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Loading Logs from Skids

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

Madeline Island Logging Camp

Date: 1910
Description: Madeline Island logging camp near Big Bay. Men preparing logs for a building, with three log buildings in background.
Drawing

Paul Bunyan

Date: 1916
Description: Drawing of a wild-looking Paul Bunyan.
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

Men Sawing Pine Tree

Date: 1913
Description: Two lumberjacks pose with a saw which they're using to fell a pine tree.
Photograph

Mining Camp Workers

Date: 09 1910
Description: Workers in the Leighton-Wyoming mining camp. The mining operation stretches up onto a steep hill littered with fallen trees. A two-story cabin is on the le...
Photograph

Men Working at Mining Camp

Date: 09 1910
Description: Workers at the Leighton-Wyoming mining camp. Piles of logs and boards are in the foreground.
Photograph

Log Driving Crew

Date: 1910
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.
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

Lumber Crew and Train Tracks

Date: 1915
Description: Logging company's railroad tracks and construction crew in a forest.
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...
Postcard

Lumbering in Wisconsin, Filling the Sprinkling Tank

Date: 1910
Description: Reproduction by the Museum and Local History Department of the Eau Claire Public Library of a black and white photograph of a lumbering crew filling the sp...
Photograph

Lumberjacks On the River

Date: 1910
Description: A bateau or york boat full of lumberjacks traveling down the river.
Postcard

Loading

Date: 06 06 1911
Description: Text on front reads: "Rib Lake, Wis.", "Loading." and "Brown Photo." A lumberjack is standing on a load of logs pulled by a team of horses. Three more men ...

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