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Logging Operations

Below the Dam, Mountain Rapids

Available Images: Full Size
Accession Number: JBM213
Category: Lumbering; Logging Operations
Description: Dams were built for use in the summer. When rivers started to get too low, sawlogs would be left stranded on shores. Water was stored behind the dams and periodically released, allowing the logs to continue floating down river.
Date: June 1885
Source: PSPL
Physical Attributes: 11.6cm x 19.2cm; b/w photograph
Photographer: J.B. Miller
Keywords: logging; lumbering; operations; river; transport; dam; sawlogs; float; strand; waterway;
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