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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Roddis Lumber and Veneer Company locomotive Number 1, loaded with logs and flanked by large piles of logs. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Steam log hauler made by Phoenix Manufacturing Company of Eau Claire, pulling loaded skids through snow. Rice Lake lumber camp, overland spur. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Steam crane loading lumber onto a railroad car for use at an International Harvester sawmill. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Two workers perched on a steam locomotive pulling railroad cars loaded with logs. The coal car bears the name "Deering Southwestern Railway." The railway w... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | A work crew of the Upham Lumber and Manufacturing Company near Athens, Wisconsin. The men are riding on a flatbed car of the Abbottsford and Northeastern R... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Logging Museum in Rhinelander. Caption reads: "Museum, Rhinelander, Wis." |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of an International Harvester sawmill, with logs stacked on railroad cars on a railroad track. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Two men are standing on a log suspended from a steam powered crane at an International Harvester logging operation. Large logs are in the foreground. |
| 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. |
| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Yawkey-Bissell Lumber Co. main line logging railroad tracks “through virgin pine timber” south of Trout Lake. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View across snowy ground towards a steam-belching train engine on the right pulling flatbeds of stacked logs near a forest of tall pines. Caption reads: "L... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards train flatbeds stacked with large pine logs. There is a man standing further down the tracks looking towards the flatbe... |
| 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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