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Swing Boom, Beef Slough

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Description: Two men on an 1,150 foot long swing boom above Alma, which is in the distance on the opposite shoreline.
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Wolf River Paper and Fiber Company

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Description: Stacks of logs are in the foreground with a man in a hat near the river. There is a chimney billowing smoke near the factory.
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River Drivers Lunch

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Description: Log driving crew sitting down for lunch on the bank of a river (probably the Trap River or Rib River). There is a batteau at the water's edge, and one man ...
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Crane Lifting Logs at Logging Camp

Date: 1904
Description: At Hein's logging camp, a crane mounted on a railroad train lifts logs onto a flatbed railway car. Other logs are stacked on the snowy ground. A number of ...
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Logging Sled at the Landing

Date: 1904
Description: Five men stand on or nearby a sled loaded with logs and pulled by two horses at the landing at Hein's logging camp. There is snow on the ground.
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Huge Sledload of Logs

Date: 1895
Description: Two men stand at Hein's Lumber Camp atop a load of logs on a sled to which is hitched four horses, claimed to be the largest load of logs ever hauled by fo...
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Four-Horse Log Load

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Description: Numerous men stand on and around a large pile of logs and a sled stacked with logs pulled by four horses at the C & M Ry Company's camp. There is snow on t...
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Logging Crew Breaking to Eat

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Description: A few dozen men stand on and around a sandy path surrounded by low shrubbery. They are wearing work clothes, and some of them are carrying bowls filled wit...
Postcard

12800 Ft. of Lumber

Date: 1909
Description: Team of horses driving through Antigo hauling 12800 Ft. of lumber. Three men and one driver are sitting on top of the large pile of wood as a crowd of peop...
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Herrling Sawmill and Farm

Date: 1890
Description: A view of Rudolph Herrling's sawmill and log yard in front of the Herling farm.
Print

John J. Sherman Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of John J. Sherman, a real estate broker and tax, title, collection, and passenger agent in Wausau, Wisconsin, with images of men felling trees ...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 351-358

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Description: The boss says —
The center is —

Good workmen then served two masters
One a man, the other a craft

A fine-edged tool biting life-long in...
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Newspaper in the Raw

Date: 08 1963
Description: Elevated view of newspaper pulp wood stacked along the Fox River near the Combined Locks Paper Company. A crane is moving the logs, and workers are standin...

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