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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

Pacific Logging Congress Display Tent

Date: 11 1947
Description: Four International trucks on display in a large tent at the Pacific Logging Congress in Seattle, Washington. The event was held from November 17-19, 1947.
Photograph

Men in front of Peter's Shoe Store

Date: 1912
Description: Men line up on the porch of "Peter's" shoe store. The store was likely at or near an International Harvester logging camp or sawmill.
Print

Monarch Tractors

Date: 1920
Description: Advertisement for Monarch tractors featuring a photograph of a Monarch 30-18 hauling a 41-ton load over snow and icy roads. The text at top reads: "Monarch...
Photograph

Wood Carving at the Logging Congress

Date: 09 1976
Description: A man is carving a face onto a log using a chainsaw. Other men are looking at chainsaws displayed on a pile of birch tree logs. A sign on a trailer behind ...
Photograph

General Store and Post Office

Date: 1895
Description: General store and post office. Hans Johsnon, Newport's founder, is shown on the porch. Logs are stacked in the foreground. The post office was established ...
Postcard

Dog Pulling Sled

Date: 1910
Description: Colorized postcard of T.J. Thompson seated on a sled pulled by his dog. He traveled among the lumber camps between Winter and Raddison, selling watches and...
Print

Trackpull Crawler Equipment

Date: 05 1926
Description: Front cover of an advertising booklet for Trackpull crawler equipment for the Fordson tractor. The cover features a man using the Fordson tractor to pull a...
Photograph

"The Dancing Annie" Wanigan

Date: 1900
Description: Group of people on a wanigan, the "Dancing Annie," used by Chippewa Lumber and Supply Company near Eagle Rapids. A wanigan is a floating office and supply ...
Print

How Lumbermen Use the Cletrac

Date: 1921
Description: Pamphlet advertising the Cletrac tank-type tractor. It features a photograph of a man using a crawler tractor to pull a wagon loaded with felled trees; a m...
Photograph

View of Wausau, Wisconsin

Date: 1866
Description: Elevated view taken from the extreme end of Clark's Saw and Planing Mill. An old flour mill can be seen behind the bridge, and to the extreme right are thr...
Print

Horn & Joseph Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of the Horn's Pier (Door County) office of Horn & Joseph, dealers in general merchandise, including "Wood, Bark, Ties, Telegraph Poles, Posts, &...
Book or Pamphlet

Monarch Tractors in the Lumber Field

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a brochure produced by General Tractors Incorporated to advertise Monarch Neverslip tractors. The photograph on the cover depicts two men us...
Photograph

International Trucks & Tractors Storefront

Date: 1944
Description: View from road of the storefront of Truck & Tractor, Inc., an International Harvester dealership. An Olympic Transportation Co. truck is parked near the en...
Painting

Menasha Painting

Date: 1856
Description: ". . . The upper Grand Chute was the last of the 'improvements' paintings signed by Brookes and Stevenson. Yet there were two more vital links in the Fox R...

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