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Logging Operations

Seguin River Tumbling Dam

Available Images: Full Size
Accession Number: JBM91
Category: Lumbering; Logging Operations
Description: Dams were built for use in the summer. When rivers started to get too low, leaving sawlogs stranded on shores, water was stored behind the dams and periodically released. Logs were then able to continue to float down river. Land that has been logged in found in the foreground.
Date: November 1887
Source: PSPL
Physical Attributes: 11.6cm x 19.2cm; b/w photograph
Photographer: J.B. Miller
Keywords: logging; lumbering; operations; dam; tumbling; logs; sawlogs; river drive; water; transport; waterway;
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