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Description
Workers unloaded logs from a truck onto the ice at Lake Pennesseewassee, staging them on the frozen lake for transport by stream to a mill, following the spring ice melt.
The Northeastern Timber Salvage Administration oversaw the salvage logging efforts in the aftermath of the New England Hurricane of 1938.
About This Item
- Title: Unloading logs, Lake Pennesseewassee, 1939
- Creator: U.S. Forest Service. Northeastern Timber Salvage Administration.
- Creation Date: 1939
- Subject Date: 1939
- Location: Lake Pennesseewassee, Norway, Oxford County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Local Code: NAID #5313453, Box 1, 35/16/7
- Collection: Record Group 95: Records of the U.S. Forest Service; Records Related to Timber Salvage, 1938-1941
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Brown Company
- Log transportation
- Logging--Maine--Norway
- Lumber industry--Maine--Norway
- Maine Forestry District
- oggers--Maine--Norway
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