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Lumber crew eating outdoors, ca. 1900. Photograph by A.A. Swan.
Lumber milling equipment, St. Paul branch of the Weyerhaeuser Company, ca. 1935.
Photograph of a small congregation of lumberjacks assembled inside a bunkhouse to hear sky pilot Frank Higgins preach, c.1910.
Lumberjacks rolling a log. Oil-on-board painting by an anonymous artist, ca. 1900.
Lumberjacks eating in lumber camp dining hall, ca. 1916.
Employees of Swedish immigrant John Ogren at his lumber camp near Mora, on the Snake River, ca. 1890.
Lumberjacks fell a white pine, the “Monarch of the Forest,” for the Virginia and Rainy Lake Company, ca. 1928.
Lumberjacks in lumber camp, Rainy Lake & Virginia Lumber Company, ca. 1910.
Lunch in the Westbrook fire hall during Westbrook Hospital Days, 1986.
Lunch time at Hallie Q. Brown House nursery school, St. Paul, ca. 1940.