Lumberjacks stand in the snow outside the buildings that made up their camp. On the back of this card is a note from one man to a woman named Belle in DeSota, Kansas telling her that he might be coming to see her next week.
This photograph shows a logging crew, consisting of Henry Perttula, Jonas Perttula, William Perttula, Emil Kangas, Waino J. Heikkinen, and an unidentified man. Sitting are Abel Palkie and Adolph Peterson.
A view of a log jam on the Little Fork River. The river is so full of cut logs that that the water is barely visible. A thick forest grows on both sides of the river.
Local woodsman Mike Mattila is standing in a large pine stump which appears as if it is going to devour him. The fact that this massive stump was hollow indicates its core had rotted out by the time the photo was taken. Whether Mattila felled the tree himself is not known, but if he did, he most certainly used something other than the tool in his left hand.
Postcard with photo of lumber camp and John Wolcott, Henry Campbell, Glen Campbell, Jack Wolcott, and Lloyd Wolcott, with message from Jack Wolcott to Mrs. J. W. Chace, St. Clair, Minnesota, postmarked Kelliher, Minnesota, Beltrami County
Winton's first lumber mill. It started as the Knox Lumber Company but was renamed after its sale. Like Swallow and Hopkins, it, too, closed in the 1920s.