Series: Lumbering

Subseries: Camps
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D. Sulivan’s logging shanty, 1886 February
Note: Photographer: Morgan Brothers, Antigo, Wisconsin.

Dining room, probably at D. Sulivan’s lumber camp, 1885-1890

Possibly D. Sulivan’s lumber camp

Wisconsin Meyers and Barth logging camp, circa 1890

Ashland (vicinity), Wisconsin

Logging crew, circa 1885

Birchwood, Washburn County, Wisconsin

Dining room at the Arpin Company logging camp, 1911

Black River Falls (vicinity), Clark County, Wisconsin

Spaulding logging camp, 1880-1889
Note: Photographer: Morgan Danks, Colby.

Logging camp, 1880-1889

Brill (vicinity), Barron County, Wisconsin

Dining room at August Mason’s lumber camp, 1902

Bruce (vicinity), Wisconsin

“Crew of 45 men, Bruce,” 1884

Cable (vicinity), Bayfield County, Wisconsin

Ole Emerson’s lumber camp, 1906

Ole Emerson’s farm camp, 1905

Ole Emerson’s lumber camp, 1904-1908

Ole Emerson’s lumber camp, 1902-1908

Chippewa Falls (vicinity), Wisconsin

Dining room of the Vinette lumber camp, circa 1899-1903

Bruno Vinette’s lumber camp, 1899

Clear Lake (vicinity), Vilas County, Wisconsin

Dining room of Langley and Anderson lumber camp on the Little Papoose River

Couderay, Sawyer County, Wisconsin

McCann’s lumber camp landing, 1914
Note: Photographer: Reed.

Crandon, Wisconsin

McInnis lumber camp, 1919

McInnis lumber camp, 1918-1919
Note

[2 photographs]

Photographer: Parfitt.

Wisconsin McInnis lumber camp logging for Keith and Miles Co., Crandon (vicinity), circa 1900
Note: Photographer: Parfitt.

Keith and Hiles Lumber Company camp, 1910-1915

Dining quarters at the Cass Lumber Company, Crandon (vicinity), circa 1910 1920

Dining quarters at Demaiff’s lumber camp, circa 1910-1920

Lumbering crew at George Bailey’s camp, circa 1918-1919
Note: Photographer: Parfitt.

Bob Hewitt’s lumber camp, 1919
Note: Photographer: Parfitt.

Crandon or Rhinelander (vicinity), Wisconsin

Rodgers logging camp, 1904

Crandon(?), Wisconsin

Lumber crew at lunch, circa 1910-1920
Note: Photographer: Anderson.

Blacksmith shop at a lumber camp, circa 1910-1915

Lumber camp, circa 1910-1915
Note: Photographer: Anderson.

Lumber camp, circa 1910-1920

Lumber camp crew, circa 1910-1920

Lumber camp, circa 1910-1920
Note: Photographer: Anderson.

Donald (vicinity), Taylor County, Wisconsin

Fountain Campbell logging camp crew at lunch, 1906

Draper (vicinity), Sawyer County, Wisconsin

Victor Michard’s logging camp, 1912

Logging camp office with foreman, clerk, two visitors and five lumberjacks

Jack Ryan’s logging camp, 1908

Dunbar (vicinity), Wisconsin

Abandoned logging camp in cut-over land used as a hunting camp, circa 1920-1930

Exeland (vicinity), Sawyer County, Wisconsin

Dining room of the Arpin Co. logging camp, 1911

Greenwood(?), Wisconsin

Greenwood Camp dining room, circa 1900

Hannibal (vicinity), Taylor County, Wisconsin

Possibly the C.A. Stone logging camp, 1906

Hay Creek, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin

Crew of the John S. Owen(?) lumber camp at dinner, 1904

Hiles (vicinity), Wisconsin

Whitman Lumber Company’s camp, 1907 August

Holcombe (vicinity), Wisconsin

Group of lumberjacks, circa 1900

Humbird (vicinity), Clark County, Wisconsin

Visitors at a logging camp, circa 1900-1910

Logging camp crew, circa 1900-1910

Jim Falls, Chippewa County, Wisconsin

LeTurneau Brothers farm and logging camp, 1888

Kennedy (vicinity), Price County, Wisconsin

Railroad camp, 1908

Decks of logs at New Dells camp no. 4, 1914

New Dells logging camp no. 8, 1914

Lost Lake (vicinity), Sawyer County, Wisconsin

Lumber camp, circa 1895

Decks of logs, circa 1895

Log landing, circa 1895

Moses and Gaynor’s old logging camp, 1900

Ole Emerson’s logging camp, 1905

Nashville, Wisconsin

W.H. Rogers Lumber Company camp and lumber yard on the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, circa 1900

Prentice (vicinity), Wisconsin

Lumber camp in the woods of J.L. Leeper, circa 1880

Rice Lake, Barron County, Wisconsin

Filling the road tank, Rice Lake Lumber Company, camp number 4, 1913 December 30

Men doing their Sunday washing, Rice Lake Lumber Company camp, 1913 December 28

Rhinelander, Wisconsin

Russell Corning logging property, circa 1905
Note: Photographer: Kloss, Crandon, Wisconsin

Rhinelander (?), Wisconsin

Wright’s Lumber Camp, circa 1890-1900

Thornapple (vicinity), Rusk County, Wisconsin

Smith and Hanson lumber camp, 1900

Loader used by the John H. Kaiser Timbering Company, 1906

Winter, Sawyer County, Wisconsin

Group of lumberjacks in lumber camp, 1911

Joseph Lebeonf’s logging camp, Winter (vicinity), 1909

Wolf River (vicinity), Wisconsin

Interior of a logging camp bunk house, circa 1900

Barron County, Wisconsin

Rice Lake lumber camp, Hammond Spur, 1905

Rice Lake lumber camp, Hammond Spur, 1906

Rice Lake lumber camp, Hammond Spur, 1907

Rice Lake lumber camp no. 4, 1908

Rice Lake lumber camp no. 4, 1914

Rice Lake camp, overland spur
Note: [2 photographs]

Burnett County, Wisconsin

Wisconsin Orr’s winter camp just north of St. John’s stopping place, Sioux Portage, circa 1886-1887

Chippewa County, Wisconsin

Sunday morning in a lumber camp bunk house, circa 1900-1905

Logging camp, 1907

Forest County, Wisconsin

Logging camp in the Peshtigo River area

Jackson County (?), Wisconsin

Lumber camp, circa 1895
Note: Photographer: C.R. Monroe

Langlade County, Wisconsin

Bateau on the Wolf River at the head of “Hanson Ripples”, circa 1900
Note: Photographer: A.J. Kingsbury, Antigo, Wisconsin

Polk County, Wisconsin

Goar and Stinson lumber camp on the Clam River, 1902

Goar and Stinson logging camp on the Clam River, 1902

Rusk County, Wisconsin

Loggers at dinner in the woods north of Glen Flora, 1907

Sawyer County, Wisconsin

Logging camp and crew, Chippewa River, circa 1875

Bark peeling camp, circa 1890

William Wolf’s logging camp, 1917 February
Note: [2 photographs]

Lumber camp dining room, Sawyer County (?)

