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Wood hicks and bark peelers : a visual history of Pennsylvania's railroad lumbering communities ; the photographic legacy of William T. Clarke

Title
Wood hicks and bark peelers : a visual history of Pennsylvania's railroad lumbering communities ; the photographic legacy of William T. Clarke / Ronald E. Ostman and Harry Littell ; with an introduction by Linda A. Ries.
Author
Ostman, Ronald Elroy
Publication
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]

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Additional Authors
  • Littell, Harry
  • Clarke, W. T.
  • Ries, Linda A.
Description
xvii, 234 pages : illustrations; 24 x 28 cm
Summary
"Through the photography of William T. Clarke, explores the impact of the logging industry on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century north-central Pennsylvania"--Provided by publisher.
Subject
  • Clarke, W. T
  • Logging > Pennsylvania > History
  • Logging railroads > Pennsylvania > History
  • Loggers > Pennsylvania > History
  • Landscape photography > Pennsylvania > History
  • Landscape photography
  • Loggers
  • Logging
  • Logging railroads
  • Pennsylvania
Genre/Form
History.
Note
  • "A Keystone book."
  • "Published in collaboration with the Lumber Heritage Region of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-227) and index.
Contents
The black forest -- The machine in the garden -- Wood hicks, bark peelers, and other woods workers -- Camp life -- Community life -- The Pennsylvania desert -- A mighty transformation.
ISBN
  • 9780271072074
  • 0271072075
LCCN
2015046215
OCLC
  • ocn932116118
  • 932116118
  • SCSB-1868515
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library