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Drawing

Wisconsin Centennial Stamp Design in Black

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Description: Black and white design for the 3 cent Centennial stamp with a logging theme.
Drawing

Wisconsin Centennial Stamp Design with Lumberjack

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Description: Design for the Wisconsin Centennial 3 cent stamp featuring a logging and industry theme. There is a large lumberjack (Paul Bunyon?) with an axe coming over...
Photograph

Logging Camp

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Description: Men posed sitting and standing in a logging camp in front of a steam locomotive. A man in the middle foreground is posed sitting and playing a concertina. ...
Photograph

The Hodag

Date: 1967
Description: A family looking at a sculpture of a Hodag in a glass case at the Rhinelander Logging Museum.
Photograph

Logging Camp

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Description: Group portrait of men posed standing, sitting and holding tools in a snow-covered logging camp in front of several teams of oxen and horses. One man holds ...
Photograph

Emery DeNoyer

Date: 07 26 1941
Description: Emery DeNoyer (b.1887), singer of lumberjack songs. "He earned his keep in the Wisconsin lumber camps not by logging (for he only had only one eye and one ...
Print

Historyland's Logging Camp Cook Shanty Menu

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Description: Menu of daily meat specials under the heading "Come And Get It!" from the Logging Camp Cook Shanty restaurant at Historyland. On the left is a black and wh...
Photograph

Wood Carving at the Logging Congress

Date: 09 1976
Description: A man is carving a face onto a log using a chainsaw. Other men are looking at chainsaws displayed on a pile of birch tree logs. A sign on a trailer behind ...
Photograph

Tall-tale Postcard: Cutting Corn

Date: 1913
Description: Photomontage of two men with a logging crosscut saw cutting a giant ear of corn. A mound of giant corn stands beside them. There is a barn in the backgroun...
Photograph

Logging Camp

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Description: Group portrait of men posed standing on the snow-covered ground in front of a log building. Three men stand with teams of two horses.
Photograph

Workers in Front of Lumber Camp

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Description: Group portrait of men posing in front of a long building. Many of the men have pipe's in their mouths. A group of men on the left are sitting on logs and p...
Print

Cant Hook Man

Date: 04 1937
Description: Linoleum cut print of a man using a cant hook to move logs. Other lumberjacks work in the background.
Photograph

Wallace Reid, an unidentifed actress, and Kathlyn Williams, scene still

Date: 1917
Description: Lumberman Jack Fyfe (played by Wallace Reid) is caught embracing Neemis, the Indian kitchen maid, by his wife Stella Barton (Kathlyn Williams) in the cookh...
Print

Mess Hall at Paul Bunyan's Logging Camp

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Description: Mess hall at Paul Bunyan's lumber camp. Men are seated at long tables as trains dispense soup, coffee, and tea, while salt is hauled in a wagon pulled by e...
Photograph

Men Posing at Lumber Yard

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Description: View across field of scrub grass towards a group of men, some in work clothes and other men wearing suits, standing in a lumberyard at a logging camp. Ther...
Photograph

Group with Horse-Drawn Sled in the Timber Lands

Date: 1906
Description: Horse-drawn load of 6000 ft. of pine logs, accompanied by a cornet player and two women, at the Weinkauf & Co. timber lands.
Photograph

Wallace Reid and Kathlyn Williams on a big tree, scene still

Date: 1917
Description: In the depths of the forest, the lumberman Jack Fyfe (played by Wallace Reid) and his wife Stella Barton (Kathlyn Williams) stand on a huge tree stump in a...
Photograph

"A Daughter of the Wolf" Scene Still

Date: 1919
Description: Snowy outdoor location scene still from the 1919 Famous Players silent film "A Daughter of the Wolf," featuring Lila Lee (playing Annette Ainsworth) and Cl...
Postcard

The First Northern Loggers

Date: 1980
Description: Color reproduction of a metal sculpture of two loggers driving their horse. The sculpture is in front of a building. Text on reverse reads: "The First ...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 216-225

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Description: Our side of the fence is all dovetail — where they
winked and upset the story-book, that's
over on your side

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