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Logging with International Truck

Date: 1947
Description: Three-quarter side view of a man driving an International KB-5 Pulpwood Special heavily loaded with logs through a wooded area. The truck was owned by John...
Photograph

Logging Crew with Cut Wood

Date: 
Description: Group of men posed with 13,260 feet of cut lumber on a horse-drawn sled in winter. Some of the men hold cant hooks.
Photograph

Logging Crew Breaking to Eat

Date: 
Description: A few dozen men stand on and around a sandy path surrounded by low shrubbery. They are wearing work clothes, and some of them are carrying bowls filled wit...
Photograph

Logging Truck Scene

Date: 1932
Description: Two men stand next to a truck with a trailer full of snowy lumber, and more lumber in the background.
Photograph

Log Transport

Date: 1940
Description: Two men are loading logs onto the bed of an International D-Line truck. A forest and mountain are in the background.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Rock County's first mill should have a marker

Date: 1927-05-23
County: Rock
City: Janesville
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Pioneer lumberman recalls indian scare back in '64.

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

Writer recalls six busy sawmills here sixty years ago

Date: 1931-10-22
County: Oconto
City: Oconto
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

Downhill Haul of Logs

Date: 
Description: View down snow-covered hill towards five men posing on or next to a haul of logs on a sled, which are being pulled by a team of four horses through trees.
Photograph

M. R. L. Company Log Marks

Date: 09 02 1908
Description: A list of log marks (symbols) dated "9/2/08".
Newspaper Article/Clipping

R. L. banquets O. H. Ingram

Date: 1909-12-24
County: Barron
City: Rice Lake
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Passing of an old relic

Date: 1917-10-11
County: Marathon
City: 
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Timber industry gave city start

Date: 1932-04-12
County: Clark
City: Neillsville
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Pioneer of pinery days on Wisconsin River succumbs

Date: 1931-01-30
County: Wood
City: Wisconsin Rapids
Newspaper Article/Clipping

A reminder of the early days--the good old days

Date: 1924-07-26
County: 
City: 
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Cluster of old log shacks relic of Barron lumbering era

Date: 1935-01-30
County: Barron
City: Barron
Newspaper Article/Clipping

The lumber camps of long ago

Date: 1915-01-14
County: Chippewa
City: 
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Lumber Camp in Greenfield

Date: 1920-01-10
County: Sauk
City: Greenfield
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Mabel Tainter memorial building

Date: 1890-06-29
County: Dunn
City: Menomonie

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