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Logging Scene

Date: 
Description: A view of a logging scene. White and African American workers are posing for a group portrait. Oxen are pulling logs, and other large logs are piled on bot...
Photograph

Locomotive on Logging Railroad Tracks

Date: 09 1919
Description: View of a locomotive on the logging railroad spur, with the engineer. Three men are standing on the tracks. An automobile is parked below on the left in fr...
Photograph

Log Booms on Chequamegon Bay

Date: 1945
Description: Elevated view of logs stored in a logging boom on Chequamegon Bay.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Cruising, surveying, logging and log driving and dam building in pioneer days of north Wis.

Date: 1916-03-09
County: Eau Claire
City: Eau Claire
Photograph

Logging Camp

Date: 
Description: Group portrait of men, women. children and dogs posed standing, sitting and holding logging tools in a snow-covered logging camp in front of log buildings.
Property Record

MOUTH OF SOUTH FORK OF THE FLAMBEAU RIVER

Community: Fifield
County: Price
Historic Name: Round Lake Logging Dam
Reference Number: 19095
Property Record

STATE HIGHWAY 40

Community: Big Bend
County: Rusk
Historic Name: ELIJAH SWIFT'S LOGGING HEADQUARTERS
Reference Number: 19299
Photograph

Logging Crew with Loaded Sleds

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Description: Logging crew with two large loads of logs on horse-drawn sleds ready for the mill. Foreman, Mike Baltus, stands in the foreground. Also pictured are A. Cli...
Photograph

Logging Sled at the Landing

Date: 1904
Description: Five men stand on or nearby a sled loaded with logs and pulled by two horses at the landing at Hein's logging camp. There is snow on the ground.
Photograph

Logging Camp

Date: 
Description: A group of people, presumably loggers and camp employees, pose with horses at a logging camp. A muddy puddle is in the foreground, and behind the group are...
Photograph

Logging Camp Housing

Date: 1912
Description: A woman stands in the doorway of the first in a line of houses at an International Harvester logging camp or sawmill.
Photograph

Bridge in Wrightstown

Date: 1865
Description: Elevated view of a bridge and logging debris around residential homes.
Photograph

Winter Logging on Rice Lake

Date: 
Description: View across water towards logs floating along the lake. Several buildings, including a water tower and a silo, are on the opposite shoreline.
Photograph

Logging Train

Date: 1910
Description: Roddis Lumber and Veneer Company locomotive Number 1, loaded with logs and flanked by large piles of logs.
Historical Essay

Logging in Wisconsin

Brief history of logging in Wisconsin.
Photograph

Logging Camp

Date: 
Description: Group of men posed holding logging tools while sitting and standing in a logging camp. Two men stand displaying two teams of two horses, and one man is dis...
Drawing

Wisconsin Centennial Stamp Design with Lumberjack

Date: 
Description: Design for the Wisconsin Centennial 3 cent stamp featuring a logging and industry theme. There is a large lumberjack (Paul Bunyon?) with an axe coming over...
Photograph

Horses with a Go-Devil

Date: 1910
Description: Two logging workers pose with their team of horses who are hitched to a go-devil, used for skidding logs to a road or landing.
Photograph

Log Driving Crew

Date: 1910
Description: Logging crew standing on planks and logs possibly in a sorting works on the Yellow River. One man holds a ledger and the others hold long cant hooks.
Map or Atlas

Logging Dams Upon Little Wolf River : 1855?-1900, Waupaca County

Date: 1971
Description: This map shows major tributaries, and also covers parts of Marathon and Portage Counties.

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