subject: Logging

 

Whittaker Woodlot near the Princeton Depot, c1901

description
  • – Whittaker woodlot near the Princeton Depot in Princeton, Massachusetts. Whittaker woodlot was one of many sawmills located around Princeton. The photograph shows stacks of logs in the background and the main shed with stove in the mid-ground. The workers and their teams of horses are shown in the foreground.
subjectcollectiondate
  • – 1901?
publisherrelation
  • – Is part of the collection of the Princeton Historical Society, http://www.princetonmahistory.org, housed in the Princeton Public Library, http://www.princetonpubliclibrary.org, Goodnow Memorial Building, Princeton, Massachusetts.
format
  • – image/jpg
language
  • – English

A cove near the sawmill, Holyoke, Mass.

description
  • – Image of two men working with logs in a cove off the Connecticut River. One man is standing upright and holding a long pike pole while the other man is bent over the log and is pulling on the log with a chain and a short pole. These men may be feeding the logs up the sluice to the mill. On the banks of the cover behind them rest piles of logs.
subjectcollectiondate
  • – ca. 1900
publishercreatorrelation
  • – Image is part of the Clifton Johnson Collection, 1880-1940. Jones Library Special Collections, Amherst, Massachusetts. http://www.joneslibrary.org
format
  • – image/jpg

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