Emil Brandenburg

03/25/2016

Excellent quality photo of a logging camp taken in Irma Wisconsin. Look at the men’s expressions and that one woman’s hat!

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Susan Matteo

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03/25/2016

Looks like a Motley Crew!

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Dawn Stringer

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03/25/2016

Probably say the same thing about us all in a hundred or so years time. lol

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Susan Matteo

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03/25/2016

In a hundred years I'll just be dust in the wind! HA💀

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Lois Ost

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03/25/2016

and the clothesline, and patches above the door....excellent....

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Rachel R. Godoy

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03/25/2016

I love than languid pose on the roof!

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Lynda Germon

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03/25/2016

What a choice ???

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Bernadette Darbyshire

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03/25/2016

Precious memories

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Wendy Donoghue

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03/25/2016

I just love oldie oldie pictures somtimes you cant imagine that the things they used to wear and how life used to be back then what the cars were like and how they used to live interesting

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Dawn Stringer

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03/25/2016

If they had cars, not even one was rich back in the day.

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Wendy Donoghue

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03/25/2016

Thats true it would have been horse and cart !

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Ree Young

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03/25/2016

I'm sure there were cars...even trucks for hauling timber, though mules and carts might have been used to get the timber to a passable road. At the site for the original, it says it's a photo of Emil Brandenburg at his brother's logging camp, and that Emil was born in 1897. No one there is a little kid, so it had to be around 1920 or so. The first logging trucks came into regular use around 1917, after WWI. (My dad was already working for Mack Trucks by then.)

I wonder if any of these guys had been in the war?

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Dean White

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03/25/2016

I realize the ground slopes, but the size difference between the guy at far left and the shorter female in the center is still EXTREME.

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Anna Gardner

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03/25/2016

I see what you mean about the size differences. Those loggers were big strapping manly men.

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Stuart Paterson

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03/25/2016

He's also nearer the camera. Big lad but a touch of forced perspective methinks :-)

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Linda Stewart

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03/25/2016

They all look pretty happy ..

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Nilda Vasquez Kison

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03/25/2016

Simple life but happy and satisfied.

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Neal Beringer

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03/25/2016

They were tough guys for sure

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Carol Anne Giles

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03/25/2016

Can you imagine how long it took to use this saw and cut thru that tree!!!!

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Donna Appleby

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03/25/2016

Wow!! That must have been so old...

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Ahti Pelttari

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03/25/2016

Nice, but I always feel sad seeing those giants cut down...

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Rosa Anderson

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03/25/2016

Amazing!

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Bill Hudson

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03/25/2016

Just love these old pictures. Could you imagine the stories of what they were like back then.

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Dawn Stringer

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03/25/2016

when people look at us in another hundred or so years probably say the same thing about how we dressed and what we did.

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Bill Hudson

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03/25/2016

Ain't that the truth. Funny thing is that this is one of those continuous situations. Which reapts itself over and over again. Lol 😅 😅

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Shannon Leana Simmons

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03/25/2016

Cool

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Linda Fair

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03/25/2016

Memories of back in Michigan-Up

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Patrick A Flynn

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03/25/2016

I would live there...

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Rachael Rawson

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03/25/2016

Love the photo, and several very handsome men there! I love her hat and the guy's expressions! A photo treasure!

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Val Thomas

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03/25/2016

What cars not even a horse in shot!

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Anna Gardner

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03/25/2016

Her hat looks to be inside out.

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Dawn Stringer

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03/25/2016

Real men...

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Val Thomas

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03/25/2016

Even tougher ladies to keep them guys in order!

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Leslie Bacon

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03/25/2016

these could be my Grand Parents

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Amy Babinski

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03/25/2016

kool

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Judy Lindeman Fullerton

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03/25/2016

My husband's family "camping"....

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Trudie Cruey

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03/25/2016

I know who did the cooking

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Leonor Balderrama

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03/25/2016

GREAT PIC!!!

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Val Thomas

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03/25/2016

Or Shankies pony as we say in Wales,U.K. meaning on foot!

