Title: Logging Photographs by H.C. Reed
Inclusive Dates: 1887-1900

Creator:

• Reed, H. C.

Call Number: PH 830

Quantity: 28 photographs (1 archives box)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Photographs by H.C. Reed of Rice Lake, Wisconsin, depicting sawmill operations, and related matters in the vicinity of Rice Lake and Long Lakes, Barron and Chippewa counties, Wisconsin, 1887-1900. Images show the Rice Lake Lumber Company office, hauling, camp grounds, shoeing an ox, logs at the sawmill, sawn lumber, and a Heron rookery at Long Lake. Also present is a reproduction of a photograph of lumberman Andrew Tainter.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ph00830

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Acquisition Information

Placed on deposit by the Rice Lake Public Library, Rice Lake, Wisconsin.

PH 830 Item   1	“Office of Rice Lake Lumber Co.,” 1890s
Item   2	“A 'Landing' - Lake Ice 2 or 3 Ft Thick” (man standing on logs)
Item   3	“Always a Down Hill Haul to Landing (Iced Track Grooves are Spread with Straw in Spots Deemed Too Steep)” (men with a horse-drawn haul of logs)
Item   4	“Hot from the Cook-Shanty” (lunch at lumber camp)
Item   5	“2 Ox Power Jammer at Work”
Item   6	Four horses pulling a haul of logs
Item   7	Oxen in harness with a haul of logs, 1887
Item   8	“Last Load” (horse-drawn haul of logs), 1905
Item   9	“Sunday” (workers in front of lumber camp)
Item   10	Workers with a haul of logs
Item   11	“A Knapp, Stout & Co. Company Crew. Jas. Bracklin, Logging Supt. (In Fur Coat), last picture,” circa 1900 Note: WHi Image ID: 8653
Item   12	Downhill haul of logs on road, pulled by four horses
Item   13	“Rice Lake Lumber Company Base Camp - Long Lake Dam. Hardwood Mill in Foreground”
Item   14	“Sluicing Logs, c. 1905 - Start of Last Leg of Journey to the Saw Mill - 20 Miles via River Below Long Lake Dam. M.B. Noble stack and pilot house on left,” circa 1905
Item   15	“Above Long Lake Dam”
Item   16	“Wanigan in Foreground,” driving crew at Hardwood Mill, Long Lake
Item   17	“Another Ox Also Patient (Of Necessity)” (man shoeing an ox)
Item   18	Rice Lake Lumber Co., Rice Lake plant, circa 1900
Item   19	“Twin Screw (nofoolin') tow boat” (the N.B. Noble on Long Lake)
Item   20	Winter logging on Rice Lake - lake full of logs with mill in background
Item   21	Lumber piled on train cars in yard
Item   22	Piles of lumber, mill in background
Item   23a	Piles of lumber
Item   23b	Train with lumber
Item   24	“More Results of Winter's Logging” (lake full of logs)
Item   25	“Blue Heron Rookery - Long Lake”
Item   26	“Early Step in Modernization, 'Cat' Rolls Horse & Ox for Hauling Job. This bark-mark may be a clue to date and name of this later day operation” (trainload of logs)
Item   27	Andrew Tainter