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Stacked Logs

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Description: Long lines of stacked logs at the Halcyon Brickyard.
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Train Pulling Large Logs

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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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Lumberyard with Town in Background

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Description: A view of the lumberyard with the town in the background.
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Cross-Sections of Tree Trunks

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Description: Cross-sections of three tree trunks on a wooden floor.
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Ho-Chunk Child, Dog, and Winter Lodges

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Description: Ho-Chunk winter lodges among trees, probably a Ho-Chunk encampment at the cranberry marsh. There are large, cut logs in between two lodges. A small Ho-Chun...
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Three Women and Two Men

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Description: Outdoor portrait of three women and two men, all posing sitting on a wooden platform, perhaps in a lumber yard. A large open shed structure and stacks of t...
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Harrison Street Bridge

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Description: Men posed standing on the rocky river bank and bridge, probably the Harrison Street Bridge. A sign on the bridge says: "? Fine for driving or riding on thi...
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Harrison Street Bridge

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Description: View from what appears to be a lumber yard of men posed standing on the newly constructed Harrison Street bridge that replaced one destroyed in the flood o...
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Group of Men near Two Wooden Buildings

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Description: Group of men and a young girl posed standing and in wagons outside two large wooden buildings, possibly a sawmill. There is a row of barrels along the top ...
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Lumber Operation

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Description: View from hill of lumber operation, with stacks of timber and a sawmill in operation, probably McKenna in eastern Jackson County.
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Goodyear Mill

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Description: Lumberyard with railroad lines and a sawmill, probably the Goodyear Mill, three miles south of Saddle, or a mill located in McKenna.
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Men Posed Holding Logging Tools

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Description: Four men posed standing and holding logging tools next to a team of two oxen in the woods. Photographer's wagon in the background of C.R. Monroe, Traveling...
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Men Logging

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Description: Five men posed standing and holding logging tools next to a team of two oxen in a snow-covered forest.
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Group of Men Posed at Construction Site

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Description: Men posed standing at the construction site. They are probably laying the foundation of a building. A small wooden building in the background has a poster ...
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Group of People on a Bridge

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Description: View from shoreline of people, men, women and children, gathered in groups on a wooden bridge. A sign in the middle of the bridge reads: "$50 Fine for Cutt...
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Copy Photograph; Ice and Log Jam

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Description: Copy photograph of an ice jam on a river and a town.
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L&M Association Lumber Yard

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Description: Copy photograph of Black River Falls. L & M Association lumber yards is identified in the foreground.
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Tar Paper Shack at a Construction Site

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Description: View looking up towards a small building standing at the top of a slope. Equipment and piles of building material surround the tar paper shack. Probably a ...
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Steam Powered Saw Mill

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Description: View towards three men posing standing near a steam-powered open saw mill next to piles of logs.
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Steam Powered Saw Mill and Workers

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Description: Group portrait of a group of men sitting near an open steam-powered saw mill.

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