Historic Logging Practices

Images depict early logging scenes with tractors and logs in forested areas, showcasing resource management practices in various U.S. states.

Logging: Felling - Alaska. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
Logging: Felling - Alaska. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Wood Utilization. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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"Lumbering in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi - Loading logs on a log-train for the construction of portable houses for the American Expeditionary Forces. This photograph, numbered 111-SC-2312, was captured in January 1918 as part of documenting industry and war activities during World War One."
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Station #120A, Massachusetts Tuberculosis Hospital, effluent from sewage filters, Rutland, Mass., Dec. 15, 1930 , Stream-gaging stations, waterworks, real estate, watershed sanitary conditions
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Logging: Transportation: Railroads - Oregon. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Timber Management: Types - Mississippi. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Logging: Skidding with Tractors - Texas. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Foresters at Work - Idaho. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Brush and Cull Tree Continued - Wisconsin. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Logging: Skidding with Tractors - California. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Instrumentation: Climatic - Oregon. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Logging: Loading Logs - Washington. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Logging Camps and Crews - Minnesota. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Road Construction - Wisconsin. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Logging: Felling - Alaska. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Artificial Regeneration - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Description: Manchester Co. Block C. Tobacco in among Rubber Location: Borneo asia, malaysia, borneo, sabah, asiathroughalens
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Movable narrow gauge for gold mining in the rainforest by the company L. & F. de Jong, Suriname, Julius Muller (attributed to), 1896 photomechanical print Surina Publisher: Haarlem Publisher: Haarlem paper collotype railway, tramway; rack railway. forest, wood. mining Suriname
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Crude Products: Ties and Mine Props. - South Carolina. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Equipment: Range Improvement - All States. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Wood Utilization. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Mining - Pennsylvania. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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A black and white photograph taken in 1919. The image shows a building being constructed at Camp Gordon, GA during World War I. The focus is on the construction activity, with workers visible on ladders and scaffolding. The photo's description is numbered as 346 in the collection.
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Wildlife Transplanting - All States. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Road Construction - Oregon. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Crude Products: Ties and Mine Props. - Wyoming. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Description: Chinamen Squaring a Belian Log. Location: Borneo Description: The Corduroy Timber Road at Balu. Location: Balu, Borneo Description: Loading a Kuda or Handsledge with a 36ft rough hewn Belian Square (for transport to Hong Kong). Location: Borneo Description: The same 36ft Belian log being dragged over a Corduroy Bridge on its way to the Bulu Stream. Location: Borneo asia, malaysia, borneo, sabah, asiathroughalens
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Tree Seeding - Louisiana. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Logging: Transportation: Trucks - Florida. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Artificial Regeneration - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Logging: Skidding with Animals - Georgia. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Timber Management - Cut -over Area - Connecticut. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Roads - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Logging: High Lead Log Skidding - California. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Logging: Skidding with Animals - Michigan. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Logging: Loading Logs - Maine. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Forest Fire Equipment: Bulldozers/ Tractors - All States. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Building Alaska Highway. Original caption: 42-4825: Progress of Alaska Highway north of Dawson Creek. Original caption: 42-4826: Progress of Alaska Highway north of Dawson Creek. Tractor and bulldozer piling stumps on the Alcan Highway. State: Alaska.
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Red and white pine plantation, planted in spring of 1935, Eugene G. Kelley property, Prescott, Mass., Nov. 17, 1941 : Parcel no. 388-16 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, forestry
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Description: Caterpillar tractors in use on the construction of the Trans-Insular Road Location: Dominica Date: 1957-1960 caribbean, dominica, caribbeanthroughalens
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Logging: Transportation: Log Drive - Maine. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Logging: Felling - Pennsylvania. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Logging: Loading Logs - North Carolina. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Logging: Falling: Power Saws. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Foresters at Work - Illinois. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Logging: Falling: General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Road Construction - Ohio. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Logs & Log Decks - Oregon. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Crude Products: Ties and Mine Props. - Missouri. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Logs & Log Decks - Wisconsin. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Beaver Brook at weir below Pepper's mill pond dam, Ware, Mass., 8:40 AM, May 14, 1936 , Stream-gaging stations, waterworks, real estate, brooks, watershed sanitary conditions, floods natural events, dams hydraulic structures, weirs
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Roads - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Forest Fire Equipment: Tool Caches - All States. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Road Construction - Michigan. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Saw Products: Lumber Construction - Virginia. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History