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An Indian cabin
A white man stands on a path facing away from the camera looking at a wooden cabin standing in the background. Some trees grow nearby.
An Indian burial place
Two horses graze among overgrown grasses of a cemetery with some tombstones and wooden graves around. A fence is on the right and a tree grows on the left.
Entering the "Soo" canal on the way from Lake Superior to market
A white man stands on a canal lock entrance watching an incoming ship as it approaches the lock.
Ringing the school bell
A white boy stands by a door of a classroom pulling a rope. A girl stands in near him resting against the doorframe.
The scene of a forest fire tragedy
A white man stands in front of a jumble of wooden boxes and scraps of wood. Train tracks cross the scene and a large pile of logs are in the background.
His first home in the wilderness, now a henhouse
A white man hammers a doorframe of a wooden house.
A lumber industry center
Two white men stand on a wooden platform with train tracks on them. One of them is leading a cart on the tracks. A third white man stands on a lower platform stacking lumber. Other stacks of lumber are in the middle ground and across the river. Two…
A backdoor confab
A white woman stands at the back entrance of a house with a child standing next to her. A man holding the reins of a house stands on the ground looking up at her. A dog stands near the horse and a large wooden basin rests against the side of the…
The well
A white woman stands in front of a wooden well with a long stick. A dog stands next to the well. A wagon, clothes drying on a clothesline, and a house are in the middle ground. A child stands in the door of the house.
The kite-flyers
Two white boys setting up a kite while two other boys look on. A black dog stands by the boys and the kite. A spire of a church and other city buildings are visible in the middle ground with more houses in a valley in the background.
A typical freighter
A view of a freighter on a river in the middle ground. A part of a ship is visible on the left in the foreground and city buildings are visible on the far shore in the background.
Logs
A view of a river filled with logs. A city is visible in the background on the far shore.
Guiding logs to the sawmill
Two white men stand on a wooden platform over a river with many logs around. One holds a long pole and is guiding a log. The other man stands holding onto a tree trunk which serves as a column with one hand and a chain in the other. A large ship is…
On the deck of a sailing vessel
Two white men stand and one man sits on a deck of a ship. Ropes are scattered about the deck, two masts in front are lowered and one is raised on the left.
On the way to town
A white man sits on top of a wagon loaded with lumber handling the reins to two horses pulling the wagon. A dirt road extends into the side with a house visible in the background.