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Railroad Grade

Date: 04 1959
Description: The Mississippi River Logging Company's railroad grade two miles south of Weyerhaeuser over Soft Maple Creek, built about 1875-76.
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Carter's Siding

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Description: Carter's Siding, a small railroad depot in "cutover" country, showing strong evidence of why formerly forested regions of northern Wisconsin were so named.
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Logging with a TD-18 Crawler Tractor

Date: 1940
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...
Map or Atlas

Map of Wisconsin Land Grant Limits

Date: 1881
Description: A brochure with a map of Wisconsin that also includes information (in English, German, Norwegian, and Swedish) pertaining to the state, such as its timber ...
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Log Jam

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Description: View from shoreline of a log jam under a railroad bridge about half a mile from the Black River Falls Dam. On the opposite shoreline, men sit atop a fence....
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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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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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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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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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