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Men Behind a Stove and Tables

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Description: Five men are standing in a row behind a stove and long tables. Interior of what may be a lumber camp cook shack.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 507-513

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Description: We tend to forget that at the time of the destruction of the forests, an emergency situation existed. The need for lumber for the building up of the...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 684-689

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Description: "I am the man with measuring pole on my shoulder. At the age of 21 years I was sawing log in the woods. Since then I have seen the old time way go and the ...
Photograph

Lumber Camp Group

Date: 1881
Description: Archie Young and crew at Yellow River camp.
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W.H. Rogers Lumber Co. Camp

Date: 1900
Description: Lumber camp group, W.H. Rogers Lumber Co., near Nashville.
Photograph

Group Portrait of Lumberjacks

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of lumberjacks. Some of the men in the background appear to be standing on the roof of a log building. Two dogs are in the foregroun...
Photograph

Outdoor Group Portrait of Unidentified Workmen and a Rabbit

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of a group of workmen, probably at a lumber camp. The man sitting in the front in the center is holding a rabbit. A building is in t...
Photograph

Loggers at a Logging Camp

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Description: View across snow towards a group of loggers, including two women, one holding a child in her arms, at a logging camp in winter.
Photograph

Loggers at a Logging Camp

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of loggers at a logging camp. Snow is on the ground, and horses are standing in the back near log buildings.
Photograph

Men Posing at Lumber Yard

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Description: View across field of scrub grass towards a group of men, some in work clothes and other men wearing suits, standing in a lumberyard at a logging camp. Ther...
Photograph

Outdoor Portrait of Two Loggers

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Description: Two men are standing in the snow at a logging camp. In the background are railroad tracks, and two pigs foraging around buildings.
Photograph

Group of People at Logging Camp

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Description: Elevated outdoor group portrait of men assembled at a logging camp. Horses are on the left, and a locomotive hauling cars of logs is in the background.
Photograph

Group Portrait of Men at Logging Camp

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of men posing together at a logging camp. There is also a family with five children, and a dog in the center.
Photograph

Logging Scene

Date: 1890
Description: Elevated group portrait of loggers at a logging camp posing in the snow. Some of the men are posing on the roof of the log building in the center. Men are ...
Map or Atlas

Werner, Wisconsin

Date: 1974
Description: This map shows streets, businesses and parks. The Yellow River is labeled. The Plat shows saw mills and land owned by D.R.W. Williams, Wm. Williams, and Jo...
Photograph

Camp One Lumber Camp

Date: 1914
Description: View across clear cut area towards horses grazing near log cabins at Camp One Lumber Camp, north of Chicago Bay.
Photograph

Biddy the Pig

Date: 1914
Description: One of the boys posing with Biddy the pig, who is lying in the road at Camp One Lumber Camp.
Photograph

McFarland Lake Camp

Date: 1914
Description: Elevated view looking over trees towards the lumber camp on McFarland Lake, which was owned by the Pigeon River Lumber Company.
Photograph

Camp Cook Shack

Date: 1914
Description: An interior view of the kitchen at the Pigeon River Lumber Camp at McFarland Lake. There are cooking utensils and supplies on long tables and counters. Th...
Photograph

Mullen at a Lumber Camp

Date: 1914
Description: Mullen sitting next to a log cabin and reading at a lumber camp on McFarland Lake.

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