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The Hodag

Date: 1967
Description: A family looking at a sculpture of a Hodag in a glass case at the Rhinelander Logging Museum.
Photograph

Rice Lake Lumber Company Base Camp — Long Lake Dam

Date: 
Description: View of a lumber camp, with several buildings in the background. A bridge spans a river near the dam site.
Photograph

Sluicing Logs Below Long Lake Dam

Date: 1905
Description: View of logs gathering in water just past a sluicing gate. Three people are standing on top of the dam.
Photograph

Lake Full of Logs

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Description: View of a lake with logs nearly covering the surface. A man is standing on a log near the shoreline.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

One-room shanty of old logging days passes with pioneer woodsman

Date: 1923-02-04
County: Chippewa
City: Eau Claire
Photograph

International TD-6 Crawler Tractor

Date: 1940
Description: Seldon Starcher, owner and operator of an International TD-6 Diesel TracTracTor (crawler tractor), uses his tractor both in logging and oil field work. Sta...
Photograph

Transporting Logs from the Forest

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Description: A man in the background is standing on top of the logs that are being loaded onto a railcar. Four African American men at ground level are working to hoist...
Property Record

W OFF SECTION LINE RD (33-34) JUST S OF COUNTY HIGHWAY F, CA 2 M E OF STATE HIGHWAY 32

Community: Lakewood
County: Oconto
Historic Name: HOLT AND BALCOM LOGGING CAMP #1
Reference Number: 23267
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...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Future Rice Lake

Date: 1885-11-05
County: Barron
City: Rice Lake
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Pioneers of Wausau

Date: 1930-07-02
County: Marathon
City: Wausau
Photograph

Biggest Logger

Date: 04 1966
Description: Driver Roman (Bud) J. Engels driving an International 8066 Heavy Equipment Transporter (HET) used for logging.
Postcard

Logging Scene

Date: 
Description: Two loggers and two draft horses standing near a tree stump. One man is on a sled with a log.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Voice of the people

Date: 1929-03-14
County: Dunn
City: Menomonie
Photograph

Logging with a TD-18 Crawler Tractor

Date: 1940
Description: A man pulling logs with an International TD-18 Diesel TracTracTor (crawler tractor). The tractor was owned by the Pacific National Lumber Company and was e...
Photograph

Men Posed Holding Logging Tools

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Description: Four men posed standing and holding logging tools next to a team of two oxen in the woods. Photographer's wagon in the background of C.R. Monroe, Traveling...
Photograph

Men Logging

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Description: Group of men posed standing and holding logging tools, including a long saw blade, next to and atop bobsleds pulled by a team of two oxen and a team of two...
Photograph

Men Logging

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Description: Group of men posed standing and holding logging tools in the woods during winter next to two teams of two horses and a team of two oxen.
Photograph

Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posed standing in a snow-covered logging camp. In the background a man stands with an ox, and another man displays a team of two horses.
Photograph

Logging Camp

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Description: Group portrait of men posed standing, sitting and holding tools in a snow-covered logging camp in front of several teams of oxen and horses. One man holds ...

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