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Oxen Pulling a Wagon Filled with Logs

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Description: A team of eight oxen pulling a wagon filled with logs. One man is standing by the side of the oxen, while three other men wearing large hats and an African...
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Trainload of Logs

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Description: Several men are posing among logs on the ground near a train engine, which has continuous track (caterpillar) wheels and is pulling a load of logs on sledg...
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Log Hauling Train

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Description: Train pulling a long load of logs through the woods. Horses replaced oxen teams and are used along with wood burning trains to haul logs.
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Porters Mills Post Office Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Post Office in Porters Mills, Wisconsin, with a man putting mail into post office boxes, a padlocked mail bag that serves as a signboard ...
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Lumbering — TD-24 Tractor

Date: 1950
Description: View down road towards a man using a TD-24 tractor. Mountains are in the background. Subject: "Lumbering — TD-24 Tractor." Where Taken: "Pac." Information ...
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TD-24 — Lumbering

Date: 1950
Description: View down road towards a truck loaded with logs. The sign painted on the driver's side door reads: "Lloyd E. Larson, Arcata, Calif." Subject: "TD-24 — Lumb...
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John J. Sherman Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of John J. Sherman, a real estate broker and tax, title, collection, and passenger agent in Wausau, Wisconsin, with images of men felling trees ...
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Log Running on the Chippewa River

Date: 1904
Description: Logs floating down the river beneath the bridge on the Chippewa River. On the far shoreline are billboards. One advertises for "J.R. Sharp Hardware." Men a...
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Sorting Logs

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Description: View from shoreline of two men posed standing on log sorting piers half a mile above the Railroad Bridge on the Black River. There is a large log jam behin...
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View of Wausau, Wisconsin

Date: 1866
Description: Elevated view taken from the extreme end of Clark's Saw and Planing Mill. An old flour mill can be seen behind the bridge, and to the extreme right are thr...
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"The Old Way" & the New Way of Hauling Logs to Mill

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Description: View towards a train hauling many flatbed cars of logs. There is an inset photograph of a person on top of a stack of logs on a sleigh being pulled by an o...
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Winther Motor Company, Factory Product

Date: 1921
Description: Gasoline rail car manufactured by the Winther Motor and Truck Company, situated on railroad tracks.
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Winther Motor Company, Factory Product

Date: 1921
Description: Front view of gasoline rail car manufactured by the Winther Motor and Truck Company, situated on railroad tracks.
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Sawmills — U-6 Power Unit

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "Sawmills — U-6 Power Unit." Where Taken: "SW." Information with photograph reads: "U-6 Power Unit owned by Gaylord Container Corp., Walker, La. D...
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TD-24 — Lumbering

Date: 1950
Description: View uphill towards a man using a TD-24. Subject: "TD-24 — Lumbering." Where Taken: "Pac." Information with photograph reads: "TD-24 at work on a big try-o...
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Lumbering — TD-24 Tractor

Date: 1950
Description: Right side view of a man using a TD-24. Subject: "Lumbering — TD-24 Tractor." Where Taken: "Pac." Information with photograph reads: "The new TD-24 at work...
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TD-24 — Lumbering

Date: 1950
Description: View towards man using a TD-24 to load logs onto a truck. Mountains are in the background. Subject: "TD-24 — Lumbering." Where Taken: "Pac." Information wi...
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TD-24 — Lumbering

Date: 1950
Description: View down trail towards a man using a TD-24. Mountains are in the background. Subject: "TD-24 — Lumbering." Where Taken: "Pac." Information with photograph...
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View up the Eau Claire River

Date: 1900
Description: View up the Eau Claire River from the Dewey Street Bridge. The view shows the dam and linen mill and the site of the lower sawmill (called the "steam mill"...
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Winther Motor Company, Factory Product

Date: 1921
Description: Gasoline rail car manufactured by the Winther Motors Inc., factory.

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