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IDNO:
000101
Title:
R. O. Speeders on Sunday Outing in Spruce Millyard.
Date:
undated
Description:
"Doc" Hannah on first speeder; Blackhurst; Long before cycling grew to widespread popularity, company officials and doctors used 'speeders' in conducting business. They were also handy means of seeing the wonderful mountain scenery on Cheat Mountain. Hannah, Va.
IDNO:
000102
Title:
Loggers at Dinner in Railroad Camp
Date:
1946/08/07
Description:
Cheat Mountain Cass, West Virginia; Standing: Sam Harman, Cook; looking toward camera: Alfred Higgins; first on left: Russell "Poppy" Taylor; seventh on left: Howard Barb; third on right: Lester Hevaner
IDNO:
000103
Title:
Fishermen on Speeders, Cass, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
GC and E Leatherwood Creek branch; front: Adam J. Hamrick; rear: Judd Wolfram, Webster Co. Extension Agent; note wall built to support railroad; note, also, sway in tracks just to rear of speeders.
IDNO:
000104
Title:
County Extension Agents (Mainline on Elk)
Date:
undated
Description:
Cass, W.V.; Harry Sturm (Upshur County Extension Agent) and Judd Wolfram (Webster County Extension Agent); boys not identified; Gordon Hamrick.
IDNO:
000105
Title:
Sawmill Crew at Laneville, Tucker County, W. Va.
Date:
ca 1910
Description:
O. M. Wilson, 6th from left in front row, with mustache; Marty P. Helmick 2nd from left, front row; Harman Kelly 1st on left, last row. Identified by Lewis Kelly; O. Homer Floyd Fansler, Hendricks, W.V.
IDNO:
000106
Title:
Morgantown Policemen, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
1960-1970
Description:
From left to right: 'Police Chief John Lewis, William Musgrave, Bill Hughes, Bennie Palmer, George Katchur, Robert West'.
IDNO:
000107
Title:
Heisler No. 6, Cass Scenic Railroad, Cass, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Train moving along tracks.
IDNO:
000108
Title:
Shay Locomotive in Shop, Cass, W. Va.
Date:
1969/07/29
Description:
Engine parked in shop.
IDNO:
000109
Title:
Shay No. 12, Left Side View, Standing Ready to be Junked.
Date:
undated
Description:
Derelict locomotives at Cass Yard, Cass, W.V.
IDNO:
000110
Title:
Mallet Locomotive No. 752 Taking Water at Ronceverte, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1911
Description:
This was the first Mallet locomotive to come up the C and O Greenbrier Division; Notice the carbon arc light with globe suspended above pole behind engine cab. This picture was taken several years after the first run was made in 1905.
IDNO:
000111
Title:
Climax No. 6 of Middle Fork Railroad, Ellamore, W. Va.
Date:
1957/06
Description:
Train on tracks. From the collection of Harold K. Vollrath, Shawnee-Mission, Kansas.
IDNO:
000112
Title:
Mower Construction Train, Cass, W. Va.
Date:
1946/08/07
Description:
Starting up Shavers Fork (Shay in woods at end of tracks); Walter Good 'Bluejay' Tumblin on flatcar (maybe not Walter Good - maybe Barney Showalter); D.D. Brown Collection.
IDNO:
000113
Title:
Shay No. 12. Builder's Photo
Date:
1921
Description:
P.E. Percy, Lima Locomotive Works.
IDNO:
000114
Title:
Heisler No. 6, Cass, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Engine hauling cars on the Cass Scenic Railroad.
IDNO:
000115
Title:
Shay No. 2 (Pulp Train) on Cheat Mountain, Cass, W. Va.
Date:
1908
Description:
West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company Engine No. 2
IDNO:
000116
Title:
Shay No. 12 on Test Run near Mace, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Possibly Herb Shafer in cabin doorway; from collection of Phillip Bagdon 7918 New Orleans Drive Alexandria VA 22308
IDNO:
000117
Title:
Pulp mill at Parsons
Date:
ca. 1907
Description:
Tucker County, West Virginia. Original source Homer Floyd Fansler, Hendricks, West Virginia
IDNO:
000118
Title:
High-Lift near Laneville, Tucker County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1910
Description:
Original Source: Homer Floyd Fansler, Hendricks, West Virginia
IDNO:
000119
Title:
Sawmill at Laneville, Tucker County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1910
Description:
Original source: Homer Floyd Fansler, Hendricks, West Virginia
IDNO:
000120
Title:
Sawmill Crew at Horton, Randolph County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1907
Description:
Original source: Homer Floyd Fansler, Hendricks, West Virginia
IDNO:
000121
Title:
Shay Locomotive at a Lumber camp near Horton, Randolph County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1912
Description:
Original source: Homer Floyd Fansler, Hendricks, West Virginia
IDNO:
000122
Title:
Logging Crew
Date:
undated
Description:
From Austin J. Sharpe, Huntersville, W.V., Cheat Mt., Spruce, W.Va., Pocahontas, County, W.Va.; Camp operated by the Spruce Lumber Co., Cass, W.Va.
