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A group of men stand on wooden platforms using long poles to guide logs in a river. Tall wooden posts line the platforms, and there are trees in the background.
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Title:
Sorting Them Out
Creator:
Peterson
Donor:
Michele Wylie
Date Created (Archival Standard):
1910-1940
Description:
A group of men stand on wooden platforms using long poles to guide logs at the Sorting Gaps on the Pend Oreille River.
Original Description:
Hallie Griswold said that each log as it went into the logs drive was stamped as to which company it belonged to. On the cut ends the stamp was driven in with a sledgehammer so deeply that an inch or two could be sawed off and the mark would still show. Logs were also stamped on the bark (which might slip off), and each also bore a U.S. Forest Service mark--if it was forest service timber, which most was. The Beardmore stamp was a large VIV, he said; Humbird was a big H, Fidelity a big F, Dalkena a big D and Panhandle a large P. Archivist's note: accession card notes Peterson #309-16A.
Subjects:
logging log drives sorting booms
Original Subject:
forest service; staff
Location:
Bonner County
Latitude:
48.5036171
Longitude:
-117.2641438
Source:
Marylyn Cork Collection, Priest River Library
Source Identifier:
log4-01
Original Format:
black and white photograph
Type:
Image;StillImage
Format:
image/jpeg
Language:
eng

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"Sorting Them Out", Marylyn Cork Priest River Historical Collection, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/priestriver/items/priestriver0256.html
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