American Historical Ephemera & Photography

16 silver gelatin photographs, each 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 in., featuring various species of trees, workers performing logging tasks, and men posing with noteworthy specimens, all with accompanying typewritten captions on opposite facing pages. Images adhered to pages of a black leather album with front cover fully separated and heavy wear throughout. Image conditions vary, though most feature some toning. 

Captions include, "Sawing a fir tree into logs. This operation is called bucking;" "Fir log 100 feet long, on cars for shipment;" "Largest square timber ever sawed in any saw mill. This timber was manufactured in Oregon and shipped to the St. Louis Exposition by the state of Oregon for exhibiting purposes. It was four feet square and forty-four feet long and contained 8,008 feet of lumber;" "Donkey Engine. Showing method of hauling large logs in the woods of Oregon. This machine is mounted on a sled and pulls itself with its own power from place to place through the woods...From one to three of such machines are in use in all of the principal logging camps of the Pacific Coast;" and others. Inside front cover features adhered typewritten label reading, "Property of the American Timber Holding Co., 1400-1 Majestic Bldg., Milwaukee, Wis."