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Studio portrait of a lumberjack, Black River Falls, Wisconsin.
This portrait of an unidentified young logger made it to #9 in our list of most popular posts of 2012. Photo by Charles Van Schaick.
via: Wisconsin Historical Images WHi-46149, Wisconsin Historical Society
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Studio portrait of a lumberjack, Black River Falls, Wisconsin.

This portrait of an unidentified young logger made it to #9 in our list of most popular posts of 2012. Photo by Charles Van Schaick.

via: Wisconsin Historical Images WHi-46149, Wisconsin Historical Society

Source: wisconsinhistory.org

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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.”
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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.”

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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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Studio portrait of a young lumberjack, Black River Falls, Wisconsin.
This unidentified logger holds a peavey—the iconic tool of the lumberjack, used to grab, roll and otherwise move a log. Photo by Charles van Schaick.
via: Wisconsin Historical Images WHi-46149, Wisconsin Historical Society.
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Studio portrait of a young lumberjack, Black River Falls, Wisconsin.

This unidentified logger holds a peavey—the iconic tool of the lumberjack, used to grab, roll and otherwise move a log. Photo by Charles van Schaick.

via: Wisconsin Historical Images WHi-46149, Wisconsin Historical Society.

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Laying ties for logging railroad in Lincoln County, Wisconsin, ca. 1900-1920.
The man third from left poses with his shovel as if it were a guitar or banjo.
via: T. B. Scott Library, Merrill, Wisconsin, by way of Central Wisconsin Digitization Project
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Laying ties for logging railroad in Lincoln County, Wisconsin, ca. 1900-1920.

The man third from left poses with his shovel as if it were a guitar or banjo.

via: T. B. Scott Library, Merrill, Wisconsin, by way of Central Wisconsin Digitization Project

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Load of logs at an Eau Pleine River Basin logging camp, Marathon County, Wisconsin.
Ten loggers pose at the top of this unusually tall load of logs harvested in north-central Wisconsin, about 1890 or earlier.
via: 100 Years of Pictorial and Descriptive History of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, McMillan Memorial Library
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Load of logs at an Eau Pleine River Basin logging camp, Marathon County, Wisconsin.

Ten loggers pose at the top of this unusually tall load of logs harvested in north-central Wisconsin, about 1890 or earlier.

via: 100 Years of Pictorial and Descriptive History of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, McMillan Memorial Library

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