Story of a raftsman's life on the Wisconsin River: Putting down a spring pole - a hard one
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- Created Date
- 1887-1899
- Description
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
- EngravingsPhotographs
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- No Copyright - In the United States:The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
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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>.