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| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Back cover of a pamphlet advertising 10-ton Caterpillar tractors. The headline reads: "Dependable Under All Conditions" and is illustrated with six photogr... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Interior page of a pamphlet advertising the Best tractor for loggers. The text reads: "It is in getting the logs from the woods to the pond or mill that gr... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view towards the front left side of the "Sixty" logging cruiser tractor made by the C.L. Best Tractor Company. |
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| Description: | View across open ground towards men posing sitting and standing in horse-drawn wagons in front of a sawmill. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of loggers posing with logs piled on horse-drawn sleds. Caption reads: "Logging, Athens, Wis." |
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| Description: | The log who was made King of Logs is here entombed eight round, ten long For his design, the strengthened forest capriciously outgrew them all... |
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| Description: | We tend to forget that at the time of the destruction of the forests, an emergency situation existed. The need for lumber for the building up of the... |
| Date: | 12 07 1907 |
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| Description: | Elevated photographic postcard view of a paddle steamer towing rafts loaded with logs through an open pontoon bridge on the Mississippi River. Caption read... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| 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 ... |
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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... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View from rocky shoreline across river towards a man standing on rocks and holding a stick in front of a rock face on the opposite shoreline. There are lar... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | 90,000 feet of pine logs floating in the storage/sorting pond at the Arpin Lumber Company sawmill. The sawmill and other buildings are in the background. O... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Horse-drawn load of 6000 ft. of pine logs, accompanied by a cornet player and two women, at the Weinkauf & Co. timber lands. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite view of the Falls of Saint Anthony and logs caught on rocks in the falls. |
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| Description: | Train-load of logs with wood-burning Heisher geared locomotive and train crew. |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a group of men posing standing on top of and around logs on a sled pulled by a team of horses. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View from low hill of piles of logs along the icy rivers edge. A pile of logs is on the shoreline, and a large amount of neatly stacked logs are in the bac... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Businessmen visiting a log drive down the Wisconsin River. One man wearing a vest sits in a boat holding a peavey hook over his shoulder. Other men wearing... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline over tree branches of three businessmen visiting a logging crew on the Wisconsin River. One businessman sits on a boat while two others... |
| Date: | 02 1914 |
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| Description: | A steamhauler pulling logs on skids to the mill during a snowstorm. |
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