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    "Banking Gilchrist Timber"

    Possibly snowplowing or scraping the streets in winter.

    Skidding logs using a steam driven donkey engine.

    People standing outside lumber camp buildings during winter.

    Log Sleigh on Ice Road

    In order to make it easier to pull this gigantic load of logs, a water sprinkler tank wet the roadway to create a surface of ice.

    Lumber camp crew posing with horse teams and large log pile. Possible Fletcher lumber camp.

    Second Avenue, looking south, in Downtown Alpena. Maltz Theatre is on the left.

    "West Chisholm at Second. Winter, Jan. 1, 1893"

    Second Avenue looking west toward Chisholm Street and the Holmes Block.

    Two sled loads of logs.

    "Sammy Aikins, Churchill Lumber Company Barn-Boss"

    Several loads of logs on rail beds connected to a tractor train engine connecting to the main line for transportation out of the woods.

    Ice path at Fletcher lumber camp used for sleighs to move logs through the woods to railroad line.

    "Island Mill Log Bank, Jan 5, 1908"

    Lumber camp crew posing outside in winter. Horse teams are in the back. Second man from right is holding a peavey and the second man from the left is holding a saw over his shoulder.

    Loggers rolling logs off log pile for transportation in winter.

    "Below 9th Street Bridge, 1912"

   

    Crew pulling up ice blocks from the lake next to the U.S. Lifesaving Service boathouse on Middle Island. 1916 date written on image would have to be incorrect as building says U.S. Life Boat Station. 1916, it was Coast Guard.