Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 23

Photograph

Log Jam

Date: 
Description: Log jam, perhaps on the Black River or the Chippewa River in the Black River Falls area.
Photograph

Log Jam

Date: 
Description: Log jam floating by the first railroad bridge over the river.
Photograph

Women in Two Rowboats

Date: 
Description: Four women, two in each boat, row near a pile of logs along a shoreline.
Photograph

Log Jam

Date: 
Description: A possible stereograph of a man standing on a log jam at a sorting pier in a river.
Photograph

Logs Along River

Date: 
Description: A possible stereovies of a river with logs along the shore. Possibly the Hatfield and Railroad bridges in the background.
Photograph

Ice Gorge

Date: 
Description: View of logs and ice in the river, probably the Ice Gorge of 1876.
Photograph

Men Posed Around Logs

Date: 
Description: Group of men and children posed in front of large piles of snow-covered logs, ready to be dumped from landings into the river after the spring thaw.
Photograph

Men Posed on top of Stacked Logs

Date: 
Description: Group of men posed atop and among stacks of logs on landing.
Photograph

Men Sitting on Pile of Logs

Date: 
Description: View over snow-covered ground or a frozen river of a group of men sitting on piles of logs. Behind them on the right is a log sorting pier. There are two b...
Photograph

Men Posed On Logs

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of a group of men posed standing and holding logs in a river with pike hooks. There appears to be a dog on the right of the group standing on...
Photograph

Sorting Logs

Date: 
Description: View from shoreline of two men posed standing on log sorting piers half a mile above the Railroad Bridge on the Black River. There is a large log jam behin...
Photograph

Sorting Logs

Date: 
Description: Loggers near a log jam under a railroad bridge.
Photograph

Log Jam

Date: 
Description: View from shoreline of a log jam under a railroad bridge about half a mile from the Black River Falls Dam. On the opposite shoreline, men sit atop a fence....
Photograph

Logging Clean-Up Crew

Date: 
Description: Group of men and a boy posed holding logging tools and standing in front of tents on the banks of a river, probably just south of Black River Falls. A man ...
Photograph

Copy Photograph; Log Jam

Date: 
Description: Copy photograph of a log jam on a river. A lone logger is sitting in the center.
Photograph

View of the Black River

Date: 
Description: Outdoor view, in stereograph form, looking up the Black River from Black River Falls. There are logs in the river in the foreground, and a bridge in the ba...
Photograph

Railroad Bridge over Black River

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of the third railroad bridge over the Black River. Logs are lodged in the river.
Photograph

Log Jam and Wagon Bridge

Date: 
Description: View of a river with a log jam, and a bridge in the distance. Identified as the Hatfield wagon bridge over the Black River, reportedly built in 1899, destr...
Photograph

Black River

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of a body of water with frost on the banks. Identified as the Black River. Logs are along the shore.
Photograph

Black River Scene

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of a small boat on a body of water near the shore and a large group of logs. Location identified as the Black River.

Have Questions?

If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.

Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at:

feedback@wisconsinhistory.org