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[Hauling logs to Railway, Keystone Lumber Co.] – Vintage Print

[Hauling logs to Railway, Keystone Lumber Co.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Hauling logs to Railway, Keystone Lumber Co.], [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Railroads & Depots collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Crews hauling logs toward a railway siding give this scene its focus, the slow work of moving timber from the woods to the cars that would carry it to market. The title names the Keystone Lumber Co., but the record does not say where the camera stood. The glass negative dates from roughly 1900 to 1910, when the Detroit Publishing Company was issuing many western views, some tied to railroad promotion, and logging lines like this one fed sawmills across the Rocky Mountain region. The State Historical Society of Colorado donated the negative in 1949.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.Photographic prints Reproductions
NotesTitle from jacket. Photograph of photo from unidentified source. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043158. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 784 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70144

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