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Description: | Train pulling a long load of logs through the woods. Horses replaced oxen teams and are used along with wood burning trains to haul logs. |
Date: | 1896 |
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Description: | Loggers posing on narrow-gauge railroad tracks with a railroad velocipede and cant hook near Saddle Mound, a large hill that dominates the local area in Ja... |
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Description: | Barn raising. The foundation is constructed from local fieldstone or "pudding stone," found in the nearby fields. A large group of men are is posing holdin... |
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Description: | Winter view of exterior of Lappley Bros. Lumberyard and Feed Mill. |
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Description: | Aldo Leopold, UW Professor of Wildlife Management, posing with binoculars around his neck. He is about to embark on an inspection and bird-watching tour of... |
Date: | 1886 |
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Description: | A fleet of rafts on the Wisconsin River below the Kilbourn dam. |
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Description: | Two lumberjacks pose at the base of a tree with a double-handled saw poised to cut. |
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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... |
Date: | 1899 |
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Description: | View along shoreline towards Indian log drivers, two in a bateau, and one man standing on the bank of the Chippewa River. |
Date: | 1880 |
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Description: | Two lumbermen posing with a two-man crosscut saw they are using on a fallen tree trunk, cutting the pine into manageable sizes for hauling. |
Date: | 07 23 1931 |
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Description: | Capital Times model home under construction at 2318 Monroe Street. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Four men from a logging crew posing standing in the snow with teams of horses and oxen. |
Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | Group portrait of a large logging crew posing outdoors in the snow at their camp in front of a log building. One of the men is playing a fiddle or a violin... |
Date: | 1886 |
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Description: | Stereograph view of several groups of men on rafts loaded with felled trees. |
Date: | 1913 |
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Description: | Workmen stand atop and in front of the remnants of the last remaining wing, the North Wing, of the third Wisconsin State Capitol building. |
Date: | 1909 |
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Description: | Men in bateaux for the Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company's log drive on the Chippewa River at Jim Falls. |
Date: | 1886 |
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Description: | A fleet of rafts on the Wisconsin River below the Kilbourn dam. |
Date: | 1887 |
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Description: | Two lumber rafts with men aboard floating down the Wisconsin River. |
Date: | 1886 |
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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... |
Date: | 1886 |
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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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