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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline over river towards the town. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Logs floating down the river beneath the bridge on the Chippewa River. On the far shoreline are billboards. One advertises for "J.R. Sharp Hardware." Men a... |
| Date: | 06 17 1927 |
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| Description: | A man and a young girl (daughter?) sitting in the open cab of an International Model 63 truck loaded with logs. |
| Date: | 03 09 1938 |
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| Description: | Men using an International T-20 TracTracTor (crawler tractor), PD-80, and P-300 owned by Sam Seppala of Grand Marais, to log white pine. The original capti... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | An International K-model truck with logs piled on its trailer parked next to a dirt ramp or embankment leading to a river(?). Industrial buildings are to t... |
| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | Men working at the Leighton-Wyoming mining camp stand near a large building, possibly a sawmill, related to the mining operation. A steep hill rises in the... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Emerson Brothers Sawmill with large piles of cut trees in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A view of Rudolph Herrling's sawmill and log yard in front of the Herling farm. |
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| Description: | Two men, two women, a girl, and a dog posed standing next to a man displaying two oxen. In the background are two men posed sitting on a wagon loaded with ... |
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| Description: | View down hill of a large group of men, some displaying horses, in front of a sawmill and its power plant. One of the men is holding a dog, and two of the ... |
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| Description: | Men posed standing around the temporary shelter of a steam-powered open-air saw, probably using a steam tractor for power. |
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| Description: | Group of men posed standing near and on two bobsleds loaded with logs and pulled by teams of four horses. There is an empty sled pulled by a team of four h... |
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| Description: | Logging camp with numerous bobsleds loaded with logs. Two men and two women are posed sitting in a sleigh pulled by a team of two horses in front of a wood... |
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| Description: | The log who was made King of Logs is here entombed eight round, ten long For his design, the strengthened forest capriciously outgrew them all... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Black and white postcard of a typical logging scene, showing a wagon, logs on the ground and two buildings. Caption reads: "Typical Logging Scene Near Colb... |
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| Description: | View of logs stacked closely together. Industrial buildings and trees are in the background. |
| Date: | 09 30 1927 |
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| Description: | Men are working under an open-sided roofed building among trees at the C.W. O'Halloran Co. A tractor is being used to belt-drive machinery. |
| Date: | 09 30 1927 |
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| Description: | Men are working at a sawmill at the C.W. O'Halloran Co. There is a tractor in the background that is being used to belt-drive machinery. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of several men standing and kneeling in front of mill buildings. There are logs floating near the sluice gate. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of sawmill. Subject: "Sawmills — UD-24 Power Unit." Where Taken: "NE." Information with photograph reads: "Here in a backwoods location is sh... |
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