logging

Logging in Maine / motion picture

The subject is the movement of cut timber from the forest to the mill. The few scenes that make up the film are loggers performing the various operations necessary to prevent logs from jamming together. The men... More

Logging transport operation, Naoma, West Virginia

Event: Driving Route 3. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bernice Springston, of B&T Logging Contractors, in Canterbury Hollow ...

The extraction of coal and timber has for the past century formed a "boom and bust" economy for people living in the mountains. Conversations with residents and foresters reveal a contrast between two modes of ... More

Scenic view: logging in Northeast California

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Pr... More

A classic direct gear locomotive pushes cars of tourists out of the st...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed to climb the steepest grades, swing around hairpin curves and negotiate frail temporary tracks, such locomotives pulled incre... More

"A Brief Introduction to Hazy" - Public domain document scan

Richard A. Bradford, of Edwight, wrote this history of Hazy Creek in support of an effort by the Coal River Mountain Watch to nominate Hazy Creek to state and national historic registers as a Traditional Cultur... More

Icon David Mays, Horse Creek, public domain photograph

Event: Visit to the Sundial Tavern. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Scenic view: logging in Northeast California

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Pr... More

Coal river. Danny Williams, Clay's Branch. Southern West Virginia.

Event: Interview with Danny and Gregory Williams. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Coal river. Logging clear cut area. Southern West Virginia.

Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Coal river. Logging clear cut area. Southern West Virginia.

Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

General store in Kenton, Michigan, one time center of lumbering operat...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Loggers in Oregon

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Close-up of freshly cut tree in Canterbury Hollow on Rock Creek. Dann...

Public domain photograph of timber industry, lumber, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Danny Williams, of Clay's Branch, trimming the log end of a tree for B...

The extraction of coal and timber has for the past century formed a "boom and bust" economy for people living in the mountains. Conversations with residents and foresters reveal a contrast between two modes of ... More

Locomotive No. 4 chugs through the trainyard at Cass Scenic Railroad S...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

The river during American Civil War

Depression-era documentary which chronicles the exploration and exploitation of the Mississippi River from the Civil War through the 1920s. LP7702 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright: Pare Lorenz; 29Oct37; LP7702. ... More

B&T Logging Contractors sign at the job site

The extraction of coal and timber has for the past century formed a "boom and bust" economy for people living in the mountains. Conversations with residents and foresters reveal a contrast between two modes of ... More

Danny Williams, of B&T Logging Contractors, assessing the next area he...

The extraction of coal and timber has for the past century formed a "boom and bust" economy for people living in the mountains. Conversations with residents and foresters reveal a contrast between two modes of ... More

Hillside Logging Site on a Foggy Morning

Coal river. John Flynn and Bob Daniel. Southern West Virginia.

Event: Interview with Bob Daniel. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Oral history with 78 year old male, Lewiston, Idaho (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Idaho Commission on the Arts. Boise, ID 78 year old male. "Michigan Bill" born in 1903 in Quebec (St. Anisette); grew up in North Lawrence, NY. Arrive... More

Logging transport operation, Naoma, West Virginia

Event: Driving Route 3. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Hudson River logging] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Picryl description: Public domain image of fishing, fishing boat, river, lake, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Opie Aldman, of B&T Logging Contractors, unchaining logs from a bulldo...

The extraction of coal and timber has for the past century formed a "boom and bust" economy for people living in the mountains. Conversations with residents and foresters reveal a contrast between two modes of ... More

Danny Williams, of B&T Logging Contractors, relaxing on a break from l...

The extraction of coal and timber has for the past century formed a "boom and bust" economy for people living in the mountains. Conversations with residents and foresters reveal a contrast between two modes of ... More

Logging transport operation, Naoma, West Virginia

Event: Driving Route 3. Public domain photograph of timber industry, lumber, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Coal river. Bob Daniel, Dry Creek, WV. Southern West Virginia.

Event: Interview with Bob Daniel. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Smoke from a direct-gear logging locomotive nearly obscures the depot ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed to climb the steepest grades, swing around hairpin curves and negotiate frail temporary tracks, such locomotives pulled incre... More

Old lumberjack at camp near Effie, Minnesota

Picryl description: Public domain image of military personnel, conscription, group of people in uniform, armed forces, infantry, war activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Coal river. Gregory Williams, Clay's Branch. Southern West Virginia.

Event: Interview with Danny and Gregory Williams. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bernice Springston, of B&T Logging Contractors, in Canterbury Hollow ...

Public domain photograph of farm, farmer, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Once a symbol of the economic power of timber and the lumber business ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Now (2015) only twisted steel and rusted machinery remain above cracking cement. Trees and vines grow in a place where humans once toi... More

Coal river. American Folklife Center: Danny Williams. Southern West Vi...

