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Cutover Timberland

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Description: Cutover timberlands in Northern Wisconsin.
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Cutover Land

Date: 1939
Description: Cut-over land in northern Wisconsin.
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Farmhouse and Stump Land

Date: 06 17 1929
Description: Farm surrounded by cutover stump land.
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Carter's Siding

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Description: Carter's Siding, a small railroad depot in "cutover" country, showing strong evidence of why formerly forested regions of northern Wisconsin were so named.
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Pulling Stumps to Clear Land

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Description: Pulling tree stumps in northern Wisconsin. A group of curious onlookers watches as workers load large stumps. A sign in the background reads: "Conrath Home...
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Taking a Break

Date: 1937
Description: Men and one woman gathered around machinery in a cutover area of northern Wisconsin preparing to undertake an unknown task.
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Tree Stumps

Date: 1929
Description: Stumpland with a (farm?) in northern Wisconsin.
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A.G. Beebe Farm

Date: 09 26 1895
Description: View of the A.G. Beebe farm in Bruce, Wis. with stump land in the foreground. In the background is Mr. Beebe's barn and house.
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Men Clearing Stumps

Date: 09 03 1895
Description: Clearing stumps with a stump machine on the farm of Christopher Paustenbach, three miles east of Medford, Taylor County.
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Log Cabins at Boulder Lodge, Ghost Lake

Date: 1937
Description: Man smoking a cigar while standing in front of a log cabin situated in a clearing in northern Wisconsin. The man's necktie is blowing in the wind.
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Pine Forest Harvesting

Date: 09 06 1895
Description: View of a partially harvested pine forest nine miles southwest of Washburn. A pathway is being cut for a narrow gauge logging railroad.
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Farm of Gustave Voight

Date: 1895
Description: Partially cleared stump land on the farm of Gustave Voight, two miles south of Merrill, Lincoln county. Logs for burning are in the foreground. In the far ...
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Bushel of Potatoes

Date: 09 26 1895
Description: A pile of potatoes, weighing one hundred and seventy-four pounds, sits next to an overturned bushel basket on the potato field of Henry Kuepper. Stumps and...
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Dirt Road

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Description: View down dirt road through cut-over and burned-over terrain.
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Joseph Seipold Pea Field

Date: 07 30 1895
Description: Two men stand in the five-foot tall pea field of Joseph Seipold three miles northeast of Antigo. Another man stands atop a horse-drawn wagon loaded with ha...
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The First House in Kennedy

Date: 1908
Description: Group posed in front of the first house built in Kennedy.
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Boulder Lodge

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Description: A woman sitting on a horse near cabins at Boulder Lodge.
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Field of Stumps

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Description: A field of tree stumps beginning to be overgrown with vegetation.
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Cutover Stump Land

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Description: Cutover stump land showing a small wooden building on the lefthand side of the image.
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Logging Camp

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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. ...

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