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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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Loggers Dining at Camp

Date: 1907
Description: Loggers at dinner in the woods north of Glen Flora. The man in the center is filing his saw.
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Loggers in Bateaux

Date: 1900
Description: Log driving crew on river in five bateaux. In the background on the left is a bridge.
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Peshtigo Log Jam

Date: 1907
Description: Loggers breaking up a log jam in the Peshtigo River area.
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Big Falls Logging Crew

Date: 1900
Description: Four men from a logging crew posing standing in the snow with teams of horses and oxen.
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Breaking Log Jam on Chippewa River

Date: 1903
Description: Three barefoot boys stand on a pile of logs in the foreground looking across the river at a group of men working to free a log jam in the Big Eddy on the C...
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Log Drive at Jim Falls

Date: 1909
Description: Men in bateaux for the Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company's log drive on the Chippewa River at Jim Falls.
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Goar and Stinson Log Driving Crew

Date: 1902
Description: The Goar and Stinson log driving crew on the Clam River.
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Town of Irma

Date: 1900
Description: The town buildings in Irma. Many stumps and milled logs are in the foreground.
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Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company Log Driving Crew

Date: 1905
Description: Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company log driving crew on the Chippewa River.
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Brunette Falls on the Chippewa River

Date: 1908
Description: Brunette Falls on the Chippewa River. Several logs are jammed on a rock formation in the river.
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Log Running on the Chippewa River

Date: 1904
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...
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Log Jam at Big Eddy

Date: 1905
Description: Log jam at Big Eddy on the Chippewa River during the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company log drive. There is a bridge in the distance, and trees are along the s...
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Logging on a Reservation

Date: 1909
Description: A group of Native American Indian loggers pose on piles of logs at the Courtes Oreilles Reservation.
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Ole Emerson's Lumber Property

Date: 1904
Description: Winter scene with lumber workers hauling a large log with horses.
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Cutting Crew in the Woods

Date: 1900
Description: A cutting crew of three men posing in the woods with a work horse next to felled trees.
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Log Jam on Wisconsin River

Date: 1900
Description: Two women and one man in street clothes and wearing hats posing among the logs of a large log jam on the Wisconsin River.
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Emerson Bros. Sawmill

Date: 1908
Description: Emerson Brothers Sawmill with large piles of cut trees in the foreground.
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Place's Rapids on the Peshtigo River

Date: 1905
Description: Loggers known as "river pigs" round up stray logs with pikes and peaveys at Place's Rapids.
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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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