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Title
Logging ox team on skid road, California, ca.1900
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of logging ox team on skidroad. Five lumberjacks watch over 4 pairs of oxen dragging a large log through the forest. Pioneering lumber operation used in the early days of logging. Multiple teams of oxen were used to snake logs out of the hills. Later logging railroads and steam-driven tractors were used.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w
17 x 22 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12167
USC-1-1-1-12320 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-826
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12167
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-826.jpg
Subject
Industry--Lumbering
Lumber
Forests and forestry
Wood products
Woods
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California
USA
Source
1-108-5 [Microfiche number]
826 [Accession number]
CHS-826 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]

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