Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 26

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

Logging Camp, Black River Falls, Wisconsin

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of men posed standing in a logging camp, displaying six teams of two oxen. One man is posed seated in a buggy pulled by a single horse, and a...
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

Logs near Water

Date: 
Description: View across water towards large logs on the bank of a body water.

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