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| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Log driving crew for the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company. Crew members are in the process of breaking a jam at the Big Eddy. One of the men is carrying a yo... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a group of men standing knee deep in water using handspikes probably in an attempt to dislodge a lumber raft from a sandbar or from the shor... |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a group of men on a raft. The man in the foreground is sitting and peeling potatoes. The young man splitting wood is Ashley Bennett, son of ... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a group of men "witching up." |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of three raftsmen standing in the river, probably on a sandbar, using wooden poles to hold or push against the rafts. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Workers push logs floating in the Wisconsin River into alignment to enter a building for processing. |
| Date: | 09 07 1930 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison Mechanical Engineering Building at 1513 University Avenue under construction. Men are working on the steel framework. A mas... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of several men working at dusk, knee deep in water attending to the raft. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Rear view of two Pawling & Harnischfeger 3-ton monorail hoists with lumber handling units laden with lumber and men in the cabs. Both hoists are stamped w... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger 3-ton monorail hoist in a lumber mill with a man in the cab. Text stamped on cab reads "Capacity 6,000 Lbs., No. 2573." In the lowe... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger 3-ton monorail hoist with lumber handling unit in the Pacific Lumber Co. lumberyard. There's a man in the cab and the text stamped ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | A Pawling & Harnischfeger 3-ton monorail hoist in lumber storage racks. There's a man in the cab, and another man standing at the bottom of one of the stac... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger 3-ton monorail hoist crane with lumber unit lowering its load at American Lumberman. There is an operator in the cab, and men on th... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Six Pawling & Harnischfeger 3-ton monorail hoists at a lumber mill (probably Pacific Lumber Co.). There are men on the ground as well as operating the cran... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger 5-ton monorail hoist with a lumber handling unit preparing to load lumber onto a boat in what is possibly Pensacola, Florida. Two m... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View from water of Pawling & Harnischfeger 5-ton monorail hoist with a lumber handling unit, possibly in Pensacola, Florida. The monorail track extends ove... |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Electric Crane & Manufacturing Company monorail hoist with lumber handling unit on a monorail track with an operator in the cab at Long Bell Lumb... |
| Date: | 10 18 1937 |
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| Description: | Workers saw logs at a sawmill site in a wooded area. The equipment was powered by an International PD-80 power unit. |
| Date: | 05 12 1925 |
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| Description: | View from street of two men standing near the A.F. Philip & Co. Ltd. storefront. The company was likely an International Harvester dealership. An automobil... |
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