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Lumber Rafting at Grand Rapids, Wisconsin #2
Several companies were located on islands near the rapids. They used small dams between...
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Lumber Rafting at Grand Rapids, Wisconsin #4
At the downstream end of Belle Island (Neeves Island) was a saw mill. Note the dam between...
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Putting in a yankee
[If you happened to run on a sand bar, here is a way we had of working our way loose or running...
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Witching up
Binding planks parallel with the first planks underneath were fastened onto the grubs shown...
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Taking it easy. Leaving the Dells.
Putting down a spring pole - a hard one
[Just as soon as the lumber was all rafted down, and the crews all got down, we got ready...
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Running the Kilbourne dam seen from shore
When we got down to Kilbourn then we had a Dells to run; which is a narrow, tortuous course...
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Running the Kilbourne dam on board the raft
[Shooting the Kilbourn Dam Rapids, with Mr. Bennett, photographer, as passenger. Name of pilot...
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Muscular vigor in repose
Lumber Rafting at Grand Rapids, Wisconsin #1
The main rapids are at the top of the image. One raft is entering the lower rapids,...
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