Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 121-140 of 150

Photograph

Three Loggers with Team of Horses

Date: 
Description: Gust Larson, Morris Anderson and another man stand outdoors behind a team of two horses, snaking logs.
Postcard

Fountain-Campbell Company

Date: 1914
Description: Photographic postcard view of the log storage yard at the Fountain-Campbell Company. Snow is on the ground. Caption reads: "Fountain-Campbell Company, Dona...
Postcard

Lumbering in Wisconsin, Filling the Sprinkling Tank

Date: 1910
Description: Reproduction by the Museum and Local History Department of the Eau Claire Public Library of a black and white photograph of a lumbering crew filling the sp...
Photograph

Logging Scene

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of logs arranged in piles in a clearing with snow on the ground. Two workmen are standing on a pathway between them. In the background is a m...
Photograph

Loggers at a Logging Camp

Date: 
Description: View across snow towards a group of loggers, including two women, one holding a child in her arms, at a logging camp in winter.
Photograph

Logging Scene

Date: 
Description: View across snow towards men, women and children. Some people in the group are standing in the snow on the ground, and the other people are standing on top...
Photograph

Outdoor Portrait of Two Loggers

Date: 
Description: Two men are standing in the snow at a logging camp. In the background are railroad tracks, and two pigs foraging around buildings.
Photograph

Group Portrait of Men at Logging Camp

Date: 
Description: Outdoor group portrait of men posing together at a logging camp. There is also a family with five children, and a dog in the center.
Photograph

Door County Logging

Date: 
Description: Winter logging operations in Door County. Men are posing on a sled pulled by horses, and piles of logs are on either side of an icy road.
Photograph

Logging Train

Date: 1890
Description: View across stacks of logs towards a group of men posing near or on a logging train. There are two teams of oxen near the stacked logs, and snow is on the ...
Postcard

Logging Scene

Date: 
Description: Two loggers and two draft horses standing near a tree stump. One man is on a sled with a log.
Postcard

Sledding out the Logs

Date: 1910
Description: View of men transporting logs on horse-drawn sleds in the northwoods. Caption on back reads, in part: "Even the camp cook gets his photo taken."
Photograph

"Old Vanderbilt" Locomotive

Date: 1890
Description: Upham Lumber Company locomotive, "Old Vanderbilt," built by the Taunton Locomotive Works in 1847 from the New York providence and Boston Railroad where she...
Photograph

Forest Ranger and a Logger

Date: 
Description: Two men are standing in a forest wearing hard hats. The man on the left is bracing a foot on a cut logs, near a chainsaw resting on the pile of logs. The m...
Photograph

A "Landing" — Lake Ice 2 or 3 Feet Thick

Date: 1890
Description: View of a man standing on a log among a large pile of logs spread out on the snow-covered ice of a lake. He is leaning on the handle of what may be a cant ...
Photograph

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 "...
Photograph

Lunch at the Lumber Camp

Date: 1890
Description: View up slope towards a group of men posing in the snow alongside a table with pots and dishes on it. An ox with a yoke and a pair of wooden staves is stan...
Photograph

2 Ox Power Jammer at Work

Date: 1890
Description: Five men are posing on or near a tall stack of logs on a sled, with more logs being added. Three of the men are carrying cant hooks, and two horses are yok...
Photograph

Four Horses Pulling a Haul of Logs

Date: 1890
Description: Five men are posing on or near a sled piled high with logs, which is being hauled by a team of four horses.
Photograph

Oxen in Harness with Haul of Logs

Date: 1887
Description: Seven men are posing on or near a haul of logs loaded onto a sled. Some of the men are holding cant hooks. A team of oxen are yoked to the sled.

Have Questions?

If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.

Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at: