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Lumber Collection

Background imageLumber Collection: Logging in Wisconsin, 1800s

Logging in Wisconsin, 1800s
Hauling logs with a horse-drawn sledge in northern Wisconsin, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageLumber Collection: BUSN2A-00110

BUSN2A-00110
Woodsman dancing to a fiddle in a logging camp at night, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageLumber Collection: Colonial sawmill, Virginia, 1600s

Colonial sawmill, Virginia, 1600s
Water-powered sawmill used in Jamestown Colony before 1650. Hand-colored woodcut from " Virginia Truly Valued" by Edward Williams, 1650

Background imageLumber Collection: BUSN2A-00095

BUSN2A-00095
Loggers with an ordinary haul on an ox-drawn sledge, Minnesota, 1890s. Hand-colored halftone of a 19th-century photograph

Background imageLumber Collection: Chicago lumber wharves, 1880s

Chicago lumber wharves, 1880s
Lumber district of Chicago, viewed from the West Side Waterworks, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageLumber Collection: Lumberjacks having dinner, 1800s

Lumberjacks having dinner, 1800s
Dinner in a logging camp in the Northwest, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageLumber Collection: Sawmills in Maine, 1850s

Sawmills in Maine, 1850s
Timber fed into sawmills on the Penobscot River at Old Town, Maine, 1850s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageLumber Collection: BUSN2A-00099

BUSN2A-00099
Lumbermen clearing a log-jam on a river, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageLumber Collection: BUSN2A-00156

BUSN2A-00156
A big load of logs on a skidder in Michigan, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a 19th-century photograph

Background imageLumber Collection: Iroquois with his ox-drawn timber cargo

Iroquois with his ox-drawn timber cargo
Iroquois man transporting cut timber by ox-drawn sledge, 1890s. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageLumber Collection: Timber ready to be shipped on the St Lawrence, 1850s

Timber ready to be shipped on the St Lawrence, 1850s
Timber depot on the St Lawrence River near Quebec City, 1850s. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageLumber Collection: BUSN2A-00178

BUSN2A-00178
Loading lumber onto ships in Puget Sound, Washington State, 1880s. Hand-colored lithograph of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageLumber Collection: BUSN2A-00063

BUSN2A-00063
Early logging in the White Mountains of Maine or New Hampshire. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageLumber Collection: EVRV2A-00214

EVRV2A-00214
Letter from Bostons Committee of Correspondence urging supplies be withheld from British troops, 1774. Woodcut reproduction with a watercolor wash


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