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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: | 1886 |
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| 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... |
| 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 group of men on a raft. The man in the foreground is sitting and peeling potatoes. The young man splitting wood is Ashley Bennett, son of ... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of three raftsmen standing in the river, probably on a sandbar, using wooden poles to hold or push against the rafts. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of five men standing on a log and a plank of wood while another man is chopping at the log with an axe. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of several men working at dusk, knee deep in water attending to the raft. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Mill workers in the yard at Ramsay & Jones Mill. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of several men working at dusk, knee deep in water attending to the raft. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of five men standing on a log while another man chops at the log with an axe. |
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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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