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| Description: | A train pulls a load of very large tree trunks. Several men stand between the large logs. |
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| Description: | A postcard with two views functioning as a "before" and "after" of forestry. The view on the left features a man standing in the distance among large trees... |
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| Description: | A man in the background is standing on top of the logs that are being loaded onto a railcar. Four African American men at ground level are working to hoist... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Mogul 8-16 tractor used to power a lifting outfit to load large logs onto freight car. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Mogul tractor is used to power a lifting outfit to load large logs onto freight car. |
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| Description: | Rail siding and handcar with crew at Slashing, Waupaca County. Three men are standing on the handcar in the foreground. A young boy is sitting on a load of... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | At Hein's logging camp, a crane mounted on a railroad train lifts logs onto a flatbed railway car. Other logs are stacked on the snowy ground. A number of ... |
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| Description: | A railroad flatbed car loaded with logs and sitting on railroad tracks. |
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| Description: | An enormous log is secured on a flat rail car parked in a rail yard. Three men are making sure it is fastened properly. More logs are visible on rail cars ... |
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| Description: | Men posed sitting and standing in a logging camp in front of a steam locomotive. A man in the middle foreground is posed sitting and playing a concertina. ... |
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| Description: | Train-load of logs with wood-burning Heisher geared locomotive and train crew. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Yawkey-Bissell Lumber Co. main line logging railroad tracks “through virgin pine timber” south of Trout Lake. |
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| Description: | Copy photograph of a steam train pulling railroad cars loaded with large trees. |
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| Description: | Outdoor view of men standing with horses near a locomotive hauling logs through a forest. Two loggers are standing in the center. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| 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... |
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| Description: | Several men are posing among logs on the ground near a train engine, which has continuous track (caterpillar) wheels and is pulling a load of logs on sledg... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | View of Cathedral Woods and the fallen trees that were cut down to make way for the Holt Lumber Company railroad spur. Caption reads: "Cutting the R.R. rig... |
| Date: | 09 1919 |
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| Description: | View of a locomotive on the logging railroad spur, with the engineer. Three men are standing on the tracks. An automobile is parked below on the left in fr... |
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