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Photos from Michigan's History

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Axe cutting and Rollways

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Big Wheels

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Blacksmiths and buildings

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Buildings and lumber camps.

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Buildings and camps

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Business, money, stores.

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Modern images and pictures of lumberjack camps.

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Gates, Dams, and Horse sleds with lumber

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Horse sleds and lumber

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Horse sleds and lumber

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Bunk houses, Early hydrolic equipment, and the interior of some sawmills.

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Using the railroad to transport logs.

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Housing in the Lumberjack Camps

1890
Inside of bunkhouse.

1890
Inside of bunkhouse on Sunday.

1930
Inside of bunkhouse. Shoes and gloves drying by stove.

Hydrolic Equipment from the 1960's

circa 1960
Super 10 Cary lift with swivel clam.

circa 1960
Log pilers using a John Deere drag loader. Near Houghton Lake, MI.

circa 1960
Pettibone Carry-Lift.

Inside of Saw Mills

circa 1890
Photograph of a sawmill

circa 1940
Photograph of the Ford Motor Company Lumber Mill. Munising, MI.

circa 1940
Photograph of loggers sawing logs into lumbers

1896
Photograph of loggers sawing logs into lumber. Boyne City, MI.

The pictures above show images of Michigans lumbering industry in the 1890's through the 1920's. Millions of trees were cut and shipped to markets through out the world.

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Log Marks and log piles.

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Log salvage, log slides, and maps

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Mess Halls

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Mess Halls

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Oxen teams and river scenes.

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Camp pictures.

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Camps
and general pictures.

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Ice sprinklers and sawmills.

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Saw crews and shipping

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Storage pens and tools.

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