Vintage logging – Woodsmen – WoodchuckCanuck.com

Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging is about the men who played their important role in the logging industry.

1885 Interior of bunk and cookhouse at a logging camp.

1885 Interior of bunk and cookhouse at a Heriot Bay, BC, logging camp.

12 horse team pulling a wagon loaded with a huge log through the forest and loggers all around., Lyonsville, CA.

Rights Information: Feb 28 2019 Special permission granted by the owning institution, California State University, Chico, CA, US, to WoodchuckCanuck.com, for use of this image for historical logging special collection review. Source: http://www.cdlib.org/

Photograph shows Woodsman, Spare that tree! Scene near Lyonsville, 1891. Stamped on back: San Leandro Chamber of Commerce, City Hall, San Leandro, California.

1895 Draft horses pulling load of logs on rig at Englebretson Mill.

Photograph shows loggers and a team of horses with a load of logs on a wagon. Thomas Shelton is on horse.

1895 Fir log at Huron Lumber Company, Bothell, Washington.

Photograph shows a logger driving a team of horses pulling a load of logs through the forest. Likely Sierra Lumber Company, Tehama County.

1898 Equality Colony showing men working at the sawmill.

Located in Skagit County, south of Bellingham on Colony Creek, Equality was a Socialist colony founded in the 1890s by the Brotherhood of the Co-operative Commonwealth. It lasted until 1904.