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Winter Logging on Rice Lake

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Description: View across water towards logs floating along the lake. Several buildings, including a water tower and a silo, are on the opposite shoreline.
Photograph

Lake Full of Logs

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Description: View of a lake with logs nearly covering the surface. A man is standing on a log near the shoreline.
Map or Atlas

Vilas County’s First Settlements, Resorts, Camps, Trading Posts, and Historic Roads

Date: 1853
Description: This map shows camps, forts, logging camps, lakes, roads, railroads, the Wisconsin River, and Lac Du Flambeau Indian Reservation. Some points of interest a...
Map or Atlas

Map of Ghost Towns, Old Mining and Logging Towns of Northern Wisconsin and Northern Michigan

Date: 1969
Description: This map shows ghost towns, Indian reservations, lakes, railroads, and rivers. Ghost towns are numbered and listed in a corresponding index.
Map or Atlas

Map Showing Territory 4 Miles North, 8 miles East, 7 Miles South, and 6 Miles West of Harshaw, Wisconsin

Date: 1900
Description: This map shows logging roads, railroads with spur lines, trails, rapids, lumber camps, Indian villages, summer resort, lakes, rivers, and ponds.
Postcard

View from the Site of Norway Spring

Date: 1912
Description: This view is looking northeast from the site of Norway Springs at the north end of Trout Lake in the spring. In the foreground are tree stumps; in the back...
Photograph

Cove Logging Camp on Lake Namakagon

Date: 1900
Description: Cove Logging camp at future site of Forest Lodge property. The log building on the hill became the main house at Forest Lodge in 1902 when Crawford Livings...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Eau Claire

Date: 1880
Description: Bird's-eye view of Eau Claire.
Photograph

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 ...
Photograph

Rice Lake Plant

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of a lumber plant, with large stacks of lumber stacked around it. A lake is behind the plant.
Photograph

Tow Boat on Long Lake

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Description: View across water towards a tow boat on the lake. Two men are standing on the top of the boat near a chimney spewing smoke.
Photograph

A "Landing" — Lake Ice 2 or 3 Feet Thick

Date: 1890
Description: View of a man standing on a log among a large pile of logs spread out on the snow-covered ice of a lake. He is leaning on the handle of what may be a cant ...
Postcard

Half Moon Lake and Island

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Description: Black and white illustration of Half Moon Lake with log jams and an island. Caption reads: "Half Moon Lake and Island, Eau Claire, Wis."
Map or Atlas

Map of the Southern Part of Bayfield County, Wisconsin

Date: 1920
Description: This manuscript map of southern Bayfield County, Wisconsin, covers the towns of Cable and Drummond and portions of Grandview and Namekagon. Shown are the t...
Postcard

Half Moon Lake and Island

Date: 1900
Description: Black and white elevated view of Half Moon Lake and Island. Logs are in a boom in the lake. Caption reads: "Half Moon Lake and Island," and "Eau Claire, Wi...
Photograph

Logs in Ashland Harbor

Date: 1936
Description: Elevated view of logs tugged across Lake Superior to the harbor at Ashland.
Map or Atlas

Map of Wisconsin Land Grant Limits

Date: 1881
Description: A brochure with a map of Wisconsin that also includes information (in English, German, Norwegian, and Swedish) pertaining to the state, such as its timber ...
Photograph

Sawmill near Lake Winnebago

Date: 1871
Description: Stereograph of a sawmill area and Lake Winnebago in the foreground. The square building with the "cupola" was the Revere House. A manuscript notation, very...

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