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Logging Scene

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Description: A two-man team of sawers work on a massive tree with a crosscut saw (right) while a man with an an axe waits to trim branches. The trunks are then cut down...
Photograph

Logging Scene

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Description: A view of a logging scene. White and African American workers are posing for a group portrait. Oxen are pulling logs, and other large logs are piled on bot...
Photograph

Logging Camp

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Description: Slightly elevated view of a logging camp, with a dozen or so men posing by the wagons, piles of logs and machinery. There are both logs and milled lumber. ...
Photograph

Oxen Hauling Logs

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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...
Print

Northwestern Lumber Co. Letterhead

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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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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: Four men posed standing and holding logging tools next to a team of two oxen. Two other men are sawing a tree with a two-handled saw.
Photograph

Men Logging

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

Men Logging

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Description: Five men posed standing and holding logging tools next to a team of two oxen in a snow-covered forest.
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Men Logging

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Description: Group of men posed standing and holding logging tools in the woods during winter next to two teams of two horses and a team of two oxen.
Photograph

Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posed standing in a snow-covered logging camp. In the background a man stands with an ox, and another man displays a team of two horses.
Photograph

Copy Photograph; Driving Oxen through a Logging Site

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Description: Copy photograph of an elevated view of a group of men standing and posing. They are driving their oxen among cut large trees.
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Copy Photograph; Logging

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Description: Copy photograph of logs being hauled by oxen. A group of seven lumberjacks are standing among the logs.
Photograph

Logging Scene

Date: 1890
Description: Outdoor group portrait of loggers with two teams of oxen.

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