Search Results
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.