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Chippewa River Log Marks

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Description: A few typical Chippewa River log marks, including bark marks and end stamps.
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Carter's Siding

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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.
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Log Stamp Patterns

Date: 1951
Description: A collection of end stamp patterns used to identify the owners of logs, as exhibited in the Paul Bunyan Camp Museum in Carson Park.
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The McKinley Stump

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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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M. R. L. Company Log Marks

Date: 09 02 1908
Description: A list of log marks (symbols) dated "9/2/08".
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Axe Chopping at the Lumberjack Bowl

Date: 1970
Description: A shirtless man is standing on top of a log ready to chop a log with an axe. A crowd of people are watching from stands behind him.

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