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Saw Filer and Logging Crew

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Description: Logging crew and horses posed in snow.
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Logging Crew with Loaded Sleds

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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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Logging Crew with Cut Wood

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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.
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Logging Camp

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Description: A group of people, presumably loggers and camp employees, pose with horses at a logging camp. A muddy puddle is in the foreground, and behind the group are...
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Men Holding Pipes

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Description: Three men posed standing against a fence holding pipes in a yard. In the background is a river clogged with floating logs floating. Several wooden building...
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Hemlock Bark

Date: 1895
Description: The front (top) and back (bottom) of a promotional card advertising the large amounts of hemlock bark in Northern Wisconsin. The image shows three men sitt...
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Logging Camp

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Description: Men posed sitting and standing in a logging camp in front of a steam locomotive. A man in the middle foreground is posed sitting and playing a concertina. ...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 216-225

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Description: Our side of the fence is all dovetail — where they
winked and upset the story-book, that's
over on your side
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 684-689

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Description: "I am the man with measuring pole on my shoulder. At the age of 21 years I was sawing log in the woods. Since then I have seen the old time way go and the ...

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