Historical Logging Photographs

logging-0001 Team of Horses hauling logs into camp Freshwater, CA circa:1880s	logging-0002 Early photo of horses hauling Redwood Railroad Ties Humboldt County, CA circa:1880s	logging-0003 Grease Monkey taking a break and tending to Horses that carry water into the wood for the workers. Bull Creek, CA circa:1880s
logging-0004 Eight Horse Team pulling 2 old growth Redwoods on crudely fashioned log track. Newburg, CA circa:1880s	logging-0005 Some loggers in Redwood Country were slow to give up their oxen teams. Up until 1915 they were still to be found on some skid roads.	logging-0006 Big Trees require big saws which is evident in this photograph of 2 fallers standing on spring boards.
logging-0007 This photograph of a young woman posing in the undercut of a Giant Redwood with her horse was quite common subject for the traveling photographer. Field Brook, CA circa:1880s	logging-0008 Typical of the publicity shots favored in earlier days to impress friends in the East with the size of Western trees.	logging-0009 Cavalry posed on a large Redwood known as the "Cavalry Tree" Calaveras, CA circa:1890s
logging-0010 Logging Crew posing in front of a 26ft Log and showing off the 28ft saw it took to take it down. Converse Basin, CA circa: 1890s	logging-0011 Mill Bosses posing in front of a 10,000 board foot butt cut at the Head Rig of the Pacific Lumber Company Scotia, CA circa: 1890s	logging-0012 Large Logs cut in the operations of John Vance Mill and Lumber Company on Mad River. The logs were 13ft to 19ft in Diameter, and the tree was approximately 300ft long.
logging-0013 This is the Mattole Lumber Company's Wharf and Railroad at the mouth of the Mattole River used for loading ships with Tan Bark. Petrolia, CA circa: 1900s	logging-0014 Twelve wood crew members in their Sunday Best posing with their dog on Old Growth Stump. Freshwater, CA circa: 1890s	logging-0015 An entire Lumber Camp takes time out to pose with the 26ft diameter Sequoia. Note Team of Horses on top of tree. Converse Basin, CA circa: 1898