Contributed by Island Falls Historical Society
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Description
Emerson Logging Company operation. In the foreground are logs layed across Swift Brook during the winter when the water was low. These logs served as staging for logs brought down by sled and yarded in preparation for the spring's high water that would carry the logs down river.
About This Item
- Title: Emerson Logging Company, Stacyville, ca. 1895
- Creation Date: circa 1895
- Subject Date: circa 1895
- Location: Swift Brook, Stacyville, Penobscot County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 13 cm x 19 cm
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Booms (Log transportation)--Maine
- Log transportation--Maine
- Emerson Lumber Company
- Lumber industry--Maine--Stacyville
- Loggers--Maine
- Log driving--Maine
- Yarding (Logging)--Maine
- Swift Brook (Me.)
- Streams--Maine
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Island Falls Historical SocietyPO Box 204, Island Falls, ME 04747
(207) 267-1238
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