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Barbara Hunter

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03/25/2016

They built America.

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Sara Simon

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03/25/2016

The Forest History Center in Grand Rapids, MN has a living history logging camp set in the year 1900. Very fun to visit. Also when you are up there check out The Lost Forty, a parcel of land that was missed in the early logging days that still has virgin pine... they are HUGE!

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Patricia Devine

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03/25/2016

Wow. Very interesting

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Monty Arnold

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03/25/2016

What the hell were the guys thinking in the 50s? Those western movies and TV shows......didn't look anything like this place!!!😎

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Wendy Donoghue

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03/25/2016

Intresting but a doubt me going up there I live in Barnsley South Yorkshire England :-) I,d love to go and look round but its a long way :-)

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Lorraine Bennett

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03/25/2016

Having your picture taken was a big deal.

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Kathy Van Tassell

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03/25/2016

Wonder what good the hat is doing her sittin on top of her head, looks like a nest

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Lynn Clarkson

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03/25/2016

And nobody was overweight!!

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Lee An Forester Train

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03/25/2016

Those poor women!!

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Beatriz Misenta

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03/25/2016

Love i!t

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R Joseph Vignati

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03/25/2016

Love the 2 Ladies , One with a Top Knot and one with Giant Straw !!!!!!!!!!

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Bobbie Barnett

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03/25/2016

Cool picture. .not one person in this photo is even slightly over weight. Must be all down to hard work and no processed food.

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Annie Sweeney

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03/25/2016

halloween

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Jo Vaughn-Hutson

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03/25/2016

You can see, log cabins were not all that tall..

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Deborah Mobberly

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03/25/2016

Love the old pictures.

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Rose Holler

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03/25/2016

look at that guy on the roof! oh yeh, its break time! loll

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Avay York Evans

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03/25/2016

Life was so hard back then but they didn't even know it, it was LIFE for them and it was a good one*~

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Cathi Zink

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03/25/2016

Look at the clothes ,back them you wore them out .

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Jennifer Anderson

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03/25/2016

hard times, no complaining, hard work and getting on with it... Such strong people who made the best of what they had... x

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Marian Rohloff

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03/25/2016

Must have been a Sunday. Everyone is dressed up and clean.

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Lena Gargano-Reddy

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03/25/2016

This is so interesting what I find unusual is the women who is wearing the hat is also wearing a men's tie

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Whimsical Robyn

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03/25/2016

Bunch of handsome fella's ❤️

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Mary Kesner

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03/25/2016

I'll bet no one made fun of her hat back then!!!

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Guadalupe Cuenca Moreno

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03/25/2016

LOS BEBERLY RICOS ............SOY LATINOAMERICANA jajajajajajajajaja

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Marina Newman

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03/25/2016

Such an amazing capture.

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Lynn Rector Chrystall

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03/25/2016

Love this photo🌿💕🍃

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Neetzee Berridge

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03/25/2016

Jerry Dubman....isn't that you, in the left?

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Neetzee Berridge

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Neetzee Berridge

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Mary Mary Hodnett

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03/25/2016

All those men and two women !! Got me wondering what life was like for them .lol

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Marilyn Short Dauw

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03/25/2016

so glad to be living in modern times

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Zee Brett Buchan

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03/25/2016

I wish I belong on that pix

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Angie Swinger

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03/25/2016

Cool hat. A hat in those days were used as baskets to collect fruit, berries, veggies and eggs, plus it kept the hot sun from boiling your brains out. LOL. The women wears scarves for various reasons, maybe tie around goats neck to bring in to milk, tie your toddlers hand to yours so he don't wander off. Wet and use as a cloth to cool your brow and wash your sweaty face. And many more uses. it looks like a good lumber yard with 2 men and their wives and a group of lumberyard workers. They lived a hard life, but a good life.

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Linda Virtue

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03/26/2016

I'm thinking that with all those men and two women, they were not wives.

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Angie Swinger

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03/26/2016

With a name like Virtue, who knows what you think. I know people live in the hills here and most there kinfolk men come to help with what needs doing.

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