Logging in the vicinity of Pigot Bay, Prince William Sound. Logger is using a Caterpillar bulldozer with an attached lifting arm to move logs into place to form a log raft. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 4 1/2".
Logging in vicinity of Pigot Bay. Three men standing on shore, surveying a raft of logs floating in the bay. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 4 1/2".
Harold Pomeroy and Roxalana Skobelska process lumber in a sawmill in Alaska. A large pile of sawdust and a stack of lumber are visible in the foreground. 1952. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Title adapted from verso. This postcard shows a sawmill in winter. A log boom is pulled into shore, logs are also stacked on the ground in front of the mill. A man is standing near some packhorses on the right of the image. From image: "Seward,...
Title from sleeve. Three men stand next to helicopter. Man in hard hat leans on helicopter while photographer Steve McCutcheon takes notes. Photographer's number: 4781. 2 1/4 B&W negative.
Title taken from verso. View of lumber at Holman Sawmill, Copper Center, Alaska, along the Valdez-Fairbanks Trail. 1908. Postcard. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 5 1/2".
On verso: Edward Barnes arrived in Wrangell around 1864 or 1865; Barnes Bros started logging in vicinity of Wrangell with ox teams around 1897 (J. M. Wyckoff, "Lumbering in Alaska," August 1923 Pathfinder)
Spruce logs, harvested from West Coast of Prince of Wales Island, float in rafts; a man measures one of the logs; houses line shore in background Photographer's number 189811