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- IDNO:
- 015380
- Title:
- Logging Crew at Work in a Deforested Area of Tucker County, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1916
- IDNO:
- 034706
- Title:
- Railroad Tracks through Deforested Area, Tucker County, W. Va.
- IDNO:
- 034709
- Title:
- Deforested Area Worked by M. M. and D. D. Brown Lumber, Tucker County, W. Va.
- Description:
- 'Switchback Railroad Clover Run to Brown Siding, Tucker County, W. Va.'
- IDNO:
- 034711
- Title:
- Locomotive and Log Loader
- IDNO:
- 034754
- Title:
- Sections 12 Switchback Railroad Clover Run to Brown Siding, Tucker County, W. Va.
- IDNO:
- 034756
- Title:
- Logging Locomotive, Tucker County, W. Va.
- IDNO:
- 034757
- Title:
- Railroad Tracks through Deforested, Tucker County, W. Va.
- Description:
- Sections 12 Switchback Railroad Clover Run to Brown Siding
- IDNO:
- 034758
- Title:
- Logging Sections 12 Switchback Railroad Clover Run to Brown Siding, Tucker County, W. Va.
- IDNO:
- 050595
- Title:
- Charles Blake at the Philadelphia Office at Albert Thompson's Desk, Philadelphia, Pa.
- Date:
- ca. 1880-1930
- Description:
- This image is part of the Thompson Family of Canaan Valley Collection. The Thompson family played a large role in the timber industry of Tucker County during the 1800s, and later prospered in the region as farmers, business owners, and prominent members of the Canaan Valley community. Albert Thompson of Philadelphia bought the J.L. Rumbarger Lumber Company of Tucker County in the late nineteenth century. He later built his business, the Thompson Lumber Company, which later became the Blackwater Boom and Lumber Company.A caption on the back of the image reads: "Chas Blake [Charles], Phila. office, A. Thompson's desk."
- IDNO:
- 050733
- Title:
- Overhead Skidder in Blackwater Canyon, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1910-1930
- Description:
- The overhead, or cableway skidder, used several different cables raised at both ends, from the skidder to trees above the loading area, and allowed loggers to raise log loads above ground obstructions in order to move them. The skidder in this image is shown moving several logs.This image is part of the Thompson Family of Canaan Valley Collection. The Thompson family played a large role in the timber industry of Tucker County during the 1800s, and later prospered in the region as farmers, business owners, and prominent members of the Canaan Valley community.
- IDNO:
- 050757
- Title:
- Log Train for D. F. Lumber Company in Laneville, w. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1910
- Description:
- This image is part of the Thompson Family of Canaan Valley Collection. The Thompson family played a large role in the timber industry of Tucker County during the 1800s, and later prospered in the region as farmers, business owners, and prominent members of the Canaan Valley community.