Event: Interview with Danny and Gregory Williams. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Locomotive No. 4 chugs into the trainyard at Cass Scenic Railroad Stat...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Piles of logs are processed for shipping at the pier in Port Angeles, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-13) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More

Smoke from a direct-gear logging locomotive nearly obscures the depot ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed to climb the steepest grades, swing around hairpin curves and negotiate frail temporary tracks, such locomotives pulled incre... More

Once a symbol of the economic power of timber and the lumber business ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Now (2015) only twisted steel and rusted machinery remain above cracking cement. Trees and vines grow in a place where humans once toi... More

Locomotive No. 4 chugs through the trainyard at Cass Scenic Railroad S...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed to climb the steepest grades, swing around hairpin curves and negotiate frail temporary tracks, this direct-gear Shay logging... More

Oral history with 78 year old male, Lewiston, Idaho (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Idaho Commission on the Arts. Boise, ID 78 year old male. "Michigan Bill" born in 1903 in Quebec (St. Anisette); grew up in North Lawrence, NY. Arrive... More

"A Brief Introduction to Hazy" - Public domain document scan

Richard A. Bradford, of Edwight, wrote this history of Hazy Creek in support of an effort by the Coal River Mountain Watch to nominate Hazy Creek to state and national historic registers as a Traditional Cultur... More

Conversation with 23 year old white male, Arkansas (Transcript)

Oral history with 70 year old male, British Columbia (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. 70 year old male. Talks about the Depression and its effect on Sandon, B... More

Locomotive No. 4 literally blows off steam at Cass Scenic Railroad Sta...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed to climb the steepest grades, swing around hairpin curves and negotiate frail temporary tracks, this direct-gear Shay logging... More

This planing mill and a larger, steel lumber mill next door, just down...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Now (2015) only twisted steel and rusted machinery remain above cracking cement. Trees and vines grow in a place where humans once toi... More

Piles of logs are processed for shipping at the pier in Port Angeles, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-13) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More

Conversation with 23 year old white male, Arkansas (Transcript)

Conversation with 23 year old white male, Arkansas (Transcript)

Oral history with 70 year old male, British Columbia (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. 70 year old male. Talks about the Depression and its effect on Sandon, B... More

Oral history with 70 year old male, British Columbia (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. 70 year old male. Talks about the Depression and its effect on Sandon, B... More

"A Brief Introduction to Hazy" - Public domain document scan

Richard A. Bradford, of Edwight, wrote this history of Hazy Creek in support of an effort by the Coal River Mountain Watch to nominate Hazy Creek to state and national historic registers as a Traditional Cultur... More

Oral history with 70 year old male, British Columbia (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. 70 year old male. Talks about the Depression and its effect on Sandon, B... More

Oral history with 70 year old male, British Columbia (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. 70 year old male. Talks about the Depression and its effect on Sandon, B... More

Oral history with 70 year old male, British Columbia (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. 70 year old male. Talks about the Depression and its effect on Sandon, B... More

"A Brief Introduction to Hazy" - Public domain document scan

Richard A. Bradford, of Edwight, wrote this history of Hazy Creek in support of an effort by the Coal River Mountain Watch to nominate Hazy Creek to state and national historic registers as a Traditional Cultur... More

"A Brief Introduction to Hazy" - Public domain document scan

Richard A. Bradford, of Edwight, wrote this history of Hazy Creek in support of an effort by the Coal River Mountain Watch to nominate Hazy Creek to state and national historic registers as a Traditional Cultur... More

Conversation with 23 year old white male, Arkansas (Transcript)

Conversation with 23 year old white male, Arkansas (Transcript)

Oral history with 70 year old male, British Columbia (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. 70 year old male. Talks about the Depression and its effect on Sandon, B... More

Oral history with 70 year old male, British Columbia (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. 70 year old male. Talks about the Depression and its effect on Sandon, B... More

Oral history with 78 year old male, Lewiston, Idaho (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Idaho Commission on the Arts. Boise, ID 78 year old male. "Michigan Bill" born in 1903 in Quebec (St. Anisette); grew up in North Lawrence, NY. Arrive... More

"A Brief Introduction to Hazy" - Public domain document scan

Richard A. Bradford, of Edwight, wrote this history of Hazy Creek in support of an effort by the Coal River Mountain Watch to nominate Hazy Creek to state and national historic registers as a Traditional Cultur... More

Conversation with 23 year old white male, Arkansas (Transcript)

A scene with historical reverberations in the little town of Rupert, W...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when West Virginia's old-growth forests were nearly denuded in a frenzy of logging, the sit... More

Conversation with 23 year old white male, Arkansas (Transcript)

