Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 22

Photograph

Logging Crew and Railroad

Date: 1888
Description: A logging crew of the Upham Lumber Company, together with the company's locomotive, "Old Vanderbilt," formerly the Wisconsin Central Railroad's Engine No #...
Photograph

Woodruff Mill

Date: 
Description: Bissell Lumber Company. Workers are posing outdoors in front of a building. Cut trees can be seen in the background. A horse-drawn vehicle is on the right...
Photograph

Horses with a Go-Devil

Date: 1910
Description: Two logging workers pose with their team of horses who are hitched to a go-devil, used for skidding logs to a road or landing.
Photograph

Lumberjacks Resting and Logs Rolling Down the Track

Date: 
Description: Two views in postcard format. The view on left is of two lumberjacks sitting in front of a tree, each holding an axe. To the left is a large saw used for f...
Photograph

Oxen Hauling Logs

Date: 
Description: Oxen haul a cart near a stack of logs. A man stands on top of the cart. In the background is the forest. Caption reads: "A Pine Tree Forest near Pocomoke C...
Photograph

Transporting Logs from the Forest

Date: 
Description: A man in the background is standing on top of the logs that are being loaded onto a railcar. Four African American men at ground level are working to hoist...
Photograph

Horses Pulling Logs

Date: 
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 ...
Photograph

Saw Filer and Logging Crew

Date: 
Description: Logging crew and horses posed in snow.
Photograph

Logging Crew with Cut Wood

Date: 
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.
Photograph

Lumber Sled

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

Northwestern Lumber Co. Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of Northwestern Lumber Company of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, manufacturer of "Lath Shingles & Pickets," with two men in the woods, one poised with a...
Print

M.H. Wheeler Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of M.H. Wheeler, a lumberman from Florence, Wisconsin, with a man standing on a load of logs, holding the reins for two horses harnessed to the ...
Print

John J. Sherman Letterhead

Date: 
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: 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,...
Postcard

Logging

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

Log Loading

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

Locomotive Trailing Logs

Date: 
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.
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...

Have Questions?

If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.

Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at: