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Loggers Dining at Camp

Date: 1907
Description: Loggers at dinner in the woods north of Glen Flora. The man in the center is filing his saw.
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Tent at Tent Colony

Date: 06 27 1931
Description: Man sawing wood in front of a tent in the woods at the University of Wisconsin Tent Colony. The tent is set up on a wood platform. Also known as Camp Galli...
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Home Workshop

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Description: A man cuts a block of wood on a table saw in his workshop.
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Madison Soap Box Derby, Car Construction

Date: 04 09 1948
Description: Building Soap Box Derby racers in the workshop of the Neighborhood House, 768 West Washington Avenue, are Virgil Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Johnso...
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Farmall Regular Tractor at Mid-South Fair

Date: 1929
Description: A Farmall Regular tractor stands on outdoor display near a tent at the Mid-South Fair. A sign reading: "Farm With Farmalls; The All-Purpose Tractor; Intern...
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4-H Club Week

Date: 02 26 1949
Description: Gene Ryberg, member of Silver Badgers 4-H Club, using a saw while working on a handicraft project.
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Studio Portrait of Two Lumberjacks

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Description: A studio portrait of two men, probably lumberjacks, that are posed playing cards, drinking, and smoking in front of a painted backdrop. The two men are sit...
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Studio Portrait of Two Lumberjacks Drinking

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Description: Two unidentified white men, dressed as lumberjacks, sit on a wood log in Van Schaick's studio, drinking, smoking and playing cards, with a saw and an axe n...
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Syl Sawing Wood

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Description: Syl sawing wood from the hull of an overturned rowboat on a small sawhorse. Behind him is a deck overhanging a steep cliff with a river or lake below. A ho...
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Theresa Lions Club Cleanup Day

Date: 1976
Description: "Theresa Lions Club members have a cleanup day on the Rock River."
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Sawing Logs

Date: 01 1928
Description: Two men use a crosscut saw to cut a hemlock log while a third watches. A splitting maul and a splitting wedge rest on a tree stump in the foreground. Smoke...
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Children Sawing Wood

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Description: Two children are kneeling while sawing a log of wood with a hand saw, while a third child is watching in the center. Behind them are picnic tables in the s...
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Wood Carving at the Logging Congress

Date: 09 1976
Description: A man is carving a face onto a log using a chainsaw. Other men are looking at chainsaws displayed on a pile of birch tree logs. A sign on a trailer behind ...
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Three Sisters with the "H" They Made

Date: 1906
Description: Three wood workers are showing the "H" which they made out of birch logs. From left to right: Lucy Holt, Minnie May Rumsey and possibly Juliet Rumsey Stroh...
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Splitting Wood

Date: 1935
Description: One of two images under the headline: "Trials of Pioneers Bring Families Closer Together." Original caption reads, in part: "Families are knit more closely...
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Making a Stoneboat for Hauling Water

Date: 1935
Description: Three men are kneeling on the ground working with a saw. The men are wearing hats with mosquito nets on them. Mountains are in the background. Caption with...
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Lester Monroe Sharpening Cross-Cut Saw

Date: 1935
Description: A man is standing and sharpening a saw outdoors. On the left is a coaster wagon. In the background are adults and children standing in front of tents. Capt...

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