Story of a raftsman's life on the Wisconsin River: Putting in a yankee
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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): "If you happened to run on a sand bar, here is a way we had of working our way loose or running over that sand bar, by shifting this raft around so that one end of it would get in the water. We used this system like this. In order to do what we used what we called a "Yankee" which is a log-like piece, a square piece. That runs down something like this. The "Yankee" swings that raft down into deep water. In case you put the "Yankee" down in front, it brings the raft to a sudden stop, like this and has a tendency to bring that end the other way."
- 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
- Standardized Rights Statement
- 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 in a yankee. 1887-1899. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/mcml/id/177. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- (1887-1899) Story of a raftsman's life on the Wisconsin River: Putting in a yankee. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/mcml/id/177
- MLA citation style
- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/mcml/id/177>.