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| Description: | Elevated view of a log jam. A man is sitting on logs in the center. Trees are along the shoreline on both sides. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of logs arranged in piles in a clearing with snow on the ground. Two workmen are standing on a pathway between them. In the background is a m... |
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| Description: | View of logs stacked closely together. Industrial buildings and trees are in the background. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Caption on negative sleeve reads, "Mining (?) town with view of saloon, restaurant and general store." A boardwalk runs along the fronts of the buildings. ... |
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| Description: | Winter view of Chippewa (Ojibwa) Valley village. |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company Camp 15. Lumberjacks posed atop a sled load of logs, scaled at 13,562 board feet of lumber. |
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| Description: | Cutover stump land showing a small wooden building on the lefthand side of the image. |
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| Description: | Forest destroyed by destructive logging followed by a fire. The right-hand side of the image shows where soil erosion has begun. |
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| Description: | Dells of the St. Louis River, at the head of the falls. Log pile at the left hand side. Man with pole on right. |
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| Description: | Expanse of land with tree stumps with trees and buildings in the background. |
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| Description: | Dells of the St. Louis River, at the bridge. Scattered limbless trees are in the background. |
| Date: | 03 13 1915 |
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| Description: | Several children clearing land for a new school playground. Three boys are using axes to chop a log, and other children are gathered near the fire. Three b... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Rear view of a man pulling logs with an International TracTracTor (crawler tractor) on a logging road in a forest. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man pulling logs with an International TD-18 Diesel TracTracTor (crawler tractor). The tractor was owned by the Pacific National Lumber Company and was e... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man operating an International TD-18 Diesel TracTractor (crawler tractor) in a logging operation. The tractor was owned by the Pacific National Lumber Co... |
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| Description: | A postcard with two views functioning as a "before" and "after" of forestry. The view on the left features a man standing in the distance among large trees... |
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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 ... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Men using a McCormick-Deering TracTractor (crawler tractor) to pull tree stumps from the ground. The men may be clearing the way for a road. |
| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | View looking down at men in a horse-drawn cart headed towards the Leighton-Wyoming mining camp on dirt road examining fallen trees, possibly from a forest ... |
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