Story of a raftsman's life on the Wisconsin River: Putting down a spring pole - a hard one

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1887-1899
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From a booklet of 37 engravings based on a series of photographs taken by H.H. Bennett in 1886 of a group of raftsmen from the Grand Rapids (Wisconsin Rapids) area during their journey down the Wisconsin River. From T. A. Taylor, 100 Years of Pictorial and Descriptive History of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin (1934-1940): "Just as soon as the lumber was all rafted down, and the crews all got down, we got ready to take the rafts down and put the spring poles on.... They have spring poles that work like this. That is the reason it works faster, because the front of the crib has been lifted so as to allow the raft to work that way. In order to get the spring pole in we have to put a log about ten inches wide right at the inside here on the front of the crib."

Partner
Recollection Wisconsin
Contributing Institution
McMillan Memorial Library
Collection
Lumber Rafting
Publisher
Portland, Maine: Chisholm Bros
Subjects
Log rafts
Lumber industry
Rivers
Bennett, Henry Hamilton, 1843-1908
Wisconsin Dells
Wisconsin River
Arpin family
Location
Columbia County, Wisconsin
Type
image
Format
Engravings
Photographs
URL
http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/mcml/id/171
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Story of a raftsman's life on the Wisconsin River: Putting down a spring pole - a hard one. 1887-1899. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/mcml/id/171. (Accessed April 20, 2024.)
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(1887-1899) Story of a raftsman's life on the Wisconsin River: Putting down a spring pole - a hard one. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/mcml/id/171
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Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/mcml/id/171>.
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