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Logging Crew Posed in Camp

Date: 1886
Description: Logging crew posed in front of the buildings of D Sulivan's logging camp near Antigo, Wisconsin.
Photograph

Logging Crew

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

Logging Train

Date: 1890
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 ...
Photograph

Logging Near Rice Lake

Date: 1872
Description: A group of men use a team of four horses to transport logs across snow-covered ground on a sled. Trees are in the background. Caption reads: "A Logging Sce...
Photograph

Logging Crew and Railroad

Date: 1888
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 #...
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Oxen Pulling Logs

Date: 1890
Description: Men posed with a team of four oxen harnessed to pull a loaded logging sled.
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Wagon Load of Logs

Date: 1899
Description: Front view of a man holding the reins of two horses hitched to a sled loaded with logs on a snowy path in or near Vinette's logging camp.
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Logging Near Rice Lake

Date: 1872
Description: A group of loggers poses for a group portrait amongst cut logs in a snow-covered wooded area. The men in the middle have their axes in hand, while other me...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Future Rice Lake

Date: 1885-11-05
County: Barron
City: Rice Lake
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...
Photograph

Horses at a Logging Camp

Date: 1884
Description: The logging camp of Bruno Vinett. About a dozen horses, most in harness, and a similar number of men stand in front of a barn-like building and a small woo...
Photograph

Logging Camp Crew

Date: 1875
Description: Group portrait of a large logging crew posing outdoors in the snow at their camp in front of a log building. One of the men is playing a fiddle or a violin...
Photograph

Four Horses Pulling a Haul of Logs

Date: 1890
Description: Five men are posing on or near a sled piled high with logs, which is being hauled by a team of four horses.
Photograph

Hauling Logs With Oxen

Date: 1880
Description: Lumberjacks hauling logs with several teams of oxen.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Our great lumber interests

Date: 1872-12-??
County: Door
City: Sturgeon Bay
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Mabel Tainter memorial building

Date: 1890-06-29
County: Dunn
City: Menomonie
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Lumbering on the St. Croix

Date: 1899-01-14
County: St. Croix
City: 
Newspaper Article/Clipping

On Red Cedar river

Date: 1891-10-21
County: Dunn
City: Menomonie
Photograph

"Old Vanderbilt" Locomotive

Date: 1890
Description: Upham Lumber Company locomotive, "Old Vanderbilt," built by the Taunton Locomotive Works in 1847 from the New York providence and Boston Railroad where she...
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Lunch at the Lumber Camp

Date: 1890
Description: View up slope towards a group of men posing in the snow alongside a table with pots and dishes on it. An ox with a yoke and a pair of wooden staves is stan...

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