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Raftsman's Series No. 1418: Putting Down A Springpole In The Dells

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of five men standing on a log and a plank of wood while another man is chopping at the log with an axe.
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Raftsman's Series Unnumbered: Going Through the Rapids

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of a man on the end of the raft as he prepares to pass through the water's rough rapids.
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Raftsman's Series Unnumbered: H.H. Bennett Pulling an Oar

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of photographer Henry Hamilton Bennett pulling an oar on a Wisconsin raft.
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Raftsman's Series Unnumbered: H.H. Bennett Rowing a Raft

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of photographer Henry Hamilton Bennett pulling an oar on a Wisconsin raft.
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Raftsman's Series Unnumbered: Men Working In The Water

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of several men working at dusk, knee deep in water attending to the raft.
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Raftsman's Series Unnumbered: The Crew

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of the raft's crew.
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Raftsman's Series Unnumbered: Rigging a Rope

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of a man as he rigs a rope around a log on a lumber raft.
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Raftsman's Series Unnumbered: Men Turning Logs

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of a group of men on a lumber raft holding a log vertical while other men push another log around it, creating a make-shift drill.
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Raftsman's Series Unnumbered: Man with Rope

Date: 1886
Description: A man tying a rope around a log on a lumber raft.
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Allis Reliance Works

Date: 05 04 1886
Description: Lumber yard with boxcars and factory buildings in the back. Made while factory was under protection of the State Militia during the first general labor str...
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Horses Pulling Lumber Sled

Date: 02 1892
Description: A team of four horses are pulling a sled loaded with a tall pile of logs in the snow. A group of four men stand near the sled. The ends of some of the logs...
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Lumber Rafts

Date: 1890
Description: Elevated view of men working on lumber rafts on the Wisconsin River.
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Men Surveying Debris

Date: 06 12 1899
Description: Two well-dressed men survey piles of debris left in the wake of a tornado. Part of the wall of a brick building is in the background.
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Hooded Woman Seated Near Debris

Date: 06 12 1899
Description: A hooded woman sitting on the remnants of a house. As the amount of debris and barren landscape can attest, the area around her had been leveled by a torna...
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Group Clearing Debris

Date: 06 12 1899
Description: A man works to clear debris in the aftermath of a tornado. Other men, women and children are gathered nearby.
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Smoldering Debris

Date: 06 12 1899
Description: Still smoldering fires and wreckage amidst debris left in the wake of a tornado.
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Firetruck Amid Debris

Date: 06 12 1899
Description: A firetruck with its hose hanging into the water is surrounded by debris and other wreckage left from a tornado.
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Tornado Damaged House

Date: 06 12 1899
Description: A woman and her young daughter stand in a yard examining a house in the aftermath of a tornado. The house has one entire side missing, a tree leans over on...
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Horse-Drawn Carriage Amid Tornado Debris

Date: 06 12 1899
Description: Side view of a group of people looking at the debris left by a tornado from a covered horse-drawn carriage. In the foreground the roof of a houselies on th...
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Men Working Among Rubble

Date: 06 12 1899
Description: A man wearing a hat stands among piles of rubble left in the wake of a tornado. A number of men are working in the large piles of debris, which includes lu...

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