Collection:
Lumbering Collection
Date:
ca 1