Emil Brandenburg

Ancient Faces

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

Mar 25, 2016 ·

Susan Matteo

Looks like a Motley Crew!

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Dawn Stringer

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

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Susan Matteo

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

Mar 25, 2016 on

Lois Ost

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

Mar 25, 2016 on

Rachel R. Godoy

I love than languid pose on the roof!

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Lynda Germon

What a choice ???

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Bernadette Darbyshire

Precious memories

Mar 25, 2016 on

Wendy Donoghue

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

Mar 25, 2016 on

Dawn Stringer

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

Mar 25, 2016 on

Wendy Donoghue

Thats true it would have been horse and cart !

Mar 25, 2016 on

Ree Young

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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?

Mar 25, 2016 on

Dean White

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.

Mar 25, 2016 on

Anna Gardner

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

Mar 25, 2016 on

Stuart Paterson

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

Mar 25, 2016 on

Linda Stewart

They all look pretty happy ..

Mar 25, 2016 on

Nilda Vasquez Kison

Simple life but happy and satisfied.

Mar 25, 2016 on

Neal Beringer

They were tough guys for sure

Mar 25, 2016 on

Carol Anne Giles

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

Mar 25, 2016 on

Donna Appleby

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

Mar 25, 2016 on

Ahti Pelttari

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

Mar 25, 2016 on

Rosa Anderson

Amazing!

Mar 25, 2016 on

Bill Hudson

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

Mar 25, 2016 on

Dawn Stringer

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

Mar 25, 2016 on

Bill Hudson

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

Mar 25, 2016 on

Shannon Leana Simmons

Cool

Mar 25, 2016 on

Linda Fair

Memories of back in Michigan-Up

Mar 25, 2016 on

Patrick A Flynn

I would live there...

Mar 25, 2016 on

Rachael Rawson

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

Mar 25, 2016 on

Val Thomas

What cars not even a horse in shot!

Mar 25, 2016 on

Anna Gardner

Her hat looks to be inside out.

Mar 25, 2016 on

Dawn Stringer

Real men...

Mar 25, 2016 on

Val Thomas

Even tougher ladies to keep them guys in order!

Mar 25, 2016 on

Leslie Bacon

these could be my Grand Parents

Mar 25, 2016 on

Amy Babinski

kool

Mar 25, 2016 on

Judy Lindeman Fullerton

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

Mar 25, 2016 on

Trudie Cruey

I know who did the cooking

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Leonor Balderrama

GREAT PIC!!!

Mar 25, 2016 on

Val Thomas

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

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Barbara Hunter

They built America.

Mar 25, 2016 on

Sara Simon

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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

Wow. Very interesting

Mar 25, 2016 on

Monty Arnold

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

Mar 25, 2016 on

Wendy Donoghue

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 :-)

Mar 25, 2016 on

Lorraine Bennett

Having your picture taken was a big deal.

Mar 25, 2016 on

Kathy Van Tassell

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

Mar 25, 2016 on

Lynn Clarkson

And nobody was overweight!!

Mar 25, 2016 on

Lee An Forester Train

Those poor women!!

Mar 25, 2016 on

Beatriz Misenta

Love i!t

Mar 25, 2016 on

R Joseph Vignati

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

Mar 25, 2016 on

Bobbie Barnett

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

Mar 25, 2016 on

Annie Sweeney

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halloween

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Jo Vaughn-Hutson

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

Mar 25, 2016 on

Deborah Mobberly

Love the old pictures.

Mar 25, 2016 on

Rose Holler

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

Mar 25, 2016 on

Avay York Evans

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

Mar 25, 2016 on

Cathi Zink

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

Mar 25, 2016 on

Jennifer Anderson

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

Mar 25, 2016 on

Marian Rohloff

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

Mar 25, 2016 on

Lena Gargano-Reddy

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

Mar 25, 2016 on

Whimsical Robyn

Bunch of handsome fella's ❤️

Mar 25, 2016 on

Mary Kesner

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

Mar 25, 2016 on

Guadalupe Cuenca Moreno

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

Mar 25, 2016 on

Marina Newman

Such an amazing capture.

Mar 25, 2016 on

Lynn Rector Chrystall

Love this photo🌿💕🍃

Mar 25, 2016 on

Neetzee Berridge

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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Neetzee Berridge

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Mary Mary Hodnett

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

Mar 25, 2016 on

Marilyn Short Dauw

so glad to be living in modern times

Mar 25, 2016 on

Zee Brett Buchan

I wish I belong on that pix

Mar 25, 2016 on

Angie Swinger

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.

Mar 25, 2016 on

Linda Virtue

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

Mar 26, 2016 on

Angie Swinger

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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