Taylor County, Wisconsin

Eau Clair Lumber Co.’s logging camp, north fork of the Eau Clair River, 1879-1880 Winter
Note: Photographer: Tebo and Hanson, Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Vilas County, Wisconsin

Visitors at a logging camp, circa 1895

Lumber camp, circa 1895

Mess shanty at L. and A. Papoose camp, circa 1900-1905

Location unknown

R.O. Dickerman(?) lumber camp

J.A. Lumber Company. Joseph Whitney and Johnny sitting on logs

J.N. Wells lumber camp no. 5, 1916

Lumber camp along the Fairchild and North Eastern railway, circa 1883

Logging camp and crew, circa 1890

Lumber camp, circa 1900

Logging camp buildings, circa 1910

Men and horses in lumber camp

Men standing in front of log structure, probably a lumber camp

Men standing in front of and on top of log structure, probably a lumber camp

Two men in front of log structures, probably a lumber camp

Horses in front of stables, possibly at a lumber camp

Logging camp in northern Wisconsin

Logging crew at supper

Dining room of a Wisconsin logging camp, circa 1900

Dining room, probably of a logging camp

Interior of a cook shanty at a lumber camp, 1907

Kitchen, probably in a lumber camp

Interior of cook shanty, circa 1900

Dining room or kitchen, probably in a lumber camp

Group of men eating outside, probably lumberjacks

Interior of logging camp bunkhouse, circa 1900

Saw filer’s shack at a logging camp

Lumber camp fiddler and jig dancer

Lumber camp blacksmith shop, circa 1908

Shoeing an ox at a Wisconsin lumber camp, circa 1908

Filling the water tank used in a Wisconsin logging camp for icing the roads to make hauling easier, circa 1910

Doing the washing at a lumber camp in northern Wisconsin

Log cabin model and newspaper clipping

Logging camp scene
Note: Copy of painting by Richard Lorenz

Subseries: Cutting, Forests
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Ashland (vicinity), Wisconsin, about 1885
Note: Received with a collection containing a few Ashland views.

Log loader on Wisconsin and Michigan Railway flat cars, Baxter, Wisconsin, 1902

August Mason's lumber property, Big Chetek Lake, Barron County, Wisconsinm about 1902

Logging crew, Big Falls (vicinity), Wisconsin, 1890-1910(?)

Curring crew in the woods, Big Falls, Wisconsin, 1890-1910(?)
Note: Photographer: Carr

Large wheels used for hauling logs, specimens in the logging collection of Oscar Carlson, Brule, Wisconsin, about 1933

Wanigan (lumber camp office and supply barge) riding over the dam, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, 1890-1900(?)

Lunch carrier looking for driving crew, Clam River, Wisconsin, 1901

Lumbering tools displayed in the Farmers' Museum, Cooperstown, New York, about 1946

A lodged tree, McCann's luber camp, Couderay, Sawyer County, Wisconsin, 1913-1914
Note: Photographer: posssbly Reed

Logging crew new Crandon, Three Lakes or Rhinelander, Wisconsin, about 1890

McCann's lumber camp, Couderay, Sawyer County, Wisconsin, 1913-1914
Note

The "road monkey,$#34; the man who sees that the logging road is kept in constant repair.

Photographer: possibly Reed

Keith and Hiles Lumber Company operations, Crandon, Wisconsin, 1910-1915(?)
Note: Photographer: possibly Anderson

Goad and Stinson timber land, Cumberland (vicinity), Barron County, Wisconsin, 1905

A logging operation to get lumber for railroad ties, posts and pulp wood, Draper (vicinity), Sawyer County, Wisconsin, 1913 January 3
Note: Generally, after the large timber has been cut, the small crews will follow to cut the remaining smaller timber, especially in the swamps. These crews usually work by the piece, and furnish their own supplies. In some cases the smaller buildings of old logging camps are utilized, but in this case new buildings accomodating about 20 men had been built for purpose.

A stand of timber comprising birch, basswood, elm, ash, but mostly hemlock, which was being cut at the time of this photo, Draper (vicinity), Sawyer Couny, Wisconsin, 1913 January 3
Note: The earlier stand of pine was cut 20 to 40 years before, when the above stands were considered worthless due to shipping difficulties. The heavier woods would not float without considerable pine attached, so it was impractical to ship it before railroads came in.

A deck of logs waiting to be loaded on sleds to be hauled to the railroad for shipment, Draper (vicinity0, Sawyer County, Wisconsin, 1913 January 2
Note: The man standing in the road is the "road monkey," or the road repair man. At this time, the crews were taking out smaller timber for railroad ties, posts and pulp wood. The large pine stands had been cut 20 to 40 years earlier.

The Dancing Annie, probably a lumber company "wannigan" or floating office and supply store used by the Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company, new Eagle Rapids, Wisconsin, about 1900
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Road on Lammer brothers' lumber property, Drummond (vicinity), Bayfield County, Wisconsin, 1902

August Mason's lummber property, Drummond 9vicinity), Bayfield County, Wisconsin, 1902

Cutting logs, Elcho (vicinity), Wisconsin, 1890
Note

"This may be considered by some people as a simply job, but is it? Frist, the variety of timber to be used had to be selected. Then a notch had to be cut in the tree to guide it in the direction it should fall. It should fall in a clear place. If the tree was large and of brittle timber, care was necessary to fall it where it would not strike and obstacle and break, thus ruining a log cut. Provisions, also, had to be made so that the logs could be gotten at by the oxen without too much crearing away of brush and waste. This latter act was known as swamping. A number of other cares must be considered in falling this monster that had stood for over a century, and perhaps would have stood another century if it had not been interfered with."

"The man at the right is Anton Follstad, at the left, Sigvart Solberg."

Manuscript accompanying this picture in Manuscripts collection of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Follstad Brothers, Elcho, Wisconsin.

A roll-way of logs, Elcho (vicinity), Wisconsin, 1890
Note: "This photograph shows a heavy stand of timber which the crew was working in at the time. With teamster and oxen at the rear of the roll-way, having just brought in a travoy loaded with logs from the slash. It will be noticed at the front of the roll-way that the skids are higher from the ground to better facilitate loading the logs onto the sleighs. Tracks of the latter may be seen in the foreground. Also: saw, ax, and scale rule against a stump in the foreground."

Stacking logs on a sled preparatory to hauling, Florence (vicinity), Wisconsin, about 1890-1895
Note: Photographer: Margaret Faulds, Florence, Wisconsin

Sawyers cutting pine into manageable sizes for hauling, Florence (vicinity), Wisconsin, about 1880(?)

Tree reported by American Forests to be the largest white pine in the world, Forest County, Wisconsin, 1945 Februrary
Note

It measures at breast height 16.8 feet in circumfrence and 64.2 inches in diameter, its total height is 140.42 feet. Total height of the live crown is 85.26 feet and maximum spread of the crown is 47.56 feet. It was discovered about 4 miles northwest of Newold by Louis Tausch, U.S. Forest Ranger, Laona, Wisconsin, Hugh Bennett, U.S. Forest Ranger, and Staber Reese, Wisconsin Conservation Department.

Largest white pine previously reported was on in Eveleth, Minnesota, which measure 14.6 feet in circumfrence.

Since 1945, a claim of a larger tree has been made in Michigan.

Photographer: Wisconsin Conservtion Department, Madison

Hayward, Wisconsin, 1905
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Log cutting, probably in Jackson County, Wisconsin, about 1895
Note: Photographer: C.R. Monroe

Moses and Gaynor's logging operations, Lost Lake 9vicinity), Sawyer County, Wisconsin, 1900
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Felling a pine tree, Lost Lake (vicinity), Sawyer County, Wisconsin, about 1895
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

A langing of pine logs, Lost Lake (vicinity), Sawyer County, Wisconsin, about 1895
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Joseph Zinski's logging operations, Otter Creek, Wisconsin, 1907
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

New Dells Lumber Company's logging road at Camp 10, Price County, Wisconsin, 1914 January 5

Unientified group on the St. Croix River, Wisconsin, below the old bridge, about 1900
Note

The donor's father, Mr. Carr, operated a lumber camp in the St. Croix Falls area.

Photographer: S.C. Sargent, Taylor's Falls, Minnesota

Alexander Larson's logging operations, Yellow River, Taylor County, Wisconsin, 1906
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

University of Wisconsin negative no. 11,366

Photo by Wisconsin Conservation Department, negative no. 3790

Burned over land
Note: Photographer: Wisconsin Conservation Department, Madison

"Timber Cruiser," a linoleum cut by Marie Black done under the Federal Art Project, Wisconsin, 1937

northern Wisconsin (?)

