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Yawkey-Bissell Lumber Co. Main Line

Date: 1911
Description: Yawkey-Bissell Lumber Co. main line logging railroad tracks “through virgin pine timber” south of Trout Lake.
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Crane Lifting Logs at Logging Camp

Date: 1904
Description: At Hein's logging camp, a crane mounted on a railroad train lifts logs onto a flatbed railway car. Other logs are stacked on the snowy ground. A number of ...
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Logs at Sawmill

Date: 1912
Description: Exterior view of an International Harvester sawmill, with logs stacked on railroad cars on a railroad track.
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Model G-61 Logging Truck

Date: 1919
Description: Two men hauling large logs with an International G-61 truck. Railroad flat cars loaded with logs are in the background.
Postcard

Norway Piling, Drummond, Wis.

Date: 1920
Description: View across railroad tracks towards train flatbeds stacked with large pine logs. There is a man standing further down the tracks looking towards the flatbe...
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Ore dock of Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad

Date: 1885
Description: View of the ore dock of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad. Large logs, buildings and a railroad bridge are in the foreground.
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Log Jam

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Description: Log jam floating by the first railroad bridge over the river.
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Logging Train

Date: 1890
Description: View across stacks of logs towards a group of men posing near or on a logging train. There are two teams of oxen near the stacked logs, and snow is on the ...
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Steam Skidder Train Engine

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Description: Several man posing by a steam skidder which is hauling logs.
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Shipping Logs by Railroad

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Description: Three men are standing on the last railroad car which is carrying logs down a railroad track. Another set of tracks are running parallel on the left, and b...
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"Old Vanderbilt" Locomotive

Date: 1890
Description: Upham Lumber Company locomotive, "Old Vanderbilt," built by the Taunton Locomotive Works in 1847 from the New York providence and Boston Railroad where she...
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Logs Along River

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Description: A possible stereovies of a river with logs along the shore. Possibly the Hatfield and Railroad bridges in the background.
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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 Crew and Railroad

Date: 1888
Description: A logging crew of the Upham Lumber Company, together with the company's locomotive, "Old Vanderbilt," formerly the Wisconsin Central Railroad's Engine No #...
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The Forest Interior and a Railroad Stockcar

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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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Transporting Logs from the Forest

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Description: A man in the background is standing on top of the logs that are being loaded onto a railcar. Four African American men at ground level are working to hoist...
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Outdoor Portrait of Two Loggers

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Description: Two men are standing in the snow at a logging camp. In the background are railroad tracks, and two pigs foraging around buildings.
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Logging with an International TD-18 Crawler Tractor

Date: 1940
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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Logging Scene at Park Falls

Date: 07 1936
Description: Stacks of logs cover a large flat area in the foreground, and in the distance is a complex of buildings at a sawmill. There are many large stacks of lumber...
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Railroad Bridge over Black River

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Description: Elevated view of the third railroad bridge over the Black River. Logs are lodged in the river.

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