Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Log driving crew on river in five bateaux. In the background on the left is a bridge. |
Date: | 1909 |
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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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Description: | Group of lumber workers standing on logs floating in Beef Slough. |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company log driving crew on the Chippewa River. |
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Description: | Winter view with men logging on the Little Wolf River during the winter of the "blue snow". Logs are being decked on the ice and along the shore. Horse te... |
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Description: | Stacks of logs are in the foreground with a man in a hat near the river. There is a chimney billowing smoke near the factory. |
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Description: | View from shoreline of log driving, with a large group of men using long poles to transfer logs from the land into the waterway. Logs can be seen in the ba... |
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Description: | Elevated view of two men standing on log booms which cover much of the river's surface. In the background are trees and a bridge. |
Date: | 1895 |
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Description: | Crew of river drivers moving logs off of rocks below a dam probably on the Wisconsin River. |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Log driving crew maneuvering logs through rapids below a dam, probably on the Wisconsin River. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Logging crew standing on planks and logs possibly in a sorting works on the Yellow River. One man holds a ledger and the others hold long cant hooks. |
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Description: | Log driving crew sitting down for lunch on the bank of a river (probably the Trap River or Rib River). There is a batteau at the water's edge, and one man ... |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Loggers known as "river pigs" round up stray logs with pikes and peaveys at Place's Rapids. |
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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 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: | 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 ... |
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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: | 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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