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Title
Two men splitting out shakes from cedar logs to be used as shingles, 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 two men splitting out shakes from cedar logs to be used as shingles, in a thick forest, ca.1900. One man manually planes shingles behind another man who applies a large mallet to an iron wedge in a large cedar cross-section in the foreground. The immediate area is littered with pieces of wood.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w
17 x 22 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12163
USC-1-1-1-12316 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-3408
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12163
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-3408.jpg
Subject
Industry--Lumbering
Lumber
Forests and forestry
Wood products
Forests
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California
USA
Source
1-108-23 [Microfiche number]
3408 [Accession number]
CHS-3408 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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