IMAGE
Diamond Match Logging Train Item Info
- Title:
- Diamond Match Logging Train
- Donor:
- Naida Miller
- Date Created (ISO Standard):
- 1929
- Organizations:
- Diamond Match Company
- Description:
- A train carrying logs travels on a wooden track through a forest with tall, slender trees. Text reads: "A DIAMOND MATCH LOGGING TRAIN ENROUTE TO PRIEST LAKE WHERE THE LOGS ARE FLOATED TO THEIR DESTINATION. MILLIONS OF FEET OF WHITE PINE ARE CUT YEARLY AND MADE INTO “DIAMOND MATCHES” TO SUPPLY THE WORLD —Photo by Arthur Haines." Handwritten Text on Train: "Diamond Match Logging Train Priest Lake Region," 1929.
- Original Description:
- This picture is a copy from a 1930 calendar, photographer identified below cutline. Edith Peterson says Stanley Jones had the job of moving this train into the Priest Lake area and that Howard Peterson, Otto White and Shorty Sheridan were three of the crew. She says they skidded it on site, re enforcing the Saddler Creek bridge to do so.
- Subjects:
- logging railroad transportation
- Original Subject:
- logging; railroad transportation
- Location:
- Bonner County
- Source:
- Marylyn Cork Collection, Priest River Library
- Source Identifier:
- log7-03
- Type:
- Image;StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Language:
- eng
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Diamond Match Logging Train", Marylyn Cork Priest River Historical Collection, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/priestriver/items/priestriver0441.html
Rights
- Rights:
- In copyright, educational use permitted. Educational use includes non-commercial reproduction of text and images in materials for teaching and research purposes. Materials in this digital collection are not held by University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives. Please contact Priest River Library at library@westbonnerlibrary.org for information.
- Standardized Rights:
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