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Logging Train

Date: 1910
Description: Roddis Lumber and Veneer Company locomotive Number 1, loaded with logs and flanked by large piles of logs.
Map or Atlas

Logging Dams Upon Little Wolf River : 1855?-1900, Waupaca County

Date: 1971
Description: This map shows major tributaries, and also covers parts of Marathon and Portage Counties.
Photograph

Logging Camp

Date: 
Description: Group of men posed holding logging tools while sitting and standing in a logging camp. Two men stand displaying two teams of two horses, and one man is dis...
Drawing

Wisconsin Centennial Stamp Design with Lumberjack

Date: 
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

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.
Photograph

Log Driving Crew

Date: 1910
Description: Logging crew standing on planks and logs possibly in a sorting works on the Yellow River. One man holds a ledger and the others hold long cant hooks.
Photograph

Eatonville Transfer Company Logging Truck

Date: 02 17 1938
Description: A man is sitting behind the wheel of an International D-246-F logging truck owned by the Eatonville Transfer Company. Several logs are secured onto the tru...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Logging in the Blue Snow

Date: 
Description: Winter view with men logging on the Little Wolf River during the winter of the "blue snow". Logs are being decked on the ice and along the shore. Horse te...
Photograph

Pacific Logging Congress Grounds

Date: 11 1947
Description: International Harvester equipment, including a TD-18 TracTracTor (crawler tractor), on display at the Pacific Logging Congress. Also on display are two lar...
Photograph

Hein's Logging Camp

Date: 1904
Description: A man stands atop a sled load of logs drawn by two horses at Hein's Logging Camp. Several other men stand atop large pile of logs behind him. Snow lies on ...
Photograph

Soft Maple Creek Dam

Date: 04 1959
Description: The Mississippi River Logging Company's dam built in Soft Maple Creek in 1877.
Photograph

Steam Skidder Train Engine

Date: 
Description: Several man posing by a steam skidder which is hauling logs.
Photograph

Two Buildings at Logging Camp

Date: 1912
Description: Two buildings, including the office of Dr. A.B. Allston (left), at an International Harvester logging camp or sawmill. People can be seen standing on the p...
Photograph

Mill Crane Lowering Logging Trailer

Date: 04 1966
Description: Roman (Bud) J. Engels jumping from cab of International 8066 Heavy Equipment Transporter (HET) as mill crane lowers logging trailer onto the truck for anot...
Book or Pamphlet

Best Tractors at Work

Date: 1925
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising Best tractors, featuring three photographs of the tractors used for road building and logging in Arkansas, North Carol...
Photograph

Dam on Soft Maple Creek

Date: 04 1959
Description: The Mississippi River Logging Company's dam built in Soft Maple Creek in 1877.
Photograph

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 #...
Photograph

Stack of lumber

Date: 
Description: Neat stack of lumber next to forest.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Old settler remembers

Date: 1906-07-21
County: Vilas
City: Eagle River

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