lumber industry

Timber raft on the Potomac River US

Drawing shows a timber raft floating down the Potomac River past Maryland house and Georgetown, although neither are visible in the sketch. Wallis was a British Commissioner from the Foreign Office to the Unite... more

Zaravshanskii okrug. Splav liesa (amat) u kysh. Piandzhikenda

Photograph shows lumber being transported along a body of water in Pendzhikent, Tajikistan. Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' promyslovai︠a︡, 1871-1872, part 3, p. 20. Title from item.

On the drive, Pineries of Minnesota

Photograph shows men rolling logs in a river. "63" in image.

On the drive, Pineries of Minnesota

Photograph shows a river filled with logs. "54" in image.

Freshets in the West--great jam of logs at Chippewa Falls boom, Wiscon...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1869 June 5, p. 360.

Loading lumber on steamer at lumberyards, Menominee, Mich.

Title from Detroit, Catalogue J (1901); date based on Detroit, Catalogue F (1899). Originally part of a two-part panorama; for full panorama see negatives D4-4769 and D4-4770. "464" on negative. Detroit Publish... more

Logging in Michigan, the sled

Title from Detroit, Catalogue F (1899). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 04380. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Winter scene with horse team hauling logs on a sledge past a windmill,...

Print shows a Victorian trade card from a series of winter scenes with space for text advertising a particular product or service. For an example of how these cards were used for advertising, see: LOT 14100, no... more

[Loading lumber on steamer at lumberyards, Menominee, Mich.]

[Logging in Michigan, the sled]

Raft passing drawbridge, Winona, Minn

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue F (1899). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 04505. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. Heading(s) in 610 field(s) unverified.

Winona, raft passing below draw bridge

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue F (1899). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 04056. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Logging, cutting lengths

Locale and date based on Detroit, Catalogue F (1899). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 04383. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Eau Claire, Wis., railroad bridge and mills

Logging on the river, Menominee, Mich

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue F (1899). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 04771. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Eau Claire from the railroad bridge

Title from Detroit, Catalogue F (1899). "298" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 04677. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

The Loggers

[Eau Claire from the railroad bridge]

Eau Claire, Wis., railroad bridge and mills

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue F (1899). "297" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 04678. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Logging a big load

Logging, felling the tree

Locale and date based on Detroit, Catalogue F (1899). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 04382. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Winona, raft passing below draw bridge

Logging a big load

Locale and date based on Detroit, Catalogue F (1899). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 04381. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Logging on the river, Menominee, Mich.

Raft passing drawbridge, Winona, Minn.

The Loggers

Locale and date based on Detroit, Catalogue F (1899). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 04384. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Logging, cutting lengths

Logging, felling the tree

Red cedar lumbering at Cedar Keys, Florida

Three illustrations: 1. Lumbering, showing two men cutting wood and log being transported; 2. Building the raft; 3. The pencil factory - bird's-eye view. Wood engraving after sketch by S.G.W. Benjamin. Illus. i... more

Logging train

Train carrying large pieces of redwood trees, California. Illus. in: Redwood and lumbering in California forests. San Francisco, Cal. : Edgar Cherry & Co., publishers, 1884, [plate 21], following p. 84. No. 34.

Felled timber

Lumberjacks with large felled redwood tree, California. Illus. in: fixed Redwood and lumbering in California forests. San Francisco, Cal. : Edgar Cherry & Co., publishers, 1884, [plate 18], following p. 72. No. 12.

Preserve your forests from destruction, and protect your country from ...

Illustration shows a female spirit labeled "Public Spirit" warning two men cutting logs, of the consequences of deforestation. Title from item. Illus. from Puck, v. 14, no. 357, (1884 January 9), centerfold. Co... more

Evans' third saw

Two men posed with large saw and large piece of redwood tree, California. Illus. in: Redwood and lumbering in California forests. San Francisco, Cal. : Edgar Cherry & Co., publishers, 1884, [plate 24], followin... more

Logging in northern Wisconsin / drawn by T. de Thulstrup, Zimerman & N...

Horses pulling large loads of logs on sleds.

The Administration sawmill / J. Keppler.

Illustration shows President Cleveland standing next to a large "Reform Buzz-Saw" labeled "Pat. 1884 by G. Cleveland" at a sawmill, where three members of his cabinet "Manning, Whitney, [and] Bayard" are millin... more

Assorting grounds and saw mill

Photograph showing men sorting logs in large pools of water near a sawmill. 3333 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. Copyright 1888, by A. Wittemann, 58 & 60 Reade St., N.Y. Illus. in: Lumbering in Michigan... more

West Virginia, Camden on the Gauley, upper end of boom

Title from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 030572. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Lumber wharfs, St. John's River, Jacksonville, Fla

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 05808. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[Tōtōmi sanchū]

Print shows two men cutting lumber, a woman carrying an infant on her back is talking to a man sharpening a saw, with view of Mount Fuji in the distance.

A Lumber tow

Date based on negative number which falls within range of numbers in Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). "6" and "8" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021111. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Giant poplar on the William sic, West Virginia

Title from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 030773. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Lumber wharfs, St. John's River, Jacksonville, Fla.

