Lumber industry; Work camps; Lumber camps; Men; Boys; Logs
A group of men and a few boys at a logging camp in Breathitt County, Kentucky. Some stand on a dock and others stand on logs in the water. There is a row of cabins in the background.
Buildings; Commercial facilities; Automobile industry; Lumber industry
Mengel Body Company, Louisville, Kentucky, shown at the horizon of the photograph, with railroad tracks alongside it and a row of cars parked in font of the building. Mengel Body Company supplied wooden components to auto and other manufacturers....
The lumber yard outside a sawmill located on the South Fork of the Kentucky River at Oneida across from the mouth of Bullskin Creek. Handwritten on bottom border: 362. Title supplied by cataloger.
Nineteen men pose with a 6-foot, 8-inch diameter tree trunk (on which leans a saw) and two sections of the tree, one of which has been loaded onto a cart led by two horses. There is a white splotch in the lower left-hand corner of the photograph,...
A man holding a stick pilots a small wooden boat on Green River, with log rafts behind him (close to the shore). The left part of the shore has been cleared, but trees remain on the right side.
Oxen; Men; Logs; Carts & wagons; Rivers; Lumber industry
Four oxen pull a cart holding two tree trunks, on which a man sits. They are on a dirt road, travelling along a river or stream, through a forested countryside.
Three men in a lumberyard help hoist a board onto a low pile of boards while a fourth man stands to the right behind a smaller pile of similar boards on a wheeled cart that runs along a track. On either side of the track are many other piles of...
A steam engine travels through mountains alongside a body of water in Breathitt County, Kentucky. Several men stand on a flatcar. Stacked railroad ties lie alongside the tracks. The railroad was used by the logging plant.
Several parallel railroad tracks going up a mountain. There are cut boards (possibly railroad ties) along the track and a stack of barrels. Uphill from the tracks, a group of men, many holding shovels, stand on flatcars of a train.
