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Logging Operations

Lumber Woods Skidway

Available Images: Full Size
Accession Number: JBM97
Category: Lumbering; Logging Operations
Description: A "skidway" was a path cleared for piling logs, gathered together for moving to the log dumps when the snow was deep enough to build roads. The logs would be moved onto sleighs pulled by horses, and would then be taken to the dumps.
Date: November 1887
Source: PSPL
Physical Attributes: 11.6cm x 19.2cm; b/w photograph
Photographer: J.B. Miller
Keywords: logging; lumbering; operations; skidway; path; cleared; pile; logs; sawlogs; dump; haul; sleigh; gather; collect;
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