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| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Loggers at dinner in the woods north of Glen Flora. The man in the center is filing his saw. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| 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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| Description: | Workers loading pine logs in northern Wisconsin when there was still virgin timber for logging. |
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| Description: | Two men with a saw stand by a large pine tree recently cut down. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A group of Native American Indian loggers pose on piles of logs at the Courtes Oreilles Reservation. |
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| Description: | Carter's Siding, a small railroad depot in "cutover" country, showing strong evidence of why formerly forested regions of northern Wisconsin were so named. |
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| Description: | View of a man standing next to a douglas fir which is fourteen feet in diameter. The man is dressed in work clothes and an axe rests on his hip. In the bac... |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a logging camp, with a dozen or so men posing by the wagons, piles of logs and machinery. There are both logs and milled lumber. ... |
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| Description: | A man is standing next to a large, fallen tree holding out a saw against the log. Directly behind him is the stump. Caption reads: "The Bucker at Work, Owe... |
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| Description: | A postcard with two views functioning as a "before" and "after" of forestry. The view on the left features a man standing in the distance among large trees... |
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| Description: | Oxen haul a cart near a stack of logs. A man stands on top of the cart. In the background is the forest. Caption reads: "A Pine Tree Forest near Pocomoke C... |
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| Description: | Three men are standing on the last railroad car which is carrying logs down a railroad track. Another set of tracks are running parallel on the left, and b... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of four men posing on logs floating in the Lower Killarney River, St. Martin's, New Brunswick, Canada. To the left of the scene is an expanse... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of log driving, with a large group of men using long poles to transfer logs from the land into the waterway. Logs can be seen in the ba... |
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| Description: | View of a log jam on the river, with a forest in the background. Caption reads: "Log Jam." |
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| Description: | Elevated view of logs in the river. Near the river's bend are houses and other structures. The rolling hills and forests of West Virginia are in the backgr... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Looking toward the Pinega River, showing the stairs and path to its shoreline, as well as a stacks of logs piled up along the shore. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Two timber sawyers standing posed with their tools in a forest. Both men wear heavy mittens, and the man on the left is carrying a saw across his left shou... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Yawkey-Bissell Lumber Co. main line logging railroad tracks “through virgin pine timber” south of Trout Lake. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | This view is looking northeast from the site of Norway Springs at the north end of Trout Lake in the spring. In the foreground are tree stumps; in the back... |
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