Title: Malcolm Leviatt Rosholt Collected Photographs
Inclusive Dates: 1880-1925, 1965

Creator:

• Rosholt, Malcolm Leviatt, 1907-

Call Number: Stevens Point Mss R; PH 3544; PH 3567

Quantity: 0.4 cubic feet (1 archives box); plus additions of 183 photographs (2 archives boxes and 3 folders)

Repository:

Housed at the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections and the Nelis R. Kampenga University Archives & Area Research Center, Learning Resources Center, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections.

Archival Locations:

UW-Stevens Point Library / Stevens Point Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

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

Abstract:

Reproductions of photographs collected and captioned by Malcolm Rosholt, Rosholt, Wisconsin; including photographs of logging operations taken circa 1890-circa 1912 in Marathon, Portage, and other nearby Wisconsin counties; aerial views of towns and other scenes taken in 1965 in Waupaca and Portage counties; portrait photographs of mayors of Stevens Point, Wisconsin, including Leon Pasternachi, Byron B. Parks, and Thomas Henry Hanna; and images of Wausau, 1909-1912.

Note:

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Language: English

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Stevens Point Mss R includes reproductions of photographs collected and captioned by Malcolm Rosholt, Rosholt, Wisconsin; including 159 photographs of logging operations taken circa 1890-circa 1912 in Marathon, Portage, and other nearby Wisconsin counties; 15 aerial views of towns and other scenes taken in 1965 in Waupaca and Portage counties; and 3 portrait photographs of mayors of Stevens Point, Wisconsin, including Leon Pasternachi, Byron B. Parks, and Thomas Henry Hanna.

PH 3544 includes photographs of Wausau and of lumber operations in Marathon County, 1909-1912. The images of Wausau include baseball teams, a milkman, railroad crews, the Marathon County Court House, and the Wausau Paper Mill in Brokaw. The lumbering images show crews, equipment, sawmills, blacksmiths, and the Wausau Foundry and Machine Works.

PH 3567 includes images which duplicate some of the photographs at Stevens Point. They document logging and sawmill operations in north central Wisconsin including the counties of Forest, Langlade, Oneida, Sawyer, Shawano, Marathon, Portage, and Waupaca, circa 1880-1925. Included are images of lumber camps, log transportation, sawmills, loggers, log camp cooks, and Native Americans.

Access Restrictions

COLLECTION STORED AT ARC: Collection may be available for transfer through the Area Research Center (ARC) Network, consult Reading Room Staff.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Malcolm Rosholt, Rosholt, Wisconsin, 1971 and 1974. Accession Number: M71-291, M74-097

