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John J. Sherman Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of John J. Sherman, a real estate broker and tax, title, collection, and passenger agent in Wausau, Wisconsin, with images of men felling trees ...
Photograph

Lumber Camp Scene

Date: 1911
Description: Group portrait of loggers and support staff in a lumber camp. In front (holding dog) is T.J. Thompson, a man that traveled using a sled pulled by his dog. ...
Photograph

Lumber Camp Scene

Date: 1910
Description: Group portrait of loggers in a lumber camp. In front, seated on his sled, is T.J. Thompson. He traveled among the lumber camps between Winter and Raddison,...
Photograph

Men at Joe Levine's Camp #4

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Description: A group portrait of the men at Joe Levine's camp no. 4. Included in the portrait are a dog, oxen, horses and a dead deer.
Postcard

Logging

Date: 1908
Description: Colorized postcard of loggers posing with logs piled on horse-drawn sleds. Caption reads: "Logging, Athens, Wis."
Photograph

Lumber Camp Group

Date: 1881
Description: Archie Young and crew at Yellow River camp.
Photograph

Log Loading

Date: 1886
Description: Men loading logs at D.J. Arpin's Crooked Reef camp.
Photograph

Locomotive Trailing Logs

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Description: Train-load of logs with wood-burning Heisher geared locomotive and train crew.
Photograph

Lumbermen Descending Rapids

Date: 1900
Description: Lumbermen in a bateau descending rapids in an unidentified northern or north-central Wisconsin river.
Photograph

Young Lumberjacks

Date: 1920
Description: Two timber sawyers standing posed with their tools in a forest. Both men wear heavy mittens, and the man on the left is carrying a saw across his left shou...
Postcard

Horse-Drawn Logging Sled

Date: 1916
Description: Black and white photographic postcard of a horse-drawn sled loaded with logs coming out of the woods. One or two men are driving the sled, and a man is wal...
Photograph

Loggers Posing with Team of Horses and Sled

Date: 1889
Description: Outdoor group portrait of ten men standing behind a team of two horses in the snow. Standing directly behind the horses in front of the sled loaded with lo...
Photograph

Three Loggers with Team of Horses

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Description: Gust Larson, Morris Anderson and another man stand outdoors behind a team of two horses, snaking logs.
Photograph

Lumber Camp Amusement

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Description: Group of lumberjacks entertaining themselves in camp by tossing a man in the air using a blanket. The man in the foreground with his back to the camera is ...
Photograph

Sorting Logs in Northern Wisconsin

Date: 1900
Description: Log sorting operation on a river in Northern Wisconsin. Men stand on floating logs and maneuver them using cant hooks.
Photograph

Logging

Date: 1900
Description: A copy of an older photograph of a logging scene. In the foreground a man is holding the reins of a pair of horses, another man is standing beside him; beh...
Postcard

Scene Near Rice Lake

Date: 10 23 1909
Description: Text on front reads: "Scene Near Rice Lake, Wis." Five lumberjacks pose with a load of logs on a sled pulled by horses. Two skids lean against the logs. Th...

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