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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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Loading Logs from Skids

Date: 02 1914
Description: Loggers moving logs onto a horse-drawn wagon in the snow.
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Husker and Shredder in Farm Yard

Date: 1902
Description: Group of men working with a tractor-powered husker and shredder in a farm yard. Men are standing on wagons, and there is a pile of boards in the yard. Part...
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Tanana Valley Railroad

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Description: Several men and a child stand near a train equipped with a snow plow. A passenger car sits nearby, and three men, possibly railroad employees, stand on the...
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Logging Camp

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Description: Slightly elevated view of a logging camp, with a dozen or so men posing by the wagons, piles of logs and machinery. There are both logs and milled lumber. ...
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Men Standing Near Logs

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Description: A view of two men standing on, and two men in front of, numerous logs. One man holds a long ruler for measuring the logs' diameters. A small covered work ...
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McCormick Reaper Works Factory

Date: 1900
Description: View across canal of the McCormick Reaper Works factory, rail yard, and surrounding buildings. Men in the foreground are stacking piles of lumber. After 19...
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Raftsman's Series No. 1406 : Trip Finished. Pulling Out The Lumber - Anaglyph

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of men unloading lumber off a raft. A man at the left loads lumber onto a horse-drawn wagon while a man in an apron holds the horses. There is ...
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Lumber Sled

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Description: Horse-drawn lumber sled loaded with logs. Five lumbermen are standing on and near sled.
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Men Logging

Date: 1941
Description: Men use two pieces of lumber to unload or load cut logs from the back of a truck outfitted with snow chains near Blairhampton in Ontario, Canada. On the ri...
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Logging Camp

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Description: A group of people, presumably loggers and camp employees, pose with horses at a logging camp. A muddy puddle is in the foreground, and behind the group are...
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Northwestern Lumber Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Northwestern Lumber Company of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, manufacturer of "Lath Shingles & Pickets," with two men in the woods, one poised with a...
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M.H. Wheeler Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of M.H. Wheeler, a lumberman from Florence, Wisconsin, with a man standing on a load of logs, holding the reins for two horses harnessed to the ...
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Men Unloading Lumber from Train

Date: 1900
Description: Men unload pieces of lumber from the opened boxcars of a train near the McCormick Reaper Works factory.
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Harrison Street Bridge

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Description: View from what appears to be a lumber yard of men posed standing on the newly constructed Harrison Street bridge that replaced one destroyed in the flood o...
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Blacksmith Shoeing Horse

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Description: Blacksmith posed shoeing a horse in the snow-covered lumberyard of a sawmill, while another man holds the horse's reins. A third man is posed standing next...
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Men Posed Holding Logging Tools

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Description: Four men posed standing and holding logging tools next to a team of two oxen in the woods. Photographer's wagon in the background of C.R. Monroe, Traveling...
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Men Logging

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Description: Five men posed standing and holding logging tools next to a team of two oxen in a snow-covered forest.
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Sawmill

Date: 1932
Description: A steam tractor provides power for a portable sawmill owned by Jake Karken. The large sawblade is still as men pose for the photographer. There is a team o...
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Log Bridge Under Construction

Date: 1918
Description: View looking down log bridge which is in the process of being built by a group of soldiers. The bridge crosses over a gully. In the distance is a horse-dra...

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