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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... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View from hill looking down at a wood framed warehouse building on a pier with boats docked alongside. Near the warehouse are fish net drying reels. Wooded... |
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| Description: | Group of men and children posed in front of large piles of snow-covered logs, ready to be dumped from landings into the river after the spring thaw. |
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| Description: | Group of men posed atop and among stacks of logs on landing. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men posed standing in a logging camp, displaying six teams of two oxen. One man is posed seated in a buggy pulled by a single horse, and a... |
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| Description: | View over snow-covered ground or a frozen river of a group of men sitting on piles of logs. Behind them on the right is a log sorting pier. There are two b... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a group of men posed standing and holding logs in a river with pike hooks. There appears to be a dog on the right of the group standing on... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of two men posed standing on log sorting piers half a mile above the Railroad Bridge on the Black River. There is a large log jam behin... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a log jam under a railroad bridge about half a mile from the Black River Falls Dam. On the opposite shoreline, men sit atop a fence.... |
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| Description: | Group of men and a boy posed holding logging tools and standing in front of tents on the banks of a river, probably just south of Black River Falls. A man ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Interior page of a pamphlet advertising the Best tractor for loggers. The text reads: "It is in getting the logs from the woods to the pond or mill that gr... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | This manuscript map of Taylor County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, lakes and streams, "Chippewa trails, Indian trails" Indian villages and... |
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| Description: | The log who was made King of Logs is here entombed eight round, ten long For his design, the strengthened forest capriciously outgrew them all... |
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| Description: | We tend to forget that at the time of the destruction of the forests, an emergency situation existed. The need for lumber for the building up of the... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Looking toward the Pinega River, showing the stairs and path to its shoreline, as well as a stacks of logs piled up along the shore. |
| Date: | 05 1909 |
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| Description: | A log driving crew at Eagle Rapids Dam on the Chippewa River. Bottom of print reads: "Eagle Rapids Jam. May, 18-09." |
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| Description: | Copy photograph of a log jam on a river. A lone logger is sitting in the center. |
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| Description: | Outdoor view, in stereograph form, looking up the Black River from Black River Falls. There are logs in the river in the foreground, and a bridge in the ba... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | This view is looking northeast from the site of Norway Springs at the north end of Trout Lake in the spring. In the foreground are tree stumps; in the back... |
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