IDNO:
000123
Title:
Logging Crew
Date:
ca. 1910
Description:
Group portrait of logging crew in woods. From Marshall Blizzard, Bayard, W.Va.
IDNO:
000124
Title:
Spruce Lumber Company Woods Crew at Camp
Date:
ca. 1910
Description:
Made on Cheat Mountain, Pocahontas County, WV, which was operated by the Spruce Lumber Company, at Cass, WV. From Austin J. Sharp, Huntersville, W.V.
IDNO:
000125
Title:
Train Carrying Lumber and Workers Across Bridge
Date:
undated
Description:
From Marshall Blizzard, Bayard, WV
IDNO:
000126
Title:
Davis, West Virginia at the Beginning of 1883
Date:
1883
Description:
From Mr. Melvin Heath, Davis, W. Va. Nov 1957
IDNO:
000127
Title:
Train Pulling Workers on Cars
Date:
undated
Description:
From Marshall Blizzard, Bayard, W. Va.
IDNO:
000128
Title:
Log Loader and Crew
Date:
undated
Description:
From Austin J. Sharpe, Huntersville, W.Va. Hambleton, Randolph County, W.Va.
IDNO:
000129
Title:
Log Skidding Crew and their Team of Horses
Date:
1903/06
Description:
From Marshall Blizzard, Bayard, W.Va. July 1903
IDNO:
000130
Title:
Loggers Posing on Logs
Date:
undated
Description:
From Austin J. Sharp, Huntersville, W.Va. "Made on Little River, which is near Bartow, and is commonly known as the east prong of Greenbrier River all of which lays in Pocahontas County, W.Va."
IDNO:
000131
Title:
Rod Engine of the Otter Creek Boom & Lumber Company Log Train
Date:
undated
Description:
Portrait of Lumber Workers on and beside a train. On Train-L-R 1.- 2.- On Ground-L-R 1. Ernest C. Sine 2.- 3.-; O. Homer Floyd Fansler, Hendricks, W.Va.
IDNO:
000132
Title:
Clearing Trees for a Road Up Shavers Fork
Date:
1946/08/07
Description:
Cass, WV; Looking from railhead; D.D. Brown Collection
IDNO:
000133
Title:
Loggers Posing with Logs
Date:
1911
Description:
Willdell, W.Va. 1911; Source of original: Earl Whitlach, Mill Creek, W.Va.
IDNO:
000134
Title:
Log Train Near Laneville, Tucker County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1910
Description:
O. Homer, Floyd Fansler, Hendricks, W.Va.
IDNO:
000135
Title:
Logging near Laneville, Tucker County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1910
Description:
Track of Logs through the forest. O. Homer Floyd Fansler, Hendricks, W.Va.
IDNO:
000136
Title:
Horse Drawn Railroad Cart Carrying Loggers
Date:
undated
Description:
Portrait of two men in the forest with a horse pulling their cart along tracks.
IDNO:
000137
Title:
Starcher Brothers and Horse Teams
Date:
1913/10/01
Description:
Near Camp 24 on Cheat Mountain, Cass, W. Va. Grover and Saul Starcher; Horse teams in woods. In the glory years of logging on Cheat Mountain, 125 teams of horses were used to bring logs down to the landings where they were loaded onto flat cars for the trip to Cass. Credit P.V. Bagdon Collection
IDNO:
000138
Title:
Log Loader Lifting a Log with Men on It
Date:
undated
Description:
From Austin J. Sharp, Huntersville, W.Va. May, Pocahontas County, W.Va.
IDNO:
000139
Title:
High-Lift Near Laneville, Tucker County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1910
Description:
O. Homer Floyd Fansler, Hendricks, W.Va.
IDNO:
000140
Title:
Shay No. 2 (Pulp train) on Cheat Mountain
Date:
1908
Description:
Cass, W.Va. Pulp and Paper Co. Engine No. 2; Engineer Lewis Collins sitting on stump. Note the size of timber that was cut from pulpwood.; A.F. Burrell, Box 207, Cowen, WV
IDNO:
000141
Title:
Deforestation at Dobbin, Grant County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1910
Description:
Lumber train on tracks moving through heavily lumbered area.
IDNO:
000142
Title:
Waste in Lumbering
Date:
undated
Description:
Cut trees in a forest.
IDNO:
000143
Title:
Destruction of Vegetation and Soil by Fires Following Lumber Operations
Date:
1912/09
Description:
Near Davis, Tucker Co.-- Geological Survey.
