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Loggers Top Loading a Log Bobsled

Date: 1900
Description: Loggers using pulley to top load logs on horse-drawn bob sled.
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Men at Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posing standing on the snow-covered ground in front of a log building. In the foreground one man is sitting on a pile of logs.
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Two Men with Steam Tractor

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Description: Two men operating a steam tractor/donkey used to haul logs. Piles of logs are stacked behind them.
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Man, Women and Child Among Logs

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Description: A man, two women, and a young child sit or stand among a large number of logs.
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Transporting Logs

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Description: Lumberjacks pose on top of loads of logs pulled by teams of four horses.
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Log Transportation

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Description: Two men stand on top of a load of logs that is pulled by a team of two horses.
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Cutting Christmas Trees for Market

Date: 1895
Description: A group of loggers at work in the woods with horses and a team of oxen. The men are cutting down fir trees to eventually be sold at market.
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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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Group in front of Sawmill

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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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Group in front of Sawmill

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Description: Men posed standing and sitting near the saw blade of an open sawmill.
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Men Sawing Timber

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Description: Men posed sawing timber using a steam-powered open-air saw.
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Men Sawing Timber

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Description: Men posed sawing timber using a steam-powered open-air saw.
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Men Posed by Saw

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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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Men Posed by Saw

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Description: Men posed using a steam-powered open-air saw, probably using a steam tractor for power.
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Men Posed Holding Logging Tools

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Description: Four men posed standing and holding logging tools next to a team of two oxen in the woods. Photographer's wagon in the background of C.R. Monroe, Traveling...
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Men Logging

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Description: Large group of men posed standing and holding logging tools with several teams of oxen and horses in the woods.
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Men Logging

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Description: Large group of men posed standing and holding logging tools with several teams of oxen and horses in the woods.
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Men Logging

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Description: Four men posed standing and holding logging tools next to a team of two oxen. Two other men are sawing a tree with a two-handled saw.
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Men Logging

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Description: Group of men posed standing and holding logging tools, including a long saw blade, next to and atop bobsleds pulled by a team of two oxen and a team of two...
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Men Logging

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Description: Logging crew of four men with a team of oxen hauling logs through a snow-covered forest.

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