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Landed and Looking for Camp #176

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Description: High Rock; the base with two rowboats. One man is sitting in a rowboat, and one man is standing on rocks and sand holding an oar.
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Devil's Football

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Description: Devil's Football. There is a boy standing on a log at the right near the rock formation.
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Sugar Bowl

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Description: Sugar Bowl rock formation. In the foreground is a man in rowboat with the name "Hattie" painted on its side. The river is smooth as glass, and on the oppos...
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Raftsman's Series Unnumbered: Man Throwing A Rope

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Description: Stereograph of a man on a raft throwing a rope.
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Navy Yard

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Description: Navy Yard viewed from the water level.
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Witches' Gulch

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Description: Elevated view of Witches' Gulch, with a view up the river through trees, from the mouth of Witches' Gulch.
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Rafts at Swallows Nests

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Description: Swallows Nests, south face, with lumber rafts at the base.
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Boy at Witches' Gulch Bracket

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Description: Bracket at the mouth of Witches' Gulch, with boy a posing sitting on the edge.
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Black Hawk's Leap

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Description: Rock overhanging the river at Black Hawk's Leap.
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Sexton's Eddy

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Description: Sexton's Eddy, up the river and opposite. There is a steamboat in the distance.
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Steamboat from Sexton's Landing

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Description: View from Sexton's Landing of the river and a steamboat. (Steamboat probably Alexander Mitchell).
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Clam Banks with Steamboat

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Description: Clam Banks; upstream from Arm Chair with steamboat passing, (probably the "New Dell Queen").
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Steamboat "Alexander Mitchell" Leaving Kilbourn Landing

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Description: Elevated view of the steamboat Alexander Mitchell leaving Kilbourn landing.
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H.H. Bennett and Dark Tent at Gates Ravine

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Description: View up the river from behind Gates Ravine. There is a boat and dark tent at the edge of the river. H.H. Bennett is sitting on rowboat with his wetplate te...
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Raftsman's Series No. 1404; Laying Up For Wind And Drying Out

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Description: Group of eight men sitting on shore around a fire, with the river and a boat in the background.
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Raftsman's Series No. 1405: Pastime. Dick Dancing For The Boys

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of a group of men standing and sitting on a raft, watching Dick Stevenson in the center dancing. Zack Dugas is at left clapping time, and Jack ...
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Raftsman's Series No. 1406 : Trip Finished. Pulling Out The Lumber

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of men unloading lumber off a raft. A man at the left is loading lumber onto a horse-drawn wagon, while a man in an apron is holding the horses...
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Raftsman's Series No. 1407: Arpin Avenue. Boys Turning Out Of Bunks on Cook Float

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of four men sitting by and lying in wooden a-frame shaped "bunks" on the Cook Float. Mike Lane, the Cook, is the nearest man just crawling out ...
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Raftsman's Series No. 1410; Pulling In A Grub

Date: 1886
Description: Three men on raft pulling in a grub. In the background are logs floating in the water, and a man carrying a log.
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Raftsman's Series No. 1411: Witching Up

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of a group of men "witching up."

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