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Hauling Logs With Oxen

Date: 1880
Description: Lumberjacks hauling logs with several teams of oxen.
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Skidding a Log

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Description: Man driving two horses which are skidding a log out of the woods to the logging road.
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River Drivers

Date: 1895
Description: Crew of river drivers moving logs off of rocks below a dam probably on the Wisconsin River.
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Sacking the Rapids

Date: 1890
Description: Log driving crew maneuvering logs through rapids below a dam, probably on the Wisconsin River.
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Place's Rapids on the Peshtigo River

Date: 1905
Description: Loggers known as "river pigs" round up stray logs with pikes and peaveys at Place's Rapids.
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Log Driving Crew

Date: 05 1909
Description: A log driving crew at Eagle Rapids Dam on the Chippewa River. Bottom of print reads: "Eagle Rapids Jam. May, 18-09."
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Sorting Logs in Northern Wisconsin

Date: 1900
Description: Log sorting operation on a river in Northern Wisconsin. Men stand on floating logs and maneuver them using cant hooks.

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