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| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a barn raising on the farm of Alva Paddock in the township of Salem on Geneva Road, Highway 50. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A group of loggers at work in the woods with horses and a team of oxen. The men are cutting down fir trees to eventually be sold at market. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of logs tugged across Lake Superior to the harbor at Ashland. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | A crowd surrounds a man as he stands atop a tree trunk swinging his axe in a woodchopping contest. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A deer is standing next to a man as he is boiling maple sap over a fire pit in the woods at Blue Farm. Steam and smoke are rising up into the air. On the r... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A man sawing the top log in a pile of firewood with a handsaw. There is snow on the ground, and he is dressed warmly. Behind him is a tree, a stone and woo... |
| Date: | 05 1955 |
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| Description: | Apple blossoms in an orchard in the spring. Stacked logs are in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | A man is cooking maple syrup over a wood fire among trees. Steam is billowing from the kettle. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Steam and smoke billow as a man is boiling maple syrup on the Harvey Blue farm. |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across a granite quarry looking west, with Buffalo Lake in the background. Buildings of the town are between the quarry and the lake, and a p... |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | An older woman is splitting wood on a farm. She is wearing a dress and apron. |
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