Lumbering in northern Wisconsin

Lumberjacks' 3rd Annual picnic program

Nekoosa Lumbering Company certificate

Forest map of Wisconsin, after Wisconsin Geological Survey, 1882

Dinner in the coppings, about 1890

Unidentified lumbering operation, about 1900 (?)
Note: Copy by Norton and Peel, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Cutting hemlock, about 1900

Deck of logs and woodsmen, about 1913

Making railroad ties, 1913

Sawyers felling pine, about 1913

"Timber cruiser" (top), "river pig" (center), loggers' parade (?) about 1918

Woodcut, probably produced under the Wisconsin Federal Art Project, about 1935

Painting of a an looking over a valley

Path through the woods

Standing pine

Falling pine
Note: Photographer: A.G. Zimmerman

Sawing birch logs into lengths

Men standing with logging equiptment
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Men standing with saw in front of a tree
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Men standing in the woods with their work horses

Men standing next to tree with cut for "falling"
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Men standing in front of tree with saw
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Men standing with fallen trees
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Men standing with a stack of trees
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Men standing in front of tree with a saw
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Two men standing next to a fallen tree with a saw
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

"T.J. Thompson of Barron, Wisconsin and his dog ready for a ttrip to logging campis with good watches and jewelry."

Subseries: Log driving, rafting, marks, jams, tow, booms
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Logging on Wold River, Antigo, Wisconsin

Logging on the Wolf, Antigo, Wisconsin

Ashland, Wisconsin, about 1945

A log drive, Ashland (vicinity), Wisconsin, about 1910

Ashland (vicinity), Wisconsin, about 1885

A driving crew at Rice Lake, Barron County, Wisconsin, about 1900

A log jam, perhaps on the Black River or the Chippewa River in the area of Black River Falls, Wisconsin, about 1880-1889

East Fork Construction Company of La Crosse, Wisconsin, driving crew on the east fork of the Black River, Wisconsin, 1884-1885
Note

Charles Gettinger (seated holding a plate in the front row), foreman. The cew drives logs and keeps the river open for various logging companies. The manuscript collection adds the words "at Spaulding," and as this is not a place, name, they were probably working an area belonging to Spaulding, one of the biggest lumbermen on the Black River who had his headquarters at Black River Falls.

According to a researcher (1988), there was a Spaulding post office for a time in eastern Jackson County, which probably was a lumber camp. The stream could be the east fork of the Black River.

Logs on the Little Wolf River, Big Falls, Wisconsin, about 1900

Log jam at Big Eddy during the CL and B Company drive, Chippewa Falls (vicinity), Wisconsin, 1905

Log jam at the Chippewa Falls boom, Chippewa Falls (vicinity), Wisconsin, 1869
Note: Wood engraving from a photo by N.A. Preston.

Logs piled up in the dalles about Eau Claire by a flood, Chippewa River, Wisconsin, 1894
Note: Photographer: J.B. Gallaher, Chippewa Falls.

Clam Falls on the Clam River, Wisconsin, about 1900

Brunette Falls on the Chippewa River, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, about 1908
Note: Photographer: A.A. Bish, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin

Log running on the Chippewa River, Wisconsin, 1904
Note: Photographer: probably A.A. Bish, Chippewa Falls.

Log driving crew with bateaux, Chippewa Falls (vicinity), Wisconsin, about 1908
Note: Photographer: Bish, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin

Log jam, Chippewa River, Wisconsin, 1869

Jim Falls of the Chippewa River, at the Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company's drive, Chippewa County, Wisconsin, 1909
Note: Photographer: probably Bish, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin

Log driving crew at Eagle Rapids Dam on Chippewa River, Wisconsin, 1909
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Diagram of log raft and log boom construction, as used on the Chippewa River, Wisconsin

Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company's lumber driving crew, Chippewa River, Chippewa County, Wisconsin, 1906

Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company's log driving grew, Chippewa River, Chippewa County, Wisconsin, 1905-1906(?)

Log jam, Chippewa River, Wisconsin, 1890-1900(?)

A wanigan and bateau on the Chippewa River, Chippewa Falls (vicinity), Wisconsin, 1896
Note: Photographer: A.A. Bish, Chippewa Falls.

Log jam at the Big Eddy on the Chippewa River, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, 1903
Note: Photographer: Bish, Chippewa Falls.

Stream with logs on the Goar and Stinson lumber holdings, Clam River, Polk County, Wisconsin, 1902
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Goar and Stinson log driving crew, Clam River, Polk County, Wisconsin, 1902
Note: Photographer: 1902

Goar and Stinson log driving crew, Clam River, Polk County, Wiscosnin, 1902
Note: Photographer: probably Charlnd

Goar and Stinson log driving crew, Clam River, Polk County, Wisconsin, 1901
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Log driviers, Goar and Stinson, Clam River, Polk County, Wisconsin, 1902

Clam Falls, Polk County, Wisconsin, 1902
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Goar and Stinson log driving crew, Clam River, Polk County, Wisconsin, 1902
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Log driving crew at the Gore and Stinson camp, Clam River, Wisconsin, 1901

Log reservoir at the Dells, Eaur Claire, Wisconsin, 1884 and about 1905
Note

The stereo was taken during a flood in 1884.

Stereographer: O.C. Merriman, Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

Dells Pond and log reservoir, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, about 1890
Note: The pond is a widening of the river bend on the Chippewa River. This photograph has also been identified as being on the Eau Claire River, but the river ony enters the Chippewa over a mile or more to the east of the south end of Dells Pond in the center of Eau Claire.

Lumber rafts on the Red Cedar River, Dunnville, Wisconsin, 1897

Looking upstream towards the piers of the "head boom" of a log sorting works on the Eau Claire River. Logs entered the boom to the right of the wide "flat boom" in the center of the picture. After an identification was made by sorters standing on the plank stretched over the log channel the logs were pushed into pockets containing like branded logs or sent down river tot he next sorting works. Eau Claire Lumber Company.,

The large Dells log reservoir in the Eau Claire River (?), Eau Claire (vicinity), Wisconsin, 1900-1910(?)

End stamp patterns used to identify the owners of logs, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, 1951
Note: Exhibited in the Paul Bunyan Camp museum, Carson Park.

Dells log reservoir, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, about 1900

Sawmill pond with boom, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, 1929 June 14

Label on display of end stamps used to identify logs, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, 1951
Note: Shown at the Paul Bunyan Camp museum, Carson Park.

Eau Claire River Bridge east of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, about 1890-1900(?)

Center jam of big logs left hanging at the Big Falls, Flambeau River, Wisconsin, about 1900(?)

Log raft on the Mississippi River, Fulton, Illinois, 1901 July 14
Note: View looking downstream, from the Fulton (Illinois) bridge. This raft was en route from Stillwater, Minnesota to Muscatine, Iowa, pushed by towboat J.W. VAN SANT of Rock Island (Illinois), and steered by the towboad LYDIA VAN SANT. A legend on the back of the photograph informs that the "light colored logs are early cutting from which the bark has dropped off. The dark logs are reccent cutting, with the bark still on."

Log raft on the Mississippi, Fulton, Illinois, 1901 July 14
Note

View looking upstream, probably from Fulton (Illinois) bridge. This raft was en route from Stillwater, Minnesota to Muscatine, Iowa, pushed by the towboat J.W. VAN SANT of Rock Island (Illinois) and steered by the towboat LYDIA VAN SANT. A legend on the back of the photograph mounth informs that the "light colored logs are early cutting from which the bark as dropped off. The dark logs are recent cutting with the bark still on."

In charge of the unit were CAptain George Tromley of LeClaire, Iowa, Pilot John McDonald of Davenport, Iowa, and Mate James Lyons of Albany, Illinois. On of the crew, Mr. Lafe (Doc) Nevitt of Albany, Illinois, presented the original photograph to Duane S. Miller of Mendota, Illinois. Copied from the original photograph loaned by Florance Bittner of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, 1956. Original photographer by Fairbanks, 210 5th Avenue, Clinton, Iowa.

Log landing at the Minneapolis Canal Company, Gagen (near Rhinelander), Wisconsin, 1903

A driving crea on the north branch of the Popple River, Florence County, Wisconsin, about 1900(?)

Lumber raft passing over Kilbourn dam, Kuilbourn (Wisconsin Dells), Wisconsin, about 1890

Probably the boat yard of Hixon and Withee company which operated towboats and barges on the Mississippi River, La Crose (or vicinity), Wisconsin, about 1880
Note

In the 1875-1880 period, most lumber was shipped on barges which often towed coal on the return trip up the river. After 1880, lumber rafts became more common, and the barges gradually disappeared as a large operation. Hixton and Withee were just one of several such companies.

