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McDonald's logging camp showing team of oxen hauling logs over skidroad, near Kenmore, 1887
McDonald's logging camp showing team of oxen hauling logs over skidroad, near Kenmore, 1887
TitleMcDonald's logging camp showing team of oxen hauling logs over skidroad, near Kenmore, 1887
PhotographerWarner, Arthur Churchill, 1864-1943
Date1887
NotesCaption accompanying image states: Logging with oxen at N. end of Lake Washington -- McDonald's Camp -- near Kenmore, 12 miles from Seattle, in 1887. The "Cross-Pole" road shows how logs were kept from cutting into the ground. They were put into Lake Washington, and probably through the "Chute" into Lake Union, then 9 feet lower than Lake Washington.

On verso of image: N. end of Lk. Wash. McDonald's Camp near Kenmore, 1887. Warner & Randolph, Room 71 Hinckley Bld'g, cor. 2nd & Columbia Sts., Seattle, Wash.

Warner [4017]

Filed in General series.
Subjects (LCTGM)Logs; Skid roads--Washington (State)--Kenmore; 0x teams--Washington (State)--Kenmore; Lumber industry--Washington (State)--Kenmore; Loggers
Location DepictedUnited States--Washington (State)--Kenmore
Digital CollectionArthur Churchill Warner Photographs
Order NumberWAR0573
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RepositoryUniversity of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
Repository CollectionArthur Churchill Warner Photograph Collection. PH Coll 273
Object TypePhotograph
Physical Descriptionb&w
Digital Reproduction InformationScanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2004.
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