Vintage logging – cattle – 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 cattle that were raised for work and for food.

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1907 Ox team hauling logs in Grizzy Bluff, Humboldt Co.

View of ox team hauling large logs up a skid road in Grizzy Bluff, Humboldt County. Loggers are seen on either side of the skid road.
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/

1910 McMartin's Camp — 1910 McMartin’s Camp

Conveying dinner to loggers camp near Hazel, Washington. Sometime in the 1910s, the firm of Allen & Perkins made this photographic postcard showing an oxcart and two men carrying food to loggers at work in the woods. The photo was taken at McMartin’s Camp, near Hazel, Washington, a logging and sawmill town east of Arlington.

Chopping and hauling wood At Alert Bay.

Photograph of Keith Mill with a 10 bull team pulling a log. Butte County, 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.
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Photograph shows a logging team of horses and oxen pulling a load of logs near Clio, Plumas County. The logging ‘donkey’ on the right was known as a Seattle from the makers name. 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/