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Lumber Camp Employees and Lumber

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Description: Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company Camp 15. Lumberjacks posed atop a sled load of logs, scaled at 13,562 board feet of lumber.
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Loggers Dining at Camp

Date: 1907
Description: Loggers at dinner in the woods north of Glen Flora. The man in the center is filing his saw.
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Lumberjacks with logs

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Description: Thirty-nine lumberers posed in front of a large stack of cut logs.
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Huge Log Jam

Date: 1869
Description: Elevated view from steep shoreline of a log jam of about 150 million feet of logs, stopped at the piers of Pound, Halbert, and Co., which stood in about 40...
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St. Croix Log Jam

Date: 1886
Description: Log jam on the St. Croix River at the Head of the Dalles. The jam was about five miles long, and 50,000,000 board feet of white pine was piled up.
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Felling White Pine

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Description: Two lumberjacks pose at the base of a tree with a double-handled saw poised to cut.
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Peshtigo Log Jam

Date: 1907
Description: Loggers breaking up a log jam in the Peshtigo River area.
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Town from Across a River

Date: 1870
Description: View from shoreline over river towards the town.
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Two Lumbermen with Saw

Date: 1880
Description: Two lumbermen posing with a two-man crosscut saw they are using on a fallen tree trunk, cutting the pine into manageable sizes for hauling.
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Large Log Jam

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Description: Two men climb on a very large log jam.
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Stump Land and Soil Erosion

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Description: Forest destroyed by destructive logging followed by a fire. The right-hand side of the image shows where soil erosion has begun.
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Loading Pine Logs

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Description: Workers loading pine logs in northern Wisconsin when there was still virgin timber for logging.
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Oxen Hauling Logs

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Description: Three men pose with a team of oxen hauling a log on the Spaulding holdings in Clark County
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Loggers Posed with Logs

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Description: Loggers posed between two large stacks of logs near Antigo, perhaps the camp of D. Sulivan.
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Hauling Logs With Oxen

Date: 1880
Description: Lumberjacks hauling logs with several teams of oxen.
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Loggers with Pine Tree

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Description: Two men with a saw stand by a large pine tree recently cut down.
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Chippewa River Log Marks

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Description: A few typical Chippewa River log marks, including bark marks and end stamps.
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St. Croix River

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Description: Wanigans tied to the banks of the St. Croix River among floating logs.
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Logging Crew and Railroad

Date: 1888
Description: A logging crew of the Upham Lumber Company, together with the company's locomotive, "Old Vanderbilt," formerly the Wisconsin Central Railroad's Engine No #...
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Sawmill on the Red Cedar River

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Description: Knapp-Stout and Company Sawmill on the Red Cedar River, with dam and logs in the foreground.

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