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International RDF-402 Logging Truck

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Description: Workers loading logs onto an International RF-230 logging truck owned by George M. Pierson. A man is in a forklift behind the truck, and another man is sta...
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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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International Crawler Tractor in Logging Operation

Date: 1940
Description: Rear view of a man pulling logs with an International TracTracTor (crawler tractor) on a logging road in a forest.
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Pacific Logging Congress Grounds

Date: 11 1947
Description: International Harvester equipment, including a TD-18 TracTracTor (crawler tractor), on display at the Pacific Logging Congress. Also on display are two lar...
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Truck Transporting Logs

Date: 1947
Description: An International K-model truck with logs piled on its trailer parked next to a dirt ramp or embankment leading to a river(?). Industrial buildings are to t...
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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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Big Load of Logs

Date: 1903
Description: A man sits atop a very high load of logs on a sled pulled by three horses. There is snow on the ground. Numbers are written on the cut ends of the logs.
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D-500-F Logging Truck

Date: 01 1940
Description: An International D-500-F truck owned by H.F. Ratcliff Wood & Logs travels along a snow-covered road through a wooded area.
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Ohio Match Company Truck

Date: 1940
Description: A man drives an International D-Line truck owned by The Ohio Match Company through a wooded area along a dirt road. The truck bed is laden with cut logs.
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Log Transport

Date: 1940
Description: Two men are loading logs onto the bed of an International D-Line truck. A forest and mountain are in the background.
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Timber Transport

Date: 1940
Description: An International D-line truck carries timber down a dirt road in a wooded area. The logs are so long, they require two trucks to carry them. The text on th...
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Truck Hauling Douglas Fir Logs

Date: 1940
Description: An International D-426-F truck and Isaacson 20-ton trailer hauls a load of enormous Douglas Fir logs through a wooded area in British Columbia.
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Transporting Logs

Date: 1938
Description: Three men use two International trucks to transport logs through a wooded area. The trucks were owned by F.J. Jacks, logger and retail lumberman.
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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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Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men, women and children standing on the snow-covered ground in front of a log building. Some of the men are posed holding logging tools, and two o...
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W.H. Rogers Lumber Co. Camp

Date: 1900
Description: Lumber camp group, W.H. Rogers Lumber Co., near Nashville.
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Logs in the Black River

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Description: View of a large group of logs on the rocky shoreline of a river. Buildings are along the opposite shoreline, also covered with logs. Identified as the Blac...
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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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Wood Carving at the Logging Congress

Date: 09 1976
Description: A man is carving a face onto a log using a chainsaw. Other men are looking at chainsaws displayed on a pile of birch tree logs. A sign on a trailer behind ...
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Downhill Haul of Logs

Date: 1890
Description: Six men are posing on and next to a large stack of logs, which are piled on a sled drawn by two horses. The men are all carrying cant hooks. The initials "...

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