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| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | Two men are working together to cut down a large white pine tree on a Menominee Indian reservation. |
| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | A large, white pine tree is loaded on the back of a truck, ready to be hauled from a Menominee Indian reservation to the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | Stacks of logs cover a large flat area in the foreground, and in the distance is a complex of buildings at a sawmill. There are many large stacks of lumber... |
| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | Aspen logs are stacked in rows in front of the buildings of the American Excelsior Company. There are large frame buildings on the left, and a water tower ... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 09 30 1927 |
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| Description: | Men are working at a sawmill at the C.W. O'Halloran Co. There is a tractor in the background that is being used to belt-drive machinery. |
| Date: | 09 30 1927 |
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| Description: | Men are working under an open-sided roofed building among trees at the C.W. O'Halloran Co. A tractor is being used to belt-drive machinery. |
| Date: | 09 30 1927 |
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| Description: | Men are working at a sawmill at the C.W. O'Halloran Co. There is a tractor in the background that is being used to belt-drive machinery. |
| Date: | 09 30 1927 |
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| Description: | Men are working at a sawmill at the C.W. O'Halloran Co. There is a tractor in the background that is being used to belt-drive machinery. |
| Date: | 09 1976 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Eleven men are posing on or near a tall stack of logs on a sled. Some of the men are holding cant hooks. The logs are being hauled by a team of four horses... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View of logs gathering in water just past a sluicing gate. Three people are standing on top of the dam. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of several men standing and kneeling in front of mill buildings. There are logs floating near the sluice gate. |
| Date: | 07 24 1929 |
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| Description: | View down hill towards a man driving a truck up the hill with a large load of logs in the open truck bed. |
| Date: | 07 24 1929 |
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| Description: | View down dirt road towards a man driving up the road in a truck hauling logs. There is no cab on the truck, and painted on the right side of the engine co... |
| Date: | 07 24 1929 |
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| Description: | View towards front of International truck. A man is sitting in the driver's seat, and logs are in the truck bed behind him. The truck does not have a cab. ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Log sorting operation on a river in Northern Wisconsin. Men stand on floating logs and maneuver them using cant hooks. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View of a small river with logs piled on the left bank near an industrial building with a smokestack. Caption reads: "River Scene, Leopolis, Wis." |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Group of people standing around a tall stack of logs chained together on a sled. People are in a horse-drawn sled on the right. Caption reads: "Logging Sce... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | With ax in hand, Wallace Rumsey is standing on a gigantic fallen tree. Caption reads: "Wallace — Chopper." |
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