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Newspaper Article/Clipping

Pioneers of Wausau

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

Logging Camp or Mining Camp

Date: 
Description: Exterior stereograph view across snow-covered field towards buildings and trees. Identified possibly as the York Iron Mine. *It looks like a logging camp.
Photograph

Loggers at a Logging Camp

Date: 
Description: View across snow towards a group of loggers, including two women, one holding a child in her arms, at a logging camp in winter.
Photograph

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

Date: 
Description: View of a lake with logs nearly covering the surface. A man is standing on a log near the shoreline.
Photograph

Logging Camp

Date: 
Description: Men posed sitting and standing in a logging camp in front of a steam locomotive. A man in the middle foreground is posed sitting and playing a concertina. ...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Voice of the people

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

Biggest Logger

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

Was founded 20 years ago

Date: 1922-03-04
County: Vilas
City: 
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Want brooks mill removed

Date: 1905-10-04
County: Rock
City: Beloit
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Historic saw mill is closed

Date: 1930-11-12
County: Bayfield
City: Drummond
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

Timber product Wisconsin Valley

Date: 1905-07-24
County: Marathon
City: Wausau
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Economy their need

Date: 1904-12-27
County: Fond Du Lac
City: Fond du Lac
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Old landmark of city razed on wednesday

Date: 1927-07-01
County: Outagamie
City: Kaukauna

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