Stevens Point Mss R Box   1	Logging operations, circa 1890-circa 1912
Box   1	Aerial views of towns and other scenes in Waupaca and Portage Counties, 1965
Box   1	Portrait photographs of mayors of Stevens Point, Wisconsin Note: Includes Leon Pasternachi, Byron B. Parks, and Thomas Henry Hanna.
PH 3544	Set A
Box   1 Folder   1	Cook and cookee, Weeks Camp No. 3, logging camp of John Week Lumber Co., probably upper Rib River, circa 1910
Box   1 Folder   2	Loading logs with gasoline-powered jammer, Marathon County
Box   1 Folder   3	Early threshing machine, steam engine and separator, probably Marathon County
Box   1 Folder   4	Decking logs on landing with single pole, or “gin' pole” jammer, using team of horses on cross-haul, probably Marathon County
Box   1 Folder   5	Decking crew on landing, probably Marathon County, 1912 February 24
Box   1 Folder   6	Cook and cookee, probably Marathon County, 9:20 a.m., circa 1910
Box   1 Folder   7	Model-T Ford, probably Marathon County
Box   1 Folder   8	Engine 245 near roundhouse, probably Wausau, circa 1910
Box   1 Folder   9	Portable jammer using cantilever device, probably Marathon County, circa 1910
Box   1 Folder   10	Men chopping rotten logs used for firewood Note: Wood pile in rear probably cord wood for steam engines.
Box   1 Folder   11	Wausau scene, circa 1910 Note: Men standing on New City Dray Line truck loaded with furniture possibly being unloaded from train.
Box   1 Folder   12	Winch powered by steam, probably Wausau, circa 1910
Box   1 Folder   13	Road-making equipment being unloaded from train, probably at Wausau, 1910 Note: Water sprinkler is at left.
Box   1 Folder   14	Gin-pole jammer, using horse team on cross haul, probably in Marathon County Note: Top-loader stand on log; two men holding chains often called “pup-hookers” since they hooked the “pups” into the ends of the log to be lifted up. Man in center holding ruler is scaler. Cross-haul teamster at extreme left.
Box   1 Folder   15	Swendson Mill, Echo, Wisconsin Note: Man at left is sawyer, at right is a carriage rider.
Box   1 Folder   16	Laut Bros. Sawmill, probably Marathon County Note: Logs at right appear to be peeled. Carriage at left and edger at right. Pit in center is where sawyer stood.
Box   1 Folder   17	Exterior of Laut Bros. mill Note: Men stand on “bull side.”
Box   1 Folder   18	Bird's-eye view of Barker's Landing, 1912 Note: At right on flat car appears to be portable jammer using cantilever principle.
Box   1 Folder   19	R.E. Cavitts Mill, near Wausau, circa 1910
Box   1 Folder   20	R.E. Cavitts Sawmill Note: Mill was apparently sawing railway ties on right.
Box   1 Folder   21	Wausau Foundry and Machine Works, circa 1910
Box   1 Folder   22	Threshing rig, French and Wolf 280 Acre Farm, probably Marathon County, circa 1910
Box   1 Folder   23	The Star Blacksmiths, probably Marathon County, circa 1910
Box   1 Folder   24	R.E. Gavitts Mill, Callon, Marathon County Note: Callon was sawmill community located on the Eau Claire River at the present junction of Highway 29 and Country Trunk Highway J, east of Wausau.
Box   1 Folder   25	Log rollways at Rib River, decking crew on landing, 1910 March 1 Note: This was probably a crew for John Week Lumber Co. of Stevens Point which logged on the upper Rib in the first decade of the 20th Century. Logs on top of pile appear to be pine but logs in foreground are pealed and may be hardwood or hemlock. Hemlock bark was used for tanning. Photograph by A. Weiland.
Box   1 Folder   26	Logging crew with rollways and jammer, Rib River Station, 1910 March 1 Note: Crew is decking with single pole jammer. Cross bar on pole may be for guide wires. This may be John Week Lumber Co. crew.
Box   1 Folder   27	Log landing probably Marathon County, circa 1910 Note: Jammer is called “swing-boom jammer.”
Box   1 Folder   28	Loading crew using steam jammer Note: Close-up of “pup-hook” seen above hand of “hooker” at right.
Box   1 Folder   29	Crew in woods, probably Marathon County, circa 1910 Note: Man holding rule is probably one of the sawyers. Tool at end of log on the left is “Skidding tong.” Horses were hitched to tong by chain and the log “skidded” out to a road or landing. Photo was taken probably because of extraordinary size of log.
Box   1 Folder   30	Constructing curbs on Wausau street, circa 1910 Note: Men at right mix cement.
Box   1 Folder   31	Using threshing machine engine to do custom sawing
Box   1 Folder   32	Using “go-devil” to skid logs out to road or landing, probably Marathon County, circa 1910
Box   1 Folder   33	A-Frame jammer, portable type, Marathon County, developed probably 1912
Box   1 Folder   34	Crew cutting kitchen firewood for winter supply, using home-made contraption at left to power the saw, probably Marathon County, circa 1910
Box   1 Folder   35	Yoke of oxen and cross-haul team, probably Marathon County, circa 1910 Note: This type of jammer was one of the most common in woods.
	Set B
Box   2 Folder   1	Milkman for City Dairy, Wausau, Wisconsin
Box   2 Folder   2	Post Office, Wausau, Wisconsin / Photographer: John F. Schreiber
Box   2 Folder   3	“Our Last Picnic of the Season,” probably Wausau, Wisconsin, 1909 September 19
Box   2 Folder   4	Men playing cards in sleeping shanty Note: Man in center holds straight flush.
Box   2 Folder   5	A member of Wausau Cubs baseball team
Box   2 Folder   6	People standing in front of a two-story log structure Note: The poor state of repair of the building suggests temporary use only.
Box   2 Folder   7	Man seated in wagon with dog Note: Sign on buckboard: Wartman & Belter, phone 1087, Wausau.
Box   2 Folder   8	Men standing near tree that has been cut down Note: Hardwood in background and stumps suggest this white pine was one of last trees to be cut. Probably measures four feet on the stump, a huge tree in Wisconsin, more than 100 years old.
Box   2 Folder   9	“Falls scene on the Wisconsin River” Note: Streetcar on bridge. Photographer: John F. Schreiber.
Box   2 Folder   10	Two men standing in office, possibly Wausau, Wisconsin, 1912
Box   2 Folder   11	Ferry believed to have been used on Wisconsin River north of Wausau, Wisconsin Note: Stone in wagon may be from nearby quarry. Driver holds some sort of lever attached to a cable which is pulling ferry across the river.
Box   2 Folder   12	Fair time, Wausau, Wisconsin
Box   2 Folder   13	Wausau Paper Mill, Brokaw, Wisconsin, north of Wausau
Box   2 Folder   14	Section crew, probably on Chicago and North Western Railroad, at Eland Junction, Shawano County Note: Velocipede at right was often referred to as a “pede” or handcar.
Box   2 Folder   15	Loading railway ties, probably near Wausau, Chicago and North Western Railroad
Box   2 Folder   16	Wausau baseball team, the Lumberjacks, “City Champions,” 1911 Note: Photographer: John F. Schreiber.
Box   2 Folder   17	Crew on Rosholt spur of Chicago and North Western at Eland Junction Note: Left to right: Ole Haroldson, temporary fireman, Jack McIver, brakeman, Peter Schwin, temporary engineer, Larry Tormey?, conductor, and Reynolds.
Box   2 Folder   18	Loading hemlock bark that has been cut in four-foot lengths
Box   2 Folder   19	McLaughlin? & Remmel Bros., Saloon, Wausau
Box   2 Folder   20	Winch on cable running into sewer, probably Wausau
Box   2 Folder   21	Family reunion, probably Wausau
Box   2 Folder   22	Marathon County Court House, 3rd Street, Wausau Note: It has since been demolished. Photographer: John F. Schreiber.
Box   2 Folder   23	River drivers having hot lunch on bank of river, probably the Trap or Rib Note: A batteau, a boat used for moving crews around to keep log drive in motion and keep logs from “sacking” or becoming “Sandbagged” on bars or banks, is beached on bank.
PH 3567 Folder   1-3	Logging and sawmill operations in north central Wisconsin, circa 1880-1925