Contributed by National Archives at Boston
Description
A worker directs a horse to "twitch" or pull a salvage log from the forest to a landing site near Norway, Maine.
The activities depicted were part of the salvage logging process conducted by the Northeastern Timber Salvage Administration in the aftermath of the New England Hurricane of 1938.
About This Item
- Title: Twitching logs out of woods, Norway, 1939
- Creator: U.S. Forest Service. Northeastern Timber Salvage Administration.
- Creation Date: 1939
- Subject Date: 1939
- Location: Norway, Oxford County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Local Code: NAID #5313453, Box 2, 35/16/7
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Horses--Logging
- Maine Forestry District
- Lumber industry--Maine--Norway
- Brown Company
- Logging--Maine--Norway
- Lumber industry--Maine--Norway
- Log transportation
- Draft animials--Maine--Norway
- Loggers--Maine--Norway
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