"A History of La Crosse, Wisconsin, 1841-1900," by Sanford and Hirschheimer, 1951, p. 168

Floating log raft at the mouth of Black River, La Crosse, Wisconsin, circa 1850

Log raft, Lake Noguebay, Wisconsin, 1909

The log rafting towboad PHIL SCHECKEL, owned by Knapp, Stout and Company of Menomonie, Wisconsin, and operated on the Chippewa and Mississippi Rivers, about 1874-1878
Note: Stenographer: W.L. Bachelder, Durand, Wisconsin.

Place's Rapids on the Peshtigo River, Wisconsin, about 1905
Note: "River pigs" rounding up stranded and strayed logs with pikes and peaveys. Ox and horse-teams dragged heavier ogs from the rocks and bars.

Drivers breaking up a log jam with shoes and pike poles, Peshtigo River, Wisconsin, 1900-1910(?)

"River hogs*#34; working logs off the rocks at Potato Rapids on the Peshtigo River, Wiscosnin, about 1914
Note: Camps were often erected at such trouble-spots with a permanent crew to keep logs moving over the shallows.

Breaking up a log jam in the Peshtigo River area, about 1900

Log pond and log sorting operation in the Peshtigo River area, 1890-1910(?)

Log driving crew at Goar and Stinson headquarters camp, Plum Falls flowage, Wisconsin, 1902
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Driving crew at work, Podunk Pond, Wisconsin, about 1890

A lumber raft at the levee at Prescott, Wisconsin, about 1912
Note: This is supposedly the last lumber raft taken down the Missisippi River, but as so many photos are labeled this should be taken with some skepticism. The junction of the St. Croix and Mississippi Rivers is shown, as well as the Mercord mill at right.

Log driving crew, Yellow River, Taylor County, Wisconsin, 1910
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Sorting gap 2 miles north of Rhinelander on the Wisconsin River, 1910-1915(?)

Log jam, St. Croix River (?), Wisconsin, 1896

Steamer MARY B with a "million dollar" lumber raft on the Mississippi, Trempealeau (vicinity), Wisconsin, about 1900(?)

River drivers getting logs off rocks below the dam, Rhinelander (vicinity), Wisconsin, 1890-1900(?)

Rivers "sacking" the rapids below the dam, Rhinelander, Wisconsin, about 1890

Log jam, St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin

Logs at Nevers Dam, probably near St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin

Log jam at the dalles of the St. Croix River estimated at one hundred and fifty million feet, 1886 June
Note: Photographer: S.C. Sargent, Taylors Falls, Minnesota.

Logs near the head of the Dalles, St. Croix River, Wisconsin, 1886
Note: A jam such as this caused untold damage and hardship to the industry.

Log jam at the head of the dalles about 5 miles long, St. Croix River, Wisconsin, 1886
Note: 50,000,000 board feet of white pine were piled up.

Log landing, Lost Lake (vicinity), Sawyer County, Wisconsin, about 1895
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Picturesque St. Croix, Stillwater, Minnesota, about 1880
Note: Photographer: F.E. Loomis, Stillwater

Raft construction, Wausau, Wisconsin, 1865

Log jam on the Wisconsin River, about 1900

Logging operation on the Wisconsin River, 1913-1914
Note

This is evidently the cook's tent on a raft.

Photographer: Joseph Smith, M.D., Wausau, Wisconsin.

View on the Wisconsin River, Wisconsin Dells (vicinity), Wisconsin, 1866 June
Note: Photographer: H.H. Bennett of Kilbourn City, Wisconsin.

A lumber raft going over the Kilbourn Dam, Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, about 1890
Note: Photographer: H.H. Bennett, Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin.

A flooding dam used in logging operations in northern Wisconsin, about 1895
Note: PhotographerL probably Charland

A log raft with tow boat, about 1932

B. HERSHEY towing a log raft on the upper Mississippi River, 1890-1900(?)

Logs pile on a frozen stream in anticipation of the spring thaw

Wanigan or lumber camp office and supply boat going down the rapids of the Flambeau River

Men posing for a picture with food and drinks

Image of M.R.L. Co. log marks, 1908(?)

Image of bark mark and end stamp

Boat on the river steering logs

Men with logs under a dam

Log driving cew in northern Wisconsin(?)
Note: Photographer: C.E. Baldwin(?)

Logging channel and East Bridge, Mississippi River, Twin Cities, Minnesota

Logging on St. Croix River, near Twin Cities, Minnesota

Views in and around Stillwater, Minnesota,
Note: Photographer: James Sinclair

Lumber raft on the Mississippi River

Rafts of logs, Columbia River, Washington

Men standing with fallen logs

Men standing on logs in the River

Allegedly the "last" of the great lumber rafts going down the Mississippi River, passing the pontoon bridge opposite Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, in McGregor, Iowa, 1915
Note

Aft is the tow boat and forward is the bow boat used for steering the raft.

Photographer: William Irvine (?)

"Chippewa Falls Union Lumbering Co's Mammoth Raft"

The crew at the West Newton rafting works, about 1889-1890
Note: Photographer: Priewert Brothers, Winona, Minnesota.

Winona, Minnesota(?), about 1919

Subseries: Loading and Hauling with Oxen, Tractor, Rail, Truck
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“Bringing logs into Antigo, Wisconsin”

“Logging the old and the new way. Antigo, Wisconsin”

Rice Lake Lumber Camps, Barron County

Lenord spur, Wisconsin, 1905

Bundy spur, Wisconsin, 1910

Lenord Spur, Wisconsin, 1907

Hammon Spur, Wisconsin, 1907

Camp no. 1, Overland spur, 1913

Geared-drive locomotive tractor, Overland spur, 1914

Camp no. 4, Stout spur, 1914

August Mason's lumber camp, Big Chetek Lake, Barron County, Wisconsin, 1903

Oxen and loggers on the Spaulding lumber property, Black River Falls (vicinity), Wisconsin, 1890-1895(?)

Landing on the river at Bruce, Bruce (vicinity), Wisconsin, about 1880

Steam tractor hauling logs on the Arpin Lumber Company holdings, Bruce(vicinity), Wisconsin, 1910-1915

The first sleigh load of logs over hauled on cars at Bruce, Wisconsin, 1906 February 17

Moses and Gaynor lumber being hauled to Babbs Island on the Flambeau River for the Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company, Thornapple River near Cameron Dam, Wisconsin, 1908-1909
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Brune Vinette's skidway, Chippewa Falls (vicinity), Wisconsin, 1904

Hauling logs, Elcho (vicinity), Wiscosnin, 1890
Note

“Here we have Anton Follstand on a load of logs headed for the sawmill in Elcho….such oxen! It is made for the special purpose of hauling on the road….the padding comes mostly on the back of the animal's neck, where the heavy bearing is. A horse harness bear on the point of the shoulders. The load is header for a three mile trip. Oxen were seldom used on longer hauls than this…Oxen have no lines to guide them. They are trained to obey the command of ‘gee' and ‘ha,' right and left.‘Whoo' is the command they are quickest to obey. This means stop. The teamsters always have a six foot narrow stick with a brad in the end andn if the team is lagging he pricks their hide and they quickly step up.”

Manuscript accompanying this picture in Manuscripts collections of the State Historical Society, Follstand Brothers, Elcho, Wisconsin

Scene at lumber camp, possibly near Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, about 1900
Note: Photographer: probably A.A. Bish of Chippewa Falls

Oxen hauling logs on the Spaulding holdings, Clark County, Wisconsin, 1890-1895(?)

Decking crew at Otto Tischer's lumber camp, Crandon, Wisconsin, 1918-1919
Note: Photographer: Parfitt

Team of oxen, probably at McCann's lumber camp, Couderay, Sawyer County, Wisconsin, 1913-1914
Note: Photographer: possibly Reed

Fountain & Campbell Lumber Company logging camp and steam hauler, Donald(vicinity), Wisconsin, 1907
Note: The steam engine is a Phoenix which was made in Eau Claire, Wisconsin Mr. LeMay was logging superintendent for this company for 13 years.