IDNO:
000144
Title:
Wreck of the Lucy Belle, Pocahontas County, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
The 'Lucy Belle' named after the engineer's girl. On Hill's Creek near Lobelia, Pocahontas Co., WV.
IDNO:
000145
Title:
Logging Scene in Pocahontas County, W. Va.
Date:
1900-1910
Description:
Portrait of men and crane lifting train.
IDNO:
000146
Title:
Forest Road
Date:
undated
Description:
The wood of blight killed chestnut if used within five years is suitable for ties or lumber. Narrow and standard guage railroads constitute the farmers market for his tie timber.
IDNO:
000147
Title:
Train Wreck in Nicholas County Pardee and Curtin Lumber Company
Date:
1912
IDNO:
000148
Title:
Collapsed Railroad Bridge, Babcock L. SB. Company
Date:
undated
Description:
Collapsed bridge and wreck of train box cars.
IDNO:
000149
Title:
Wasteful Deforestation on Cheat Mountain.
Date:
undated
Description:
Heavily logged area near train tracks.
IDNO:
000150
Title:
Wreck of Eva Lee
Date:
undated
Description:
Men working on wrecked train.
IDNO:
000151
Title:
Spruce Forest Cut Over and Destroyed by Fire Near Davis, W. Va.
Date:
undated
IDNO:
000152
Title:
Fire at Cherry River Boom and Lumber Co. Mill
Date:
1924/04/12
Description:
People standing by the remains of the Cherry River Boom and Lumber Co.
IDNO:
000153
Title:
Fire at Cherry River Boom and Lumber Company Mill
Date:
1924/12/04
Description:
Remains of the Cherry River Boom and Lumber Company.
IDNO:
000154
Title:
Fire at Cherry River Boom and Lumber Company Mill
Date:
1924/12/04
Description:
Remains of the Cherry & Lumber Company.
IDNO:
000155
Title:
Logging Camp Crew of Pardee and Curtin Lumber Company
Date:
undated
Description:
Group portrait of men sitting on a wooden bench.
IDNO:
000156
Title:
Pardee and Curtin Lumber Company Prior to Conversion to Electricity
Date:
ca. 1938
Description:
Bergoo, West Virginia; Lumber company building beside train tracks.
IDNO:
000157
Title:
Pardee and Curtin Lumber Company Mill Yard, Bergoo, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1930
Description:
Logs and lumber piles seen from a distance.
IDNO:
000158
Title:
Survey Crew Working on Boundaries of Monongahela National Forest
Date:
ca. 1930
Description:
Portrait of crew with surveying equipment.
IDNO:
000159
Title:
Cutting Bridge Stringers for a Logging Railroad
Date:
1933-1934
Description:
A Pardee and Curtin Company operation.
IDNO:
000160
Title:
Fire at Cherry River Boom and Lumber Co. Mill
Date:
1924/12/04
Description:
Smoke emanating from burning mill at night.
IDNO:
000161
Title:
Greenbrier, Cheat, and Elk Railroad Log Train
Date:
ca. 1916
Description:
Log Train passing along hillside.
IDNO:
000162
Title:
Loggers Posing in Front of Giant Tree Near Curtin, Nicholas County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1890-1910
Description:
Pardee and Curtain Lumber operation. This tree, possibly a redwood, was used to build the Titanic. More info from Comstock's "Of Times Past", 1949. Cut from Cuppernick ? Bend near Curtin, Nicholas County.
IDNO:
000163
Title:
Loggers Posing in Front of Giant Tree Near Curtin, Nicholas County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1890-1910
Description:
Possibly a redwood tree used in building the "Titanic". Harvested by the Pardee and Curtin Lumber Co.The man on the left is John Harvey Reid.
IDNO:
000164
Title:
Team of William 'Bill' McCourt on Logging Road
Date:
1933-34
IDNO:
000165
Title:
Survey Crew Working on Boundaries of Monongahela National Forest
Date:
undated
Description:
Group of men pose at their camp site. None are identified.
IDNO:
000166
Title:
Loggers in Pocahontas County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1900
Description:
Group portrait of loggers with their tools.
IDNO:
000167
Title:
Arks Tied on Greenbrier River Near Cass, W. Va.
Date:
1898
Description:
Men generally did not live in towns when they worked timber. Instead, they came in from outlying areas, lived in groups in barracks, and went home over the weekends. Here they lived in arks on the river.
IDNO:
000168
Title:
Lumber Workers at Logging Camp in Pocahontas County
Date:
ca. 1900
Description:
Group portrait of lumber workers in front of building.
