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Gordon Dam

Date: 1940
Description: Aerial view, looking upstream, of water flowing through a dam. On the reverse of the print is written: "Dam built by WPA on site of old logging dam on the ...
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After the Fire

Date: 1935
Description: Two logging roads diverge in a stand of burned jack pine trees, dividing the scene into three parts. In the background, near the left branch of the road, t...
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Dirt Road

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Description: View down dirt road through cut-over and burned-over terrain.
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Sawmills

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "UD-24 - Sawmills." Where Taken: "SW." Information with photograph reads: "UD-24 power unit in sawmill."
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Transporting Logs

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Description: Lumberjacks pose on top of loads of logs pulled by teams of four horses.
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Log Jam

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Description: A possible stereograph of a man standing on a log jam at a sorting pier in a river.
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Men Working at Mining Camp

Date: 09 1910
Description: Workers at the Leighton-Wyoming mining camp. Piles of logs and boards are in the foreground.
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Log Jam on the River

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Description: View of a log jam on the river, with a forest in the background. Caption reads: "Log Jam."
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Emerson Bros. Sawmill

Date: 1908
Description: Emerson Brothers Sawmill with large piles of cut trees in the foreground.
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The Hotz Sawmill

Date: 01 1928
Description: The sawmill at Newport in winter, with logs and lumber stacked nearby.
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Three Loggers with Team of Horses

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Description: Gust Larson, Morris Anderson and another man stand outdoors behind a team of two horses, snaking logs.
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Felling the White Pine

Date: 07 1936
Description: Two men are working together to cut down a large white pine tree on a Menominee Indian reservation.
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Logging Operation at Sawmill

Date: 09 30 1927
Description: Man using a McCormick-Deering tractor among trees at the C.W. O'Halloran Co.
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Sorting Logs in Northern Wisconsin

Date: 1900
Description: Log sorting operation on a river in Northern Wisconsin. Men stand on floating logs and maneuver them using cant hooks.
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Steam Crane Loading Lumber onto Railroad Car

Date: 1916
Description: Steam crane loading lumber onto a railroad car for use at an International Harvester sawmill.
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Cutting Firewood with Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1950
Description: Two farmers cutting firewood with a belt-driven circular saw powered by a McCormick Farmall H tractor.
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Logging Camp

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Description: Men posed in a snow-covered loggers camp displaying three teams of two oxen and six teams of two horses.
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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.
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Train Pulling Large Logs

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Description: A train pulls a load of very large tree trunks. Several men stand between the large logs.
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Beef Slough Near Alma

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Description: Lumber raft in the water near the shoreline with two paddle wheel steamboats and a bluff in the distance.

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