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Big Falls Logging Crew

Date: 1900
Description: Four men from a logging crew posing standing in the snow with teams of horses and oxen.
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Hauling Logs With Oxen

Date: 1880
Description: Lumberjacks hauling logs with several teams of oxen.
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Logging Crew

Date: 1895
Description: A Knapp, Stout & Company crew with J. Bracklin (in fur coat), logging superintendent.
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Loading Logs from Skids

Date: 02 1914
Description: Loggers moving logs onto a horse-drawn wagon in the snow.
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Logging in the Blue Snow

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Description: Winter view with men logging on the Little Wolf River during the winter of the "blue snow". Logs are being decked on the ice and along the shore. Horse te...
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Cutting Crew in the Woods

Date: 1900
Description: A cutting crew of three men posing in the woods with a work horse next to felled trees.
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Horses Pulling Logs

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Description: View across snow-covered ground toward a man posing on top of a stack of logs while holding the reins of the horses who are pulling. In the background are ...
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Saw Filer and Logging Crew

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Description: Logging crew and horses posed in snow.
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Skidding a Log

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Description: Man driving two horses which are skidding a log out of the woods to the logging road.
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Auburndale Camp

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Description: Elevated view of logging crew posed outside a log cabin in winter. Several horses are at the back of the group. The foreman, Mike Baltus, is possibly at fr...
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Logging Crew with Cut Wood

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Description: Group of men posed with 13,260 feet of cut lumber on a horse-drawn sled in winter. Some of the men hold cant hooks.
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Lumber Sled

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Description: Horse-drawn lumber sled loaded with logs. Five lumbermen are standing on and near sled.
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Men Logging

Date: 1941
Description: Men use two pieces of lumber to unload or load cut logs from the back of a truck outfitted with snow chains near Blairhampton in Ontario, Canada. On the ri...
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Horses at a Logging Camp

Date: 1884
Description: The logging camp of Bruno Vinett. About a dozen horses, most in harness, and a similar number of men stand in front of a barn-like building and a small woo...
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Loading Logs with Pulleys

Date: 1938
Description: A group of men from the Newaygo Lumber Company use a pulley system to lift logs off the snow-covered ground. A team of horses stands on the right.
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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. ...
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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,...
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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: Large group of men posed standing and holding logging tools with several teams of oxen and horses in the woods.
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Men Logging

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Description: Logging crew of four men with a team of oxen hauling logs through a snow-covered forest.

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