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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: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Log driving crew on river in five bateaux. In the background on the left is a bridge. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Log pond with two lumberjacks walking on the floating logs and sorting them in the Peshtigo River area. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Two businessmen visiting a log drive along the Wisconsin River. They stand atop a log holding peavey hooks. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Eight men are in a boat driving logs down the Wisconsin River. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of logs tugged across Lake Superior to the harbor at Ashland. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Sawmill on a Menominee Indian reservation, with logs floating in the water in the foreground. Caption reads: "Menominee Indian Mills." |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the city and the Mississippi River from the bluffs above the city. Photograph was taken after 1902 when the Buffalo County Training School... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Mississippi River with log rafts. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of the Wausau mill and dam next to the river, where logs were first sorted. |
| 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: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the Green Bay (later Hoberg) Paper and Fibre Company, from the back. Stacks of logs are in the foreground near water. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Cook's tent on a raft in the midst of a log drive on the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A sawmill run on the Menominee Indian Reservation. |
| Date: | 04 1973 |
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| Description: | View of Austin Creek mill race as it enters the sawmill building. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across river towards the town. Caption reads: "Ladysmith, Wis." Logs are floating in the water in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Brunette Falls on the Chippewa River. Several logs are jammed on a rock formation in the river. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 03 1911 |
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| Description: | A gasoline-powered launch tows a barge loaded with log pilings on the Wisconsin River to the Prairie du Sac dam site. Workmen drive the launch and guide th... |
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