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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline over river towards the town. |
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| Description: | Forest destroyed by destructive logging followed by a fire. The right-hand side of the image shows where soil erosion has begun. |
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| Description: | Knapp-Stout and Company Sawmill on the Red Cedar River, with dam and logs in the foreground. |
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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. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Madeline Island logging camp near Big Bay. Men preparing logs for a building, with three log buildings in background. |
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| Description: | View of a man standing in front of a huge wooden stump called the McKinley stump which is housed under a small gazebo. A sign relates that the tree was cut... |
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| Description: | Logging crew with two large loads of logs on horse-drawn sleds ready for the mill. Foreman, Mike Baltus, stands in the foreground. Also pictured are A. Cli... |
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| Description: | Man driving two horses which are skidding a log out of the woods to the logging road. |
| Date: | 01 06 1918 |
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| Description: | Lumber crew posed with a steam hauler and several sleds loaded with logs. The foreman's sleigh pulled by a horse is in the foreground. Possibly foreman, Mi... |
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| Description: | Group of men posed with 13,260 feet of cut lumber on a horse-drawn sled in winter. Some of the men hold cant hooks. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Chief Niles and other Brotherton men sawing logs. |
| 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: | 1911 |
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| Description: | The first forestry building at Trout Lake Headquarters. It served the crew for eating and sleeping while they were clearing for the nursery site in progres... |
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