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Employees of Duncan's Mills sawmill using a Dolbeer donkey steam engine to haul cut redwood trees, 1908

Title

Employees of Duncan's Mills sawmill using a Dolbeer donkey steam engine to haul cut redwood trees, 1908

Creation Date (Original)

1908

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Description

Photo--black and white: Employees of Duncan's Mills sawmill using a Dolbeer donkey steam engine to haul cut redwood trees. The loggers stand around the steam engine at the right and oxen to the left foreground. 1908 Photo Identified by Ralph Sturgeon as "Logging 101."

Item Format or Genre

["black-and-white photographs"]

Local History and Culture Theme

["Logging and Mining"]

Digital Collection Name(s)

["Western Sonoma County Historical Society Collection"]

Digital Collections Identifier

casebwsc_pho_010328

Item Details
Image Details

Item Details

Title

Employees of Duncan's Mills sawmill using a Dolbeer donkey steam engine to haul cut redwood trees, 1908

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Description

Creation Date (Original)

1908

Category

["8: Communication Artifact"]

Subcategory

["Documentary Artifact"]

Material Type (WSCHS)

["Print, Photographic"]

Item Type

["Still image"]

Item Format or Genre

["black-and-white photographs"]

Number of Parts or Pages

Other Physical Details

black-and-white

Local History and Culture Theme

["Logging and Mining"]

Subject (Time Period)

1900-1909

WSCHS Subject (Topical)

["Duncans Mills","1908","oxen","donkey","Dolbeer donkey steam engine","sawmills","lumber mills","logging","loggers"]

Country

["United States"]

State or Province

["California"]

California County

["Sonoma"]

District

["Duncans Mills"]

Street Address

Duncans Mills, California

Latitude

38.465058

Longitude

-123.053685

Geocoding Status

["Approximate geocoding"]

Source of Title and Description Note

Title supplied by cataloger

Original Collection Name

["Silvio DeCarly Collection"]

Credit Line

Courtesy of Walter Brian

Credit line

Courtesy, Western Sonoma County Historical Society

Local System Identifier

10328

Digital Collections Identifier

casebwsc_pho_010328

Digital Collection Name(s)

["Western Sonoma County Historical Society Collection"]

Digital Collections Area Group(s)

["Local History & Culture"]

Accession #

10-814

Original/Copy Note

Copy

Shelving Location of Physical Item(s)

WSCHS Archives: Rack A: Shelf 4: Box 2

Copyright Statement

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