A Lumber tow

[Giant poplar on the William [sic], West Virginia]

Ox teams with timber, probably in Cuba

Title devised by cataloger. "271" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 30883. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[Ox teams with timber, probably in Cuba]

[West Virginia, Camden on the Gauley, upper end of boom]

"Logging" in Northern California

Stereograph shows a man standing next to an ox team pulling lumber. 42770V U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by R. K. Bonine. Title from item. Stereo no. 114.

Pool with logs, Camden

"01858" and "207" on negative. Commissioned by West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railroad. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 01858. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Pool with logs, Camden

Giant poplar of the Williams, W. Va

Men standing at base and along tree. Listed in Detroit Publishing Co. negative log as no. L-6124. "Jackson, Denver, Phot." and "1861" on negative. Probably used as a left section of a panorama, other section(s)... more

Saw mill plant, Camden

"01859" and "208" on negative. Commissioned by West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railroad. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 01859. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Giant poplar of the Williams, W. Va.

Giant Poplar of the Williams, W. Va.

Giant Poplar of the Williams, W. Va

Date based on Baltimore and Ohio Railroad commission. Listed in Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898), renumbered "1861". "Jackson Denver Phot." Print made in 1985 by LC Photoduplication Service from origi... more

Saw mill plant, Camden

In the Minnesota pines - an ordinary haul

Print shows two men standing on a pile of logs on a sled drawn by four oxen during winter in Minnesota. Title from item. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 37, no. 1892 (1893 March 25), p. 281.

Largest load ever hauled

Photograph shows two men, possibly A. Underhill (foreman) and J.C. Hunt (scaler) standing atop 56 large logs on a sled; Dan Conley, teamster stands with four teams of horses. Title from item.

Logging in Minnesota

Photograph shows men with large load of logs on sled pulled by a team of four horses in Park Rapids, Minn. The Racket Store. Title from item.

Unloading logs on the canal, Dismal Swamp

No. 1087. Title from item.

Lumbermen's houses, Dismal Swamp

No. 1077. Title from item.

Lumber camp, Dismal Swamp

No. 1076. Title from item.

In the timber region, Arkansas / Wittenberg & Sorber, St L.

Exterior view of sawmill surrounded by lumber. Illus. in: Arkansas. Statistics and information showing the agricultural and mineral resources / Missouri Pacific railway company. 17th edition, c1896, p. 43. Refe... more

Logging scene in Washington / Kinsey & Kinsey photo.

62960 U.S. Copyright Office.

Winona, Minn., log raft passing draw bridge

Winona, Minn., log raft passing draw bridge

Listed in Detroit, Catalogue F (1899). "Detroit Photographic Co." Mounted back to back with "01935 Winona, Minn. The City from the bridge." May have been part of album. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 01936. Gift; S... more

Menominee, Mich., logging on the river

"468" and "98" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 04772. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Winona, Minn., log raft passing drawbridge

"Detroit Photographic Co." Mounted back to back with "01937. Rollingstone Valley. Near Lewiston, Minn." May have been part of album. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 01936A. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Menominee, Mich., logging on the river

Winona, Minn., log raft passing drawbridge

Winona, Minn., tow raft passing drawbridge

Blue jeans "will never wear out" : by Joseph Arthur, author of "The st...

Caption: The great saw mill scene. Created by "The Enquirer Job Printing Co., Cin., O." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Among the lumberjacks, Northern Michigan

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 071045. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

S.S. J.W. Westcott

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 022535. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Log train

Title from jacket. Photograph of a photographic print. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 9542. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[Logging train, Harbor Springs, Mich.]

[Along the docks, Mobile, Ala.]

The Woodmill, Merchants' Despatch Transportation Co

"G 2302" and "Detroit Photographic Co." on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043128. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Loading a lumber schooner, Savannah, Ga

Photo shows the schooner H.J. Smith, from Louisiana. (Source: Charles Seavey, 2015) Negative cracked across lower right. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 017698. Gift; State... more

Hauling logs to Railway, Keystone Lumber Co.

Title from jacket. Photograph of photo from unidentified source. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043158. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Lumber barge, inland route, Cheboygan-Petoskey, Mich.

Raft timber for export, Pensacola Harbor

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). "586-G" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 016294. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Frank G. Carpenter on woodpile

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Angola Landing, State Penitentiary farm, Mississippi River, La.

Title from jacket. "G 3789" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034337. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Lumber barge, inland route, Cheboygan-Petoskey, Mich

"G 4494" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 071046. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[A Lumberman's dream]

The Woodmill, Merchants' Despatch Transportation Co.

[Hudson River logging]

Loading a lumber schooner, Savannah, Ga.

Lumber docks, Jacksonville, Fla.

[Log train]

Lumber schooner, Savannah, Ga.

S.S. Sachem

Along the docks, Mobile, Ala.

Title from jacket. "G 3682" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034353. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Lumber schooner, Savannah, Ga

Photo shows 4 schooners, with probable names (from left to right): Ystavat (from Russia or Baltic), Storfursten (from Finland) and the Pendleton Brothers and the Adelaide Barbour (both operating out of New York... more

Hudson River logging

Title and date from Detroit, Thistle Publications (1912). Photograph of an illustration signed "Homer." Detroit Publishing Co. no. 029943. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

A Lumberman's dream

Title from jacket. "44" on negative. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Lumber docks, Jacksonville, Fla

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 017506. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Logs being hauled on a sleigh by a team of horses along the government...

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Unloading lumber, Saginaw, Mich

"Langell Boys" on freighter. "No. 147 Clif." on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070241. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.