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Postcard

Logging

Date: 1908
Description: Colorized postcard of loggers posing with logs piled on horse-drawn sleds. Caption reads: "Logging, Athens, Wis."
Photograph

Saw Filer and Logging Crew

Date: 
Description: Logging crew and horses posed in snow.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Stark recalls early logging days on river

Date: 1932-03-04
County: Marathon
City: Knowlton
Photograph

W.L.L. & T. Logging Operations

Date: 02 1914
Description: Two men dressed in business attire stand in the snow in front of logs cut as part of W.L.L. & T. logging operations.
Photograph

Horses with a Go-Devil

Date: 1910
Description: Two logging workers pose with their team of horses who are hitched to a go-devil, used for skidding logs to a road or landing.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Pioneers of Wausau

Date: 1930-07-02
County: Marathon
City: Wausau
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Timber product Wisconsin Valley

Date: 1905-07-24
County: Marathon
City: Wausau
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Pioneer lumberman recalls indian scare back in '64.

Date: 1929-10-13
County: Marathon
City: Wausau
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Passing of an old relic

Date: 1917-10-11
County: Marathon
City: 
Photograph

Businessmen Visiting Logging Crew

Date: 1912
Description: View from shoreline over tree branches of three businessmen visiting a logging crew on the Wisconsin River. One businessman sits on a boat while two others...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Birnamwood, hamlet in 1880; pioneers recall early days

Date: 1935-08-16
County: Marathon
City: Birnamwood
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Captain C. H. Henry tells of pioneer days on Wisconsin

Date: 1932-07-28
County: Marathon
City: Wausau
Photograph

Steamhauler

Date: 02 1914
Description: A steamhauler pulling logs on skids to the mill during a snowstorm.
Photograph

Log Drive on Wisconsin River

Date: 1913
Description: Eight men are in a boat driving logs down the Wisconsin River.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Matt Stapleton tells of old times on the Wisconsin

Date: 1932-12-22
County: Marathon
City: Wausau
Photograph

Loading Logs from Skids

Date: 02 1914
Description: Loggers moving logs onto a horse-drawn wagon in the snow.
Photograph

Log Jam on Wisconsin River

Date: 1900
Description: Two women and one man in street clothes and wearing hats posing among the logs of a large log jam on the Wisconsin River.
Photograph

Loggers Next to a Log Cabin

Date: 02 1914
Description: Several loggers are standing next to a log cabin, while a few men are sitting on the roof of the cabin during a snowstorm.
Print

John J. Sherman Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of John J. Sherman, a real estate broker and tax, title, collection, and passenger agent in Wausau, Wisconsin, with images of men felling trees ...
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.

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