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Photograph showing geologists Steig and Hinn, along with some of the lumbermen at camp 41 of the Foster Latimer Lumber Company. It appears as though Steig is at far left and Hinn is third from right,…

Spoken by Peter H. Plante, National Folk Festival, Chicago, May 27, 1937.

Lumberjack Recitation of poem and conversation about log skidding. He places contest on Black River.

Photograph showing a jammer loading logs for transport.

Photograph of a jammer being loaded with logs. A carload can be loaded in 10 - 15 minutes.

Lumberjack Mr. De Noyer is blind and has only one arm. All his life he has been a lumber camp entertainer.

Lumberjack Mr. Brown learned this song when he was a small boy. He thinks he learned it in the lumber camps.

Lumberjack Mr. Brown learned this song in the lumber camps as a boy. The tune is a stock lumberjack tune (re: Little brown bulls).

Irish brogue Mr. Walker used to sing this song in the lumber camps. He has been working in the camps the most of his life.

Played on the lumber-camp dinner horn, with spoken introduction, by Sven “Shantyman” Svenson (Otto Rindlisbacher, of the Wisconsin Lumberjacks), National Folk Festival, Chicago, May 27, 1937.

Lumberjack This song was written by Taplin at about age 40 (1894). Mr. Taplin has fine pictures of lumber camp crews (on location) in the event that one would wish to copy them.

Interview and musical performance by musician Ray Calkins, formerly of the Wisconsin Lumberjacks group, recorded at his home in Chetek, Wisconsin. Song titles include When you and I were young, Maggie…

A recitative of the type which was sometimes used in lumber camp entertainment. Biog: Former lumberjack. Taught school when the German settlers first came after the Civil War. There is a series of Soc…

Irish brogue - Lumberjack Mr. Bowlen thinks he is the only man in Wisconsin who knows this song. He sang it in the lumber camps. He learned it in the woods, from a red-haired Irishman Sandy - when Bow…

Lumberjack instrument Norwegian melody played on a Viking cello. Mrs. Rindlisbacher calls it a Viking cello because Knute Reindahl of Madison, who made one, called it that. Its origin is the lumber ca…