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| Date: | 1890 |
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| 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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| 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... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across railroad tracks of the Wisconsin Central Railroad depot. Virtually the entire population of Sherry is thought to be standing on the pl... |
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| Description: | An enormous log is secured on a flat rail car parked in a rail yard. Three men are making sure it is fastened properly. More logs are visible on rail cars ... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | A work crew of the Upham Lumber and Manufacturing Company near Athens, Wisconsin. The men are riding on a flatbed car of the Abbottsford and Northeastern R... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Housing for employees of logging and lumber operations associated with International Harvester. The housing consists of small one-room shacks in a wooded a... |
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| Description: | Train-load of logs with wood-burning Heisher geared locomotive and train crew. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of logs floating in river, looking east between falls and railroad bridge. In the upper right corner is a large number of logging pylons... |
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| Description: | William Rogalsky's railroad tie mill, showing workers and logs ready to be milled. Photographer Charles J. Ruppenthal was known to have been active in Tige... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | View of Cathedral Woods and the fallen trees that were cut down to make way for the Holt Lumber Company railroad spur. Caption reads: "Cutting the R.R. rig... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A group of women and children and one man pose standing on the railroad tracks behind a saddle back train. On the low hill behind them is a log building, a... |
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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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| Description: | Two men are standing in the snow at a logging camp. In the background are railroad tracks, and two pigs foraging around buildings. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 09 06 1895 |
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| Description: | View of a partially harvested pine forest nine miles southwest of Washburn. A pathway is being cut for a narrow gauge logging railroad. |
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