Logs for paper mills on the Fox River, 1901-1910. The paper industry has been an important part of Wisconsin’s economy since the 1870s. Manufacturing paper from wood pulp requires lots of trees, but it also requires lots of water. The natural advantages of the Fox River made the Fox Valley cities of Appleton, Kaukauna, Neenah and Menasha some of the largest paper producers in the Midwest. via: Lawrence University Archives
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Logs for paper mills on the Fox River, 1901-1910.

The paper industry has been an important part of Wisconsin’s economy since the 1870s. Manufacturing paper from wood pulp requires lots of trees, but it also requires lots of water. The natural advantages of the Fox River made the Fox Valley cities of Appleton, Kaukauna, Neenah and Menasha some of the largest paper producers in the Midwest.

via: Lawrence University Archives

Source: digitalmedia.lawrence.edu

“Typical operations on the Valley Line,” early 20th century, Wisconsin. Workers pose for the camera while loading logs onto a flatbed car on the Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul rail line (also known as the Milwaukee Road). via: Marathon County Historical Society by way of Central Wisconsin Digitization Project see more: Interested in Wisconsin lumberjacks and the logging industry? Find out more by searching the Wisconsin Heritage Online portal for “loggers” or “logging.”
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“Typical operations on the Valley Line,” early 20th century, Wisconsin.

Workers pose for the camera while loading logs onto a flatbed car on the Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul rail line (also known as the Milwaukee Road).

via: Marathon County Historical Society by way of Central Wisconsin Digitization Project

see more: Interested in Wisconsin lumberjacks and the logging industry? Find out more by searching the Wisconsin Heritage Online portal for “loggers” or “logging.”

Listen: "Little Brown Bulls" as sung by Robert Walker, Crandon, Wisconsin, 1941.

This folk ballad describes a contest in a northwoods Wisconsin logging camp between a pair of “big spotted steers” and two “little brown bulls” to determine which team could haul or “skid” the most timber in a single day. The Wisconsin Folksong Collection includes a dozen recordings of this song as sung by former lumberjacks; each singer places the event in a different location. In Walker’s version, the contest takes place in a logging camp on the Wolf River.

via: Wisconsin Folksong Collection 1937-1946, Mills Music Library by way of University of Wisconsin Digital Collections

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