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

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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
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Rights:
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