Jack Ryan's logging operations, Draper (vicinity), Sawyer County, Wisconsin, 1908
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Jack Ryan's logging operations, Draper (vicinity), Sawyer County, Wisconsin, 1911
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Jack Ryan's logging operation, Draper (vicinity), Sawyer County, Wisconsin, 1911
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

A logging operation to get lumber for railroad ties, posts and pulp wood, Draper(vicinity), Sawyer County, Wisconsin, 1913 January
Note

Generally, after the large timber has been cut, the small crews will follow to cut the remaining timber, especially in swamps. These crews usually work by the piece, and furnish their own supplies. In some cases the smaller buildings of old logging camps are utilized, but in this case new buildings accommodating about 20 men had been built for the purpose (seen in background). This camp is built along the edge of some remaining large timber, but it will be left standing in this case.

The oxen are pulling a “go-devil” or v-shaped sledge to haul to logs to the skidway. By 1913, oxen were not often used anymore.

Tractor hauling logs, Douglas County, Wisconsin, 1936
Note: Photographer: Wisconsin Conservation Department, Madison

Skidding, Elcho (vicinity), Wisconsin, 1890
Note

“In this photograph we see a fine ox team wearing a yoke. Notice the horns on the near one, left one of the team. Julius Follstad is standing behind the team holding his ‘gord-stick' (properly goad-stick). Carl Follstand is shown with the cant hook, holding the log being ‘travoid' in. Notice the chain leading from the ox yoke back through the nose of the ‘travoy' or crotch and around the log lying on the bunk of the crotch. The logs had to cleared of brush and a ‘snake road' made for them before they could be hauled to the skidway by the oxen. After they reached the skidway they were rolled to the sleigh road on a log, straight tree trunks or ‘skids'…”

Manuscript accompanying this picture in the manuscripts collection, Follstad Brothers, Elcho, Wisconsin

Steam tractor hauling log.

Phoenix Steam log hauling engine pulling logs
Note: Photographer: Wisconsin Conservation Department

Logging train, Fairchild, Wisconsin, about 1880
Note: Photographer: M.W. Burns, Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Posing with oxen, Florence (vicinity), Wisconsin, about 1880

Lumber camp, Goodman, Wisconsin, 1891-1892
Note: Goodman was probably only a small post office town composed solely of the lumbering operation. It was in northern Marinette County on the Chicago, Milwaukee and Sault St. Marie Railroad.

The loading works at the Yellow River Lumber Company, Hughey, Taylor County, Wisconsin, 1890-1900(?)

Logging train with lumber from Yellow River, Hughey, Taylor County, Wisconsin, 1910
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Logging operations, Juneau County (?), Wisconsin, about 1885

Lima locomotive no. 6 and lumber train on the Holt Lumber Company property, Oconto (vicinity), Wisconsin, 1910-1911

Upham Lumber Company logging crew and engineer Frank Lueckenback in the woods with “Old Vanderbilt” engine formerly the Wisconsin Central railroad engine no. 47, Marshfield (vicinity), Wisconsin, about 1888
Note: This locomotive was originaly the New York P&B Oregon renamed C. Vanderbilt. She was built in Taunton, Massachusetts in 1847.

Unidentified logging operation, Merrill (vicinity), Wisconsin, about 1903
Note: Photographer: K.E. Nordland, Merrill, Wisconsin

Moses and Gaynor logging operations, Moose River (Ashland County), Wisconsin, 1900

W.H. Rogers Lumber Company operations, probably at the camp at Nashville, Wisconsin, about 1900(?)

A team of oxen pulling logs, possibly at the Necedah Lumber Company, Necedah, Wisconsin, about 1885
Note: The driver is identified as Jack Nooney of Necedah.

Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway, engine 547, unloading logs, Necedah, Wisconsin, 1891 June
Note: Ellis F. Ellis, engineer, and A.J. Lambert, fireman.

Holt Lumber Company logging train, Oconto (vicinity), Wisconsin, about 1912

Millston (vicinity), Jackson County, Wisconsin, 1941
Note: Photographer: Wisconsin Conservation Department

Logging train north of Star Lake in Vilas County, Wisconsin, about 1890(?)

Vilas County, Wisconsin, about 1885

Photo by Wisconsin Conservation Department, Madison, Wisconsin

Loading logs on flat cars at a Wisconsin logging operation

A type of dolly used for skidding logs
Note: This would have been otherwise difficult to transport due to extreme size or lack of snow and ice on the ground. The heavy end of the log was lifted off the ground by the pulley system of chains and gears, leaving the other end dragging on the ground, travois fashion. This not only reduced the drag of the log on bare ground but prevented it from picking up sand and gravel which played havoc on saw blades.

Zeda (vicinity), Jackson County, Wisconsin, 1886

Hauling logs with oxen, about 1870

Hauling logs with oxen, about 1880

Holmes & Sons Logging Railroad ready to start for landing, about 1880-1890(?)

N.C. Foster lumber operations, probably along the Fairchild and North Eastern railway, about 1883-1884

A Wisconsin log landing, about 1890

Hauling logs with oxen in harness, about 1890

Old Dells Lumber Company loading operations along the Gillette Spur, 1904

Logging train, about 1907

Hauling logs with steam log-hauler, 1908

Steam log hauler, about 1910

Men with oxen
Note: Photographer: Charland

Logging train

Unidentified locomotive at lumber(?) camp

Unidentified logging operation

“Wisconsin logging train”

Photographer: Wisconsin Conservation Department, Madison, Wisconsin

Skidding with oxen

Photographer: Wisconsin Conservation Department

Photographer: probably Charland

Photographer: Wisconsin Conservation Department

Sawyers with oxen and felled logs

Piled up logs

Loading logs on flat cars with steam jammer

Flat car loaded with logs

The hoist for loading logs onto flatcars, after 1925
Note

The “jammer” is set on a platform which can be moved from one car to the next as the car in front is loaded. Since the jammer here is gas powered rather than steam driven type used before 1925.

The company probably had its own railroad, since the cars in the picture are not regulation railroad flatcars with flat platform and standard hitches.

Subseries: Loading and Hauling with Horses
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Water tank sled used for icing roads for Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company operations, otter Creek, Wisconsin, 1907
Note

Iced roads make hauling of loads of logs easier.

Photographer: probably Charland

Decking logs with a horse-powered chain lift at Rice Lake Camp No. 3, Stout Spur, Barron County, Wisconsin, 1911
Note: The logs were raised by block and tackle, the team pulling at right angles to the lift.

Team of horses pulling load of logs from Vinette's lumber camp, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, 1899
Note: Photographer: probably A.A. Bish of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin

Loading at Ole Emerson's lumber property, Cable (vicinity), Bayfield, Wisconsin, 1905

Load coming down grade at Ole Emerson's lumber property, No. 4, Cable(vicinity), Bayfield County, Wisconsin, 1914

Moses and Gaynor's lumbering operations, Lost Lake (vicinity), Sawyer County, Wisconsin, 1900
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

D. Sulivan's landing, Antigo, Wisconsin, 1886
Note: Photographer: Morgan Bros.

One of the four horse loads

Horse load with two men on top
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Ashland (vicinity). Wisconsin, about 1885

Untitled oil painting on canvas by Sevald O. Lund, 1901
Note: The original painting measures 60”x108”. It is in the collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

Horses pulling a load of logs, probably at the Necedah Lumber Company, Necedah, Wisconsin, about 1890

A rutter at Rice Lake lumber camp, Barron County, Wisconsin, 1905-1910

William Wolf's logging camp, Sawyer County, Wisconsin, 1917 February 15?
Note: The men are loading logs on the sled.

Hauling with horses, McCann's lumber camp, Couderay, Sawyer County, Wisconsin, 1913-1914
Note: Photographer: possibly Reed

Felling a big pine, about 1890

Skidding with dray at McCann's lumber camp, Couderay, Sawyer County, Wisconsin, 1913-1914
Note: Photographer: Reed

Hauling logs by sled

Unidentified lumber camp, about 1900

Unidentified lumbering operation, probably near Wausau, Wisconsin, about 1900
Note: Photographer: J.F. Schreiber, Wausau, Wisconsin

Hauling logs by sled
Note: Photographer: Neevel, Baldwin, Wisconsin

Arping lumber company loggers loading a lumber sled, Bruce (vicinity), Wisconsin, 1904
Note: Photographer: P.A. Brainerd, Bruce, Wisconsin

Wisconsin Valley lumber company's “star load,” Harrison (vicinity), Wisconsin, 1889 March 15
Note

22 16 foot logs, sealing 13,560 feet, which was actually hauled by 4 horses. This was at the company's camp no. 1.

