Research Catalog
Lumbering in the Canadian northwest
- Title
- Lumbering in the Canadian northwest [graphic] / Will M. Harmer
- Author
- Harmer, Will M., 1859-1949
- Publication
- ca. 1900.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Still image | By appointment only | MFZ (Harmer) 93-6279 90PH011 (Accession number) | Schwarzman Building - Photography Collection Room 308 |
Details
- Description
- 12 photographic prints : albumen, b&w; 19 x 24 cm. or smaller.
- Summary
- Views of lumbering: "A Half-breed camp," showing women tending cooking fire and baby in cradleboard, children and man nearby; a log building in logging camp in snow; men using high-wheel, oxen and horses to move logs to railroad; men felling tree with two-man saw; making a saw log; the log dump, showing stacks of logs near icy river; men "starting the logs off on the 'drive'" by pulling them off the pile with rope and manipulating them in the water with peavies; logs emerging from a lumber chute; saw mill with raft of logs in water in foreground; stacks of lumber about 20 feet high with rail running between them; raft of square timber with shacks built on it, tugboat moored to it, town beyond.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Albumen prints.
- Photographic prints.
- Note
- Title derived from caption on verso.
- Photographer's and Picture Collection stamps on verso.
- Views are numbered in pencil on verso: 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13-14, 17-19.
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Provenance (note)
- Picture Collection transfer, 1990.
- Exhibitions (note)
- #2, "Half-breed camp," was exhibited in "400 Years of Native-American Portraits: Prints and Photographs from the Collections of the New York Public Library," 1992
- Call Number
- MFZ (Harmer) 93-6279
- OCLC
- NYPG93-F229
- Author
- Harmer, Will M., 1859-1949, photographer.
- Title
- Lumbering in the Canadian northwest [graphic] / Will M. Harmer
- Imprint
- ca. 1900.
- Restricted Access
- Restricted access; Photography Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Provenance
- Picture Collection transfer, 1990.
- Exhibitions
- #2, "Half-breed camp," was exhibited in "400 Years of Native-American Portraits: Prints and Photographs from the Collections of the New York Public Library," 1992
- Research Call Number
- MFZ (Harmer) 93-6279