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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View across stacks of logs towards a group of men posing near or on a logging train. There are two teams of oxen near the stacked logs, and snow is on the ... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a bridge and logging debris around residential homes. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| 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 #... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Men posed with a team of four oxen harnessed to pull a loaded logging sled. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Lumberjacks hauling logs with several teams of oxen. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline over river towards the town. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Sigvart Solbrg, (left) and Anton Follstad, (right) sawing a tree down during winter. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Crew of river drivers moving logs off of rocks below a dam probably on the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Log jam on the St. Croix River at the Head of the Dalles. The jam was about five miles long, and 50,000,000 board feet of white pine was piled up. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | The Fairchild and Northwestern locomotive the "Gracie May," named for Gracie May Foster. Several people pose near the locomotive, including Robert Holmes a... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | A view at the mouth of the Menominee River showing Ludington Wells and Van Schaick's mills. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Two lumbermen posing with a two-man crosscut saw they are using on a fallen tree trunk, cutting the pine into manageable sizes for hauling. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a log jam near the Dalles on the St. Croix River. Caption at bottom reads: "St. Croix Riv. and Bridge, St. Croix Falls." |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Log driving crew maneuvering logs through rapids below a dam, probably on the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A view of Rudolph Herrling's sawmill and log yard in front of the Herling farm. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of lumber raft and workers on the Chippewa River. In the background on the right are dwellings. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from steep shoreline of a log jam of about 150 million feet of logs, stopped at the piers of Pound, Halbert, and Co., which stood in about 40... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across railroad tracks of the Wisconsin Central Railroad depot. Virtually the entire population of Sherry is thought to be standing on the pl... |
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