IDNO:
000169
Title:
Guy Dean and Horses at Home on HIlls Creek
Date:
1930
IDNO:
000170
Title:
Log Piles in front of Lumber Mill
Date:
undated
IDNO:
000171
Title:
Logging Crew at Work
Date:
ca. 1900
IDNO:
000172
Title:
Portable Sawmill Operation
Date:
1939/11/01
Description:
Two men using lumber machinery next to a timbered hillside. Pendleton Co.
IDNO:
000173
Title:
Railroad Logging Camp,
Date:
1946/08/07
Description:
Log train passing logging camp. Note Log Dump in Foreground, Mower Lumber Co.
IDNO:
000174
Title:
Shay No. 4 in Woods with Log Crane, Mower Lumber Co.
Date:
1945/11/10
Description:
Crane loading logs onto train.
IDNO:
000175
Title:
Clearing Trees for Mower Lumber Co. Railway (Starting Grade Up Shavers Fork of Cheat River)
Date:
1946/08/07
IDNO:
000176
Title:
Log Loader Loading Flat Cars, Note Logs Lifted by Skidder, Mower Lumber Co.
Date:
1946/08/07
IDNO:
000177
Title:
Log Boom
Date:
undated
Description:
Greenbrier River, Near Ronceverte, St. Lawrence Boom and Manufacturing Company, Greenbrier County.
IDNO:
000178
Title:
Log Loading in the Forest
Date:
ca. 1901
IDNO:
000179
Title:
Pressure Chamber with Creosoted Logs Coming Out
Description:
Same chamber is used when wood is treated with osmosalts.
IDNO:
000180
Title:
Pole Peeler is One of Several B-P-B Dressing Operations
Date:
undated
Description:
Plant also planes, bores, squares ends of big timbers.
IDNO:
000181
Title:
Mobile Portable Saw Mill and Crew at Work
Date:
undated
Description:
The light machinery used in milling allows the mobile portable mill to penetrate the heart of the stand.
IDNO:
000182
Title:
Mobile Portable Saw Mill
Date:
undated
Description:
The portable mill cuts lumber and ties and does custom sawing for farmers.
IDNO:
000183
Title:
Mobile Portable Saw Mill and Crew at Work
Date:
undated
IDNO:
000184
Title:
Mobile Portable Saw Mill
Date:
undated
IDNO:
000185
Title:
Shay in Woods Near End of Track, Mower Lumber Co.
Date:
1946/08/07
Description:
Train engine on tracks in forest.
IDNO:
000186
Title:
Cass Mill Interior, Mower Lumber Co.
Date:
1946/08/07
Description:
Men working with mill equipment. L to R 1. Setter, William Simmons (sawed the last log at Cass July 1, 1960) 2. Oliver Tyson 3. unknown.
IDNO:
000187
Title:
Cass Mill Log Pond, Mower Lumber Co.
Date:
1946/05/20
Description:
Log train passing log pond.
IDNO:
000188
Title:
Benjamin Jackson Measures Log at Cass Mill, Mower Lumber Co.
Date:
1946/08/07
IDNO:
000189
Title:
Cass Mill Log Pond, Mower Lumber Co.
Date:
1946/08/07
Description:
Men direct floating logs on the pond as a log train passes.
IDNO:
000190
Title:
Shay No. 4 in Woods with Log Crane, Mower Lumber Co.
Date:
1945/11/10
Description:
Train engine and crane working in log yard.
IDNO:
000191
Title:
Log Trail, Meadow River Lumber Co.
Date:
1946/08/07
Description:
Man walking on a dirt road bordered by tree stumps.
IDNO:
000192
Title:
Log Skidder, Meadow River Lumber Co.
Date:
1946/05/20
Description:
Log skidder and log piles.
IDNO:
000193
Title:
Log Skidder, Meadow River Lumber Co.
Date:
1946/05/20
IDNO:
000194
Title:
Deforestation Scene, Meadow River Lumber Co.
Date:
1946/05/20
Description:
Picture of stumps and felled trees.
IDNO:
000195
Title:
Dozer Pulling Logs to Log Dump, Meadow River Lumber Co.
Date:
1946/08/07
IDNO:
000196
Title:
Dozer Pulling Logs to Log Dump, Meadow River Lumber Co.
Date:
1946/08/07
IDNO:
000197
Title:
Climax Locomotive of New Dominion Lumber Co., Diana, W. Va.
Date:
undated
IDNO:
000198
Title:
Locomotive Eva Lee, New Dominion Lumber Company
Description:
Diana, West Virginia. Two men standing in front of train engine.
IDNO:
000199
Title:
Log Skidder, Meadow River Lumber Co.
Date:
1946/05/20
IDNO:
000200
Title:
Cass Mill Interior, Mower Lumber Company, Cass, W. Va.
Date:
1946/08/07
Description:
Three men sorting lumber. L to R, 1. Alex Duncan 2. Sherwin Lambert 3. Cammern Ware.
