unnumbered: Man Throwing A Rope

Date: 
Description: Stereograph of a man on a raft throwing a rope.
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Raftsman's Series Unnumbered : Working a Spanish Windlass

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph view of five men on a raft working a Spanish windlass.
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Raftsman's Series No. 1400: The Pilot

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph view of Archie Young, pilot and logging camp foreman for the Arpin Lumber company holding the rudder. A second man, Zack Dugas, a cousin is in ...
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Raftsman's Series No. 1401 : The Crew

Date: 
Description: Stereograph of a group of men posing sitting and standing on a raft in front of a rock wall.
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Raftsman's Series No. 1405: Pastime. Dick Dancing For The Boys

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of a group of men standing and sitting on a raft, watching Dick Stevenson in the center dancing. Zack Dugas is at left clapping time, and Jack ...
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Raftsman's Series No. 1407: Arpin Avenue. Boys Turning Out Of Bunks on Cook Float

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of four men sitting by and lying in wooden a-frame shaped "bunks" on the Cook Float. Mike Lane, the Cook, is the nearest man just crawling out ...

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