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Logging

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

Logging

Date: 07 24 1929
Description: View down dirt road towards a man driving up the road in a truck hauling logs. There is no cab on the truck, and painted on the right side of the engine co...
Photograph

Logging

Date: 07 24 1929
Description: View towards front of International truck. A man is sitting in the driver's seat, and logs are in the truck bed behind him. The truck does not have a cab. ...
Photograph

Logging

Date: 1900
Description: A copy of an older photograph of a logging scene. In the foreground a man is holding the reins of a pair of horses, another man is standing beside him; beh...
Photograph

Logging Camp

Date: 
Description: A logging camp at the Phoenix Manufacturing Company.
Photograph

Rhinelander Logging Museum

Date: 1930
Description: Logging Museum in Rhinelander.
Photograph

Selective Logging Practices

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Description: Man measuring a tree for selective logging.
Photograph

Rhinelander Logging Museum

Date: 1930
Description: Logging Museum in Rhinelander. A long building has a sign on the roof that reads: "Logging Museum".
Photograph

Rhinelander Logging Museum

Date: 1948
Description: Logging Museum in Rhinelander.
Photograph

Logging Crew

Date: 1895
Description: A Knapp, Stout & Company crew with J. Bracklin (in fur coat), logging superintendent.
Postcard

Typical Logging Scene Near Colby

Date: 1905
Description: Black and white postcard of a typical logging scene, showing a wagon, logs on the ground and two buildings. Caption reads: "Typical Logging Scene Near Colb...
Photograph

Loading Pine Logs

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Description: Workers loading pine logs in northern Wisconsin when there was still virgin timber for logging.
Photograph

Logging Operation

Date: 1912
Description: Men using a large crane at an International Harvester logging operation.
Photograph

Log Cabins of the Lumber Camp

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Description: A view of the log cabin housing at a logging camp. Caption reads: "Logging Camp, Cloquet, Minn."
Photograph

Saw Filer and Logging Crew

Date: 
Description: Logging crew and horses posed in snow.
Photograph

IH Logging Operation

Date: 1912
Description: Two men are standing on a log suspended from a steam powered crane at an International Harvester logging operation. Large logs are in the foreground.
Photograph

Paul Bunyan Logging Camp Museum

Date: 1946
Description: Paul Bunyan Logging Camp Museum.
Photograph

Yawkey-Bissell Lumber Co. Main Line

Date: 1911
Description: Yawkey-Bissell Lumber Co. main line logging railroad tracks “through virgin pine timber” south of Trout Lake.
Photograph

Big Falls Logging Crew

Date: 1900
Description: Four men from a logging crew posing standing in the snow with teams of horses and oxen.
Photograph

Selective Logging

Date: 03 1938
Description: A large white pine being felled on the Menominee Indian Reservation. This photograph was taken to illustrate the tribe's selective logging practices.

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