Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | Elevated view of lumber raft and workers on the Chippewa River. In the background on the right are dwellings. |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Log driving crew for the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company. Crew members are in the process of breaking a jam at the Big Eddy. One of the men is carrying a yo... |
Date: | 1907 |
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Description: | Loggers breaking up a log jam in the Peshtigo River area. |
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Description: | Indians (Native Americans) unloading logs at the sawmill on the Menominee Reservation. |
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Description: | Winter view with men logging on the Little Wolf River during the winter of the "blue snow". Logs are being decked on the ice and along the shore. Horse te... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Two logging workers pose with their team of horses who are hitched to a go-devil, used for skidding logs to a road or landing. |
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Description: | Stacks of logs are in the foreground with a man in a hat near the river. There is a chimney billowing smoke near the factory. |
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Description: | Two views in postcard format. The view on left is of two lumberjacks sitting in front of a tree, each holding an axe. To the left is a large saw used for f... |
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Description: | View from shoreline of log driving, with a large group of men using long poles to transfer logs from the land into the waterway. Logs can be seen in the ba... |
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Description: | Elevated view of two men standing on log booms which cover much of the river's surface. In the background are trees and a bridge. |
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Description: | View of a log raft secured to a dock or barge on the right. Men are standing on the raft chaining the logs together in one compact load. A man is walking n... |
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Description: | Logging crew with two large loads of logs on horse-drawn sleds ready for the mill. Foreman, Mike Baltus, stands in the foreground. Also pictured are A. Cli... |
Date: | 01 06 1918 |
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Description: | Lumber crew posed with a steam hauler and several sleds loaded with logs. The foreman's sleigh pulled by a horse is in the foreground. Possibly foreman, Mi... |
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Description: | Group of men posed with 13,260 feet of cut lumber on a horse-drawn sled in winter. Some of the men hold cant hooks. |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Log driving crew maneuvering logs through rapids below a dam, probably on the Wisconsin River. |
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Description: | Log driving crew sitting down for lunch on the bank of a river (probably the Trap River or Rib River). There is a batteau at the water's edge, and one man ... |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Loggers known as "river pigs" round up stray logs with pikes and peaveys at Place's Rapids. |
Date: | 1887 |
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Description: | Mill workers in the yard at Ramsay & Jones Mill. |
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Description: | Horse-drawn lumber sled loaded with logs. Five lumbermen are standing on and near sled. |
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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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