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| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Men in bateaux for the Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company's log drive on the Chippewa River at Jim Falls. |
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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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| Description: | View from shoreline of log driving, with a large group of men using long poles to transfer logs from the land into the waterway. Logs can be seen in the ba... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Crew of river drivers moving logs off of rocks below a dam probably on the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Log driving crew maneuvering logs through rapids below a dam, probably on the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Logging crew standing on planks and logs possibly in a sorting works on the Yellow River. One man holds a ledger and the others hold long cant hooks. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Loggers known as "river pigs" round up stray logs with pikes and peaveys at Place's Rapids. |
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| Description: | Men holding axes and other tools stand atop a log jam on the Flambeau River. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Interior page of a pamphlet advertising the Best tractor for loggers. The text reads: "It is in getting the logs from the woods to the pond or mill that gr... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Lumbermen in a bateau descending rapids in an unidentified northern or north-central Wisconsin river. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A bateau or york boat full of lumberjacks traveling down the river. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Log sorting operation on a river in Northern Wisconsin. Men stand on floating logs and maneuver them using cant hooks. |
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