Conversation with 23 year old white male, Arkansas (Transcript)

Conversation with 23 year old white male, Arkansas (Transcript)

Conversation with 23 year old white male, Arkansas (Transcript)

Oral history with 70 year old male, British Columbia (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. 70 year old male. Talks about the Depression and its effect on Sandon, B... More

Oral history with 70 year old male, British Columbia (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. 70 year old male. Talks about the Depression and its effect on Sandon, B... More

Oral history with 70 year old male, British Columbia (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. 70 year old male. Talks about the Depression and its effect on Sandon, B... More

Oral history with 70 year old male, British Columbia (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. 70 year old male. Talks about the Depression and its effect on Sandon, B... More

Bernice Springston, of B&T Logging Contractors, and Danny Williams, of...

The extraction of coal and timber has for the past century formed a "boom and bust" economy for people living in the mountains. Conversations with residents and foresters reveal a contrast between two modes of ... More

Oral history with 78 year old male, Lewiston, Idaho (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Idaho Commission on the Arts. Boise, ID 78 year old male. "Michigan Bill" born in 1903 in Quebec (St. Anisette); grew up in North Lawrence, NY. Arrive... More

Conversation with 23 year old white male, Arkansas (Transcript)

Conversation with 23 year old white male, Arkansas (Transcript)

Oral history with 70 year old male, British Columbia (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. 70 year old male. Talks about the Depression and its effect on Sandon, B... More

Oral history with 70 year old male, British Columbia (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. 70 year old male. Talks about the Depression and its effect on Sandon, B... More

Oral history with 70 year old male, British Columbia (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. 70 year old male. Talks about the Depression and its effect on Sandon, B... More

Conversation with 23 year old white male, Arkansas (Transcript)

Conversation with 23 year old white male, Arkansas (Transcript)

[Logging truck] California - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Pr... More

A classic direct gear locomotive pushes cars of tourists out of the st...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed to climb the steepest grades, swing around hairpin curves and negotiate frail temporary tracks, such locomotives pulled incre... More

Oral history with 78 year old male, Lewiston, Idaho (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Idaho Commission on the Arts. Boise, ID 78 year old male. "Michigan Bill" born in 1903 in Quebec (St. Anisette); grew up in North Lawrence, NY. Arrive... More

"A Brief Introduction to Hazy" - Public domain document scan

Richard A. Bradford, of Edwight, wrote this history of Hazy Creek in support of an effort by the Coal River Mountain Watch to nominate Hazy Creek to state and national historic registers as a Traditional Cultur... More

Oral history with 70 year old male, British Columbia (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. 70 year old male. Talks about the Depression and its effect on Sandon, B... More

Oral history with 70 year old male, British Columbia (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. 70 year old male. Talks about the Depression and its effect on Sandon, B... More

Oral history with 70 year old male, British Columbia (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. 70 year old male. Talks about the Depression and its effect on Sandon, B... More

A classic direct gear locomotive pushes cars of tourists out of the st...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed to climb the steepest grades, swing around hairpin curves and negotiate frail temporary tracks, such locomotives pulled incre... More

"A Brief Introduction to Hazy" - Public domain document scan

Richard A. Bradford, of Edwight, wrote this history of Hazy Creek in support of an effort by the Coal River Mountain Watch to nominate Hazy Creek to state and national historic registers as a Traditional Cultur... More

Conversation with 23 year old white male, Arkansas (Transcript)

Oral history with 70 year old male, British Columbia (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. 70 year old male. Talks about the Depression and its effect on Sandon, B... More

Oral history with 70 year old male, British Columbia (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. 70 year old male. Talks about the Depression and its effect on Sandon, B... More

Oral history with 70 year old male, British Columbia (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. 70 year old male. Talks about the Depression and its effect on Sandon, B... More

Oral history with 70 year old male, British Columbia (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. 70 year old male. Talks about the Depression and its effect on Sandon, B... More

Oral history with 78 year old male, Lewiston, Idaho (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Idaho Commission on the Arts. Boise, ID 78 year old male. "Michigan Bill" born in 1903 in Quebec (St. Anisette); grew up in North Lawrence, NY. Arrive... More

Oral history with 70 year old male, British Columbia (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. 70 year old male. Talks about the Depression and its effect on Sandon, B... More

Logging plant, Washington - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

A classic direct gear locomotive pulls cars of tourists into the stati...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed to climb the steepest grades, swing around hairpin curves and negotiate frail temporary tracks, such locomotives pulled incre... More

A classic direct gear locomotive pushes cars of tourists out of the st...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed to climb the steepest grades, swing around hairpin curves and negotiate frail temporary tracks, such locomotives pulled incre... More