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Cypress logging scene in Atchafalaya Basin, Southern Louisiana. In the foreground Cypress logs made into raft. Sinker logs held up by method shown in picture. Stern wheel tow-boat in background. Between raft and tow-boat is seen a mass of water hyacinths, a pest which causes a great deal of trouble on the bayous of this region. The water hyacinths were introduced from some foreign country forty years ago or more. Since then it has spread throughout the streams and obstructs navigation more or less. It has to be cleared at frequent intervals at considerable cost

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Title: Cypress logging scene in Atchafalaya Basin, Southern Louisiana. In the foreground Cypress logs made into raft. Sinker logs held up by method shown in picture. Stern wheel tow-boat in background. Between raft and tow-boat is seen a mass of water hyacinths, a pest which causes a great deal of trouble on the bayous of this region. The water hyacinths were introduced from some foreign country forty years ago or more. Since then it has spread throughout the streams and obstructs navigation more or less. It has to be cleared at frequent intervals at considerable cost
Creator: Mason, D. T
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Date Created and/or Issued: 1919
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bioscience & Natural Resources Library
Collection: Fritz-Metcalf Photograph Collection
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Description: Location: average distance
Identification: exact ground location unclear, appears unknowable
No people present in picture
Type: image
Identifier: fritz_metcalf-2281
Subject: Log transportation - Rafts
Atchafalaya Basin (La.)
Eichhornia sp
Louisiana
Taxodium sp
Louisiana
Place: Louisiana

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