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Hall and Bishop Logging Company operations showing loggers and horses at a loading site, probably in or near Gettysburg
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| Title | Hall and Bishop Logging Company operations showing loggers and horses at a loading site, probably in or near Gettysburg |
| Date | ca. 1905 |
| Earliest Date | 1900 |
| Latest Date | 1910 |
| Notes | Note accompanying this photograph (from an unknown source): Logging at Hall and Bishop at Gettysburg, WA. AXTELL Photo no. 106 , Bert Mills leaning on horse. Cliff Johnson, donkey operator. The horse was the ""line horse"", use for hauling lines back from the steam donkey, the donkey was a single drum and could only pull one-way, so the horse was used to drag the cables back to reset logs.
Note accompanying the Mennihan photograph collection (from an unknown source): The contributor of this collection of photographs, Edward J. Mennihan, was born in 1914. His father, Michael E. 'Bud' Mennihan was born in 1883 near Sequim, WA. His parents were Michael E. and Rachel Mennihan. They moved to the Lyre River area, establishing a homestead shortly after 1883. Michael (Jr.) began working for the Hall and Bishop Logging Company in 1900, when he was 17 years old. His brothers and a half-brother Cliff Johnson, and his brother-in-law, Burt Mills, also worked for the Hall and Bishop Logging Company. |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Loggers--Washington (State)--Clallam County
Horses--Washington (State)--Clallam County
Donkey engines--Washington (State)--Clallam County
Lumber industry--Washington (State)--Clallam County
Logs--Washington (State)--Clallam County
Forests--Washington (State)--Clallam County
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| Personal Names | Johnson, Cliff
Mills, Bert |
| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Olympic Peninsula--Clallam County |
| Digital Collection | Edward J. Mennihan Photograph Collection |
| Ordering Information | Items cannot be ordered. |
| Owner | Edward J. Mennihan |
| Physical Description | 1 photograph : b&w |
| Digital Image Information | All images scanned on a flatbed scanner between 600-800 ppi, saved as a TIFF, then edited in Photoshop 8.0, where the image was re-sized, dynamic range was adjusted, a sharpening filter was applied and finally saved as a JPEG. |
| Image File Name | minihan 11 |
| Changes to data? | To submit changes to the data for this item, click here: http://content.lib.washington.edu/cmpweb/suggestions.html |
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