Photographer: Prosser and Soper, Antigo, Wisconsin

Group of lumberman, Sawyer County, Wisconsin, 1895
Note: Second from right is Charles Ring, then a boy of 14, later employed by the county highway department. Original photo loaned to the State Historical Society of Wisconsin by Anthony Wise of the Sawyer County Historical Society.

Logging in northern Wisconsin, 1885
Note: Artist: T. de Thulstrup

Load of 63 logs containing 31,480 feet of lumber, 21 feet high and 20 feet wide, hauled by four horses, one mile, by the Ann River logging company, 1892 February 13
Note

The size of the sled upon which this load was hauled is as follows: the runners are 5 inch thick, 11 inch high, 9 feet long. The rocker is 15x18 inches square, 16 feet 3 inches long. Estimated weight of sled and chains is 5 tons, estimated total weight of load is 113 tons.

Photographer: S.C. Sargent, Taylors Falls, Minnesota

Logging, probably on the Brule river near Florence, Wisconsin, about 1890-1895
Note: Photographer: Margaret Faulds, Florence

Loading logs on a sled, Mosinee (vicinity), Wisconsin, 1913-1914
Note: Photographer: Joseph Smith, M.D., Wausau, Wisconsin

Men with horse and oxen
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Unidentified lumbering operation, about 1900

Logging operation of J.L. Leeper, Prentice (vicinity), Wisconsin, about 1880
Note: Thomas Fleming was foreman.

A rutter at work, Lost Lake (vicinity), Sawyer County, Wisconsin, about 1895
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Road maker or rutter, used in Wisconsin logging camp for preparing roads, about 1910

Tank wagon used for icing roads on which logs are to be hauled from lumber camp, Humbird (vicinity), Clark County, Wisconsin, 1900-1910
Note: Photographer: Edward T. Hale

Skidding crew of Kelly's camp on the west fork of the Chippewa, 1897

Hauling logs with horses, about 1895

Water tank used for icing roads to make hauling of logs easier

Keith and Hiles lumber company operations, Crandon, Wisconsin, 1910-1915
Note: Photographer: probably Anderson

Logging operations, Juneau County, Wisconsin, about 1895

Hauling logs with horses
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Ole Emerson's lumber property, Cable (vicinity), Bayfield County, Wisconsin, 1904

Horses hauling logs
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

New Dells logging camp, no. 8, Kennedy (vicinity), Price County, Wisconsin, 1914
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Horses hauling logs, Photographer: probably Charland

A rutter at work, Lost Lake (vicinity), Sawyer County, Wisconsin, about 1895
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Two horses hauling logs
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Falling tree on Ole Emerson's lumber property, Cable (vicinity), Bayfield County, Wisconsin, 1905

New Dells lumber camp, no. 8, Kennedy (vicinity), Price County, Wisconsin, 1914
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Horses hauling logs, Photographer: probably Charland

Unidentified lumbering operation, about 1900

Moses and Gaynor logging operations, Moose River, Ashland County, Wisconsin, 1900

Logging operations
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Hauling logs, Lost Lake (vicinity), Sawyer County, Wisconsin, about 1895
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Rice Lake lumber camp, Bundy's Spur, Barron County, Wisconsin, 1908

Loading and hauling logs, Lost Lake (vicinity), Sawyer County, Wisconsin, about 1895
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Ole Emerson's logging operations, Lost Lake (vicinity), Sawyer County, Wisconsin, 1905
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Moses and Gaynor's logging operations, Lost Lake (vicinity), Sawyer County, Wisconsin, 1900
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

William Tibbett's logging operations, Radisson (vicinity), Sawyer County, Wisconsin, 1903
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Keith and Hiles lumber company operations, Crandon, Wisconsin, 1910-1915
Note: Photographer: probably Anderson

Horse team at the landing of camp 2 of Hein's Lumber Camp, Chippewa County, Wisconsin, 1904-1905
Note: Photographer: A.A. Bish of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin

Knox Landing, Wisconsin, 1890-1900

Load of logs at the camp of Necedah lumber company, Tarbox Spur, Wisconsin, 1890-1910

Smith and Hanson logging operations, Thornapple River, Rusk County, Wisconsin, 1900
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Loading of 13,000 feet of lumber (not a picked load) at Kelly's lumber camp, Chippewa County, Wisconsin, 1890-1900

Load of logs on the John Arpin Lumber Company, Arpin, Wisconsin, about 1894

Loading logs, Black River Falls (vicinity), Wisconsin, 1885-1890

Logging crew and load, Waupaca County, Wisconsin, 1890-1910
Note: Photographer: Carr

Load of logs in the woods, Big Falls (vicinity), Wisconsin, 1895-1905
Note: Photographer: Carr

Painting by Frederick Remington, the third in a series on “man's conquest of the wooded wilderness”

Logging operations

J.A. Babbitt logging operations, Foley, Wisconsin, 1911
Note: Photographer: probably by Charland

T.J. Thompson (on load, seated, wearing apron) as a lumber camp worker, 1887
Note: Thompson later (1903-16) traveled among the lumber camps with a sledge drawn by a dog selling watches.

Load of logs on the Spauling Lumber Company's property, Black River Falls (vicinity), Wisconsin, 1890-1895
Note: Photographer: Morgan Danks, Colby

Logging operations

Old Emerson's lumber property, Cable (vicinity), Bayfield County, Wisconsin, 1906

Sixteen horse team at Lammer Broc lumber camp pulling up-grade 10,000 feet of Norway pin in 32 and 34 inch logs, Drummond (vicinity), Bayfield County, 1902

August Mason's lumber property, Cable (vicinity), Bayfield County, Wisconsin, 1903

Logging road down grade, Lost Lake (vicinity), Sawyer County, Wisconsin, about 1895
Note

Note the hay laid across the rut, to serve as a brake for the load of logs.

Photographer: probably Charland

Old Emerson's lumber property, Cable (vicinity), Bayfield County, Wisconsin, 1906

“Logging scene, Antigo, Wisconsin”

Sled loaded with logs at Bruno Vinett's camp, Chippewa County, 1903

Loads of logs on D. Sullivan's lumber property, Antigo (vicinity), Wisconsin, 1886 February
Note

No. 1, Lenard Jardre, 3500 feet, no. 2, Ole Hanson, 2800 feet, no. 3, Hank Linch, 3400 feet, no. 4, Thomas Smith, 4100 feet, no. 5, (Napoleon?) Garney, 3300 feet.

Photographer: Morgan Brothers, Antigo

A lumber camp along the Fairchild and North Eastern railway, about 1883

Hauling logs on the E.S. Hammond property, Lost Lake, Wisconsin, 1890-1900

Old Emeron's lumber property, Cable (vicinity), Wisconsin, Bayfield County, Wisconsin, 1905

Logging sleds and loads of logs at Ole Emerson's camp, Cable, Wisconsin, 1904

Logging operations

Loading logs, Ogema (vicinity), Price County, Wisconsin, about 1945
Note: Photographer: Clayton Lurvey

“12,800 feet of lumber, Antigo, Wisconsin”

Logging operations

A prize load of logs, 1910

William Wolf's logging camp, Sawyer County, Wisconsin, 1917 February 15
Note: Transferring logs from the sleds to the railroad cars. These sleds with the chains alone weight about 3 tons and they carry about 100 tons of logs.

Lammer Bros. Camp, Drummond (vicinity), Wisconsin, 1901
Note

134 pine logs, scale 16,120 feet. Estimated weight of sleighs 6,000 pounds. Estimated weight of logs 15,000 pounds. Total 21,000 pounds.

Photographer: Wisconsin Conservation Department

Hein's lumber camp, Chippewa County, Wisconsin, about 1895-1900

Horse-drawn sled loaded with logs, Chippewa County, Wisconsin, 1903
Note: Photographer: probably A.A. Bish, Chippewa Falls

Load of logs, Chippewa County, Wisconsin, 1890-1900

Horse teams pulling a large load of logs

Logging operations
Note: Photographer: Wisconsin Conservation Department

Ole Emerson's lumber property, Cable (vicinity), Bayfield County, Wisconsin, 1906

Ole Emerson lumber property no. 3, Cable (vicinity), Bayfield County, Wisconsin, 1908

Horse-drawn sleigh loaded with six cords of hand wood hauled 5 miles by J. Huber (father of the late Dr. Huber of Minocqua), 1919 February 15
Note: Approximate weight 24,000 pounds. These horses are a pair of 4-year olds.

“Lumbering in Wisconsin, hauling logs with horses, about 1900”

Load of logs, Wittenberg (vicinity), Wisconsin, about 1890
Note: Photographer: C.A. Spicer

Load of logs on the Spaulding Lumber Company property in Black River Falls (vicinity), Clark County, Wisconsin, 1890-1899
Note: Photographer: possibly Morgan Danks, Colby

Sled loaded with logs at the landing at Hein's lumber camp, Chippewa Falls (vicinity), Wisconsin, 1904-1905
Note: Photographer: probably A.A. Bish, Chippewa Falls

Ashland (vicinity), Wisconsin, about 1910

Load of logs, perhaps from the D. Sulivan camp near Antigo, Wisconsin, about 1920

Price County, Wisconsin, about 1900
Note: Photographer: S.A. Johnson, Phillips, Wisconsin

Logging operations
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Deck of logs on the Lee Hammond property, Winter (vicinity), Wisconsin, 1912
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

New Dells lumber camp, no. 8, Kennedy (vicinity), Price County, Wisconsin, 1914
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Rice Lake lumber camp, Hammond Spur, Barron County, Wisconsin, 1908

Logging operations
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Decking logs, 1907

Decking logs at a Wisconsin lumber camp, about 1908

Decking crew at George Bailey's lumber camp, Crandon, Wisconsin, 1918-1919
Note: Photographer: Parfitt

Decking crew at Tisher's landing, Crandon, Wisconsin, 1918
Note: Photographer: Partiff

Keith and Hiles Lumber Company decking crew, Crandon, Wisconsin, 1910-1920

Goar and Stinson stack of logs, Clam River, Polk County, Wisconsin, 1903
Note: Photographer: probably Charland

Lumber operations at the N.C. Foster property, Bright, Wisconsin, 1885-1890

Logging operations

Subseries: Sawmills
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Sawyer Lumber Company built on the Sawyer-Jewell Creek, Algoma (now part of Oshkosh), Wisconsin, about 1860
Note: This mill was originally the Forman and Bashford sawmill, and was the first mill in Oshkosh to use power saws.

Upham Brothers sawmill built and operated by William and Charles Upham, Wisconsin, 1875
Note: After the Peshtigo fire of 1871 this mill was started to salvage the burnt over time of the area. By 1879 the supply was exhausted and William Upham moved on to Marshfield where he continued lumbering operations.

Weed's mill was erected by A. Weed in 1882, one mile south of the Town of, Wisconsin, 1883

Unidentified sawmill, Antigo (vicinity), Wisconsin, about 1890

Unidentified sawmill believed to be near Antigo, Wisconsin, about 1800-1890

Unidentified lumbering sawmill believed to be D. Sullivan's near Antigo, Wisconsin, about 1880

W.F. Holbrook's mill pond, saw mill and factory in the foreground, Arkansaw, Wisconsin, between 1872-1881

Northern Wisconsin Lumber and Manufacturing Company, Ashland, Wisconsin, 1900
Note: Notations on the original mount state: “Low water but enough to run mill”

Bay front and docks showing lumber awaiting shipment by rail, Ashland, Wisconsin, about 1875
Note: Note in front of shack the logs placed to allow other logs to be rolled onto railroad cars. Stereography: Raitt &

Arpin Lumber Company sawmill, Atlanta, Wisconsin, about 1904

Lumber mill in the town of Bayfield, Wisconsin, about 1870-1880
Note: Photographer: Whitney and Zimmerman, Saint Paul, Minnesota

Wall Spalding Sawmill, Big Falls, Wisconsin

Andrews and Roepke Lumber Company's planning mill, Birnamwood, Wisconsin, about 1880-1890

Unidentified sawmill, Birnamwood, Wisconsin, about 1880-1890

Biron Sawmill, Biron, Wisconsin, about 1890

Albion Mills owned by D.J. Spaulding, Black River Falls, Wisconsin, about 1890

A small sawmill owned by Jacob Spaulding, probably Clark County, Wisconsin, about 1890

Spaulding logging camp, Clark County, Wisconsin, about 1890
Note: Photographer: M. Danks, Colby, Wisconsin

Log sled and crew at a Spaulding sawmill in Clark County, Wisconsin, about 1890

Lumber mill in Forest County, Blackwell, Wisconsin, about 1900-1905

Deserted lumber mill in Forest County, Wisconsin, 1938
Note: Photographer: M.E. Diemer, Madison, Wisconsin

Sawyerman's mill, Catawissa Creek, Pennsylvania, about 1880
Note: Photographer: C.W. Woodward, Rochester, N.Y.

Air seasoning practice of a small sawmill, Centerville (vicinity), Mississippi
Note: Photographer: M.E. Diemer, Madison, Wisconsin

Ihrig sawmill, founded by William Ihrig Sr. in 1894, Centuria, Wisconsin, about 1900

Cheever's Mill on the St. Croix River

Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin

Beyond the Wagon Bridge over the Chippewa River is the Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company's “Big Mill,”, 1889

Looking up from the river at the Chippewa Lumber Company and Book from Big Eddy, the site where the Wisconsin Central Railroad depot now stands, 1889 July 15

Below the falls, taken from the “south side,”

Interior of the “Big Mill”

Interior of the “Big Mill”

“Big Mills”

Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company at high water, taken from the south, about 1889

Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company's “Big Mill”

“Big Mill”

“Big Mill”

Chippewa Lumber and Boom sawmill, 1907

“Big Mill”

Interior of the Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company Mill, about 1900
Note: Photographer: Bish, Chippewa Falls

Interior of the “Big Mill”
Note: Photographer: A.A. Bish, Chippewa Falls

The “Big Mill”, 1888

A section of the lumber yard in connection with the “Big Mill”, 1900
Note: Photographer: A.A. Bish, Chippewa Falls

“Big Mill”, 1904
Note: Photographer: A.A. Bish, Chippewa Falls

Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company high water, about 1888-1890

Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company, 1908

Eddy Creek sawmill, Couderay, Sawyer County, Wisconsin, 1913-1914
Note: Photographer: possibly Reed

Sawmill employees, probably near Crandon, Wisconsin, about 1900

Hiles sawmill established in 1815 by George Hiles, Dexterville, Wisconsin, about 1900

Hiles saw mill, Dexterville, Wisconsin, 1900

Fountain and Campbell sawmill in Donald, Taylor County, Wisconsin, 1906

Fountain and Campbell lumber yard, stacking the board to season, Donald, Wisconsin, 1908

Fountain and Campbell lumber yard, Donald, Taylor County, Wisconsin, 1908

Knap, Stout and Company mill, Downsville, Dunn County, Wisconsin, 1897

Dubuque Lumber Company's mill, Dubuque, Iowa, about 1890

N.C. Foster saw and grist mill on Duck Creek, Columbia County, Wisconsin, about 1880

Men standing in front of unidentified lumber mill

Eau Claire, Wisconsin

The Dells Lumber Company, about 1920
Note: Also called the New Dells Lumber Company before it went out of operation in 1929. It was the last mill to stop running in Eau Claire.

Rafts going through the lock at the Dells Dam, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, about 1880

The Dells Paper and Pulp Company mill, about 1900

The Dells log reservoir fairly well filled with logs, about 1900

The Dells Paper and Pulp Company, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, about 1900

The New Dells Lumber Company (Dells Lumber Company), 1929
Note: This mill shut down soon after tis photo was taken.

Eddy Mill, about 1880
Note: In 1860 Arthur M. and John S. Sherman built this mill at a point called Big Eddy on the Chippewa River and the mill was nicknamed Eddy Mill.

Eau Claire Pulp

Eau Claire Lumber Company at the mouth of the Eau Claire River, about 1880
Note: The steam mill is in the foreground, the shingle mill further upstream, and the water mill beyond that.

Eau Claire Lumber Company at the mouth of the Eau Claire river, about 1890

Eau Claire Lumber Company, about 1890

Gravel Island Mill, about 1870
Note: Owned by Bussey and Taylor, later French Lumber Company and State Lumber Company.

Half Moon Lake showing the tunnel from Chippewa Falls into the lake used for transferring logs from the river to the lake which was used as a log reservoir, about 1900

Half Moon Lake Shingle and Fuel Company, about 1900

Logs on the bank of Half Moon Lake, about 1910

Logs in Half Moon Lake, 1890-1900

Rear of Ingram and Kennedy Mill, before 1881

Ingram and Kennedy mill, about 1885-1890

John H. Kaiser sawmill, about 1907

Marston planning mill, about 1870

The Marston sawmill, about 1870

Prescott, Burditt and Company sawmill, about 1875

The Northwestern Lumber Company water mill on the Eau Claire river opposite of present Boyd Park, about 1888-1900

Northwestern Lumber Company mill on the Eau Claire river, about 1900

Loading slab wood at Northwestern Lumber Company's water mill, about 1900

View of the Northwestern Lumber Company's lumber yards seen from the hill above the Omaha Railroad station, about 1900

Daniel Shaw Lumber Company, 1844
Note: Photographer: O.G. Merriman, Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Daniel Shaw Lumber Company at the outlet of Half Moon Lake, about 1905

Daniel Shaw Lumber Company, about 1870

Making up a raft at the Daniel Shaw Lumber Company sawmill, about 1880

N.C. Foster sawmill employees posing on the recently finished railroad tracks built by Mr. Foster for the mill, Fairchild, Wisconsin, about 1883

Employees of the N.C. Foster Lumber Company, Fairchild, Wisconsin, about 1883

Sawmill on the outskirts of the town, Florence, Wisconsin, about 1890-1895
Note: Photographer: Margaret Faulds, Florence, Wisconsin

Lee Hammond Lumber Company and Sawmill, Frederic, Wisconsin, 1905

C.W. Kellogg Planning Mill, Green Bay, Wisconsin, about 1870-1880

View taken from Elmore and Kelly's elevator, looking northeast, Green Bay, Wisconsin, about 1879
Note: Photographer: T.D. Bowring, DePere, Wisconsin

“The Old Mill”

Interior detail of the Cushman Sawmill on the Bark River in Hebron, Jefferson County, Wisconsin, about 1952
Note: Photographer: Lillian Ettinger, Edgerton, Wisconsin

Cushman Sawmill, Hebron, Wisconsin, about 1952

Sawmills at Hiles, Wisconsin, 1907

Sawmill in Clark County, about 1890

Unidentified sawmill from the collections of G.C. and J.M Hixon who had lumbering interest around La Crosse, Wisconsin
Note: Photographer: Harry F. Nixon, Duluth, Minn.

M & M, Marinette, Wisconsin

Roddis Plywood Corporation, Marshfield, Wisconsin, about 1900

Roddis Plywood Corporation, Marshfield, Wisconsin, about 1945-1950

McMillian Brothers' sawmill, McMillian, Marathon County, Wisconsin, about 1910

McMillian Brothers' Sawmill, McMillian, Marathon County, Wisconsin, about 1880

B.F. McMillian riding the last log to go through the mill, McMillian, Wisconsin, 1911

Foster-Latimer Lumber Company Sawmill, Mellen, Wisconsin, about 1912

Knapp, Stout and Company sawmill, Menomonie, Wisconsin, 1870

Knapp, Stout and Company Lumber Company mill interior, Menomonie, Wisconsin, 1895

Knapp, Stout and Company Lumber Mill, about 1900

Knapp, Stout and Company lumber mill, Menomonie, about 1900
Note: Photographer: Knapp

W.H. Rogers Lumber Company's sawmill, Nashville, Wisconsin, about 1900

23 111-116 Rogers Lumber company, Nashville, Wisconsin, about 1880-1900

T. Weston and Company mill, Necedah, Wisconsin, about 1870

Logs on the river before a sawmill, possibly the Necedah Lumber Company, Wisconsin, about 1890

Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Company's sulfite mill, Nekoosa, Wisconsin, about 1910

Menominee Indian Reservation sawmill, Neopit, Wisconsin, about 1920-1930

Menominee Indian Reservation sawmill, Neopit, Wisconsin, about 1950
Note: Photographer: Lillian A. Ettinger, Edgerton, Wisconsin

Holt Lumber Company has the distinction of being the longest operating sawmill in Wisconsin, Oconto, Wisconsin, about 1900

Holt Lumber Company yards, Oconto, Wisconsin, about 1900
Note: Photographer: Wishka, Oconto, Wisconsin

Holt Lumber Company, Oconto, Wisconsin, 1921

Paine Lumber Company sawmill interior, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, about 1920-1930

Atwood Lumber Company's sawmill, Park Falls, Wisconsin, about 1900-1910
Note: Photographer: Hoff

Mr. Hiram Potter's rafting plug mill, Pepin, Wisconsin, about 1880-1890

23 134-135 Peshtigo Company sawmill showing the old wooden dam, Peshtigo, Wisconsin, about 1890

Old sawmill run by power from the Red River, Phlox, Wisconsin, about 1890

An early sawmill built by John Dudley in Pt. Douglas, Minnesota, about 1885

The second sawmill of Porter and Moon, Porterville, Wisconsin, about 1880-1889

Stauer and Daubenberger sawmill built by Stauer and Company, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, about 1880-1890

John Dudley sawmill on Hermanson's levee, Prescott, Wisconsin, about 1910

Lumbering operations on the Wisconsin River, Rhinelander, Wisconsin, about 1890-1900

Brown and Robbins lumber mills and yards, Rhinelander, Wisconsin, 1894-1900

Robbins Lumber Company after the fire, Rhinelander, Wisconsin, about 1905

Rice Lake lumber company and Rice Lake Roller Mills, Rice Lake, Wisconsin, about 1905

Interior of a sawmill, Rice Lake, Wisconsin, 1929

Lumber mill operated by Edward Hahn, Ruby, Wisconsin, about 1900

Lumber mill in Schofield, Marathon County, Wisconsin, about 1900

Menominee Bay Shore Lumber Company, Soperton, Wisconsin, about 1910

Lumber mill in Stanley, Wisconsin, about 1900-1910

Interior of an unidentified sawmill in Wisconsin, about 1920
Note: Photographer: M.E. Diemer

Log landing, Stillwater, Minnesota, about 1905

John Hein sawmill, Tony, Wisconsin, 1902

Spaulding, Van Hoosear and Company sawmill in Unity, Clark County, Wisconsin, about 1890

Laun Brothers sawmill, Wausaukee, Wisconsin, 1893

Log wagons and lumber mill at the Washburn harbor, Washburn, Wisconsin, about 1870-1880

Unidentified sawmill in northern Wisconsin, about 1895

The docks in the foreground showing piles of lumber and two schooners, Frankfort, Michigan, about 1880

Lumber mills along the docks, Frankfort, Michigan, about 1884

George Burtis Sawmill on the north shore of Iron Bay, Marquette, Michigan, about 1884

R. Stephenson and Company mill, Menominee, Michigan, 1865

View of lumber yards, Menominee, Michigan
Note: Photographer: Howard Greene

Robbins Lumber Company band mill, Robbins, Michigan, about 1890

Pioneer saw mill, Minneapolis, Minnesota, about 1870

Sawmill, Kashmir, India
Note: Photographer: Publishers Photo Service

Interior of unidentified sawmill

Band saw and accessory equipment employed in the logging industry in the northwestern United States
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Stacking freshly cut boards to season

Daguerreotypes of an unidentified sawmill

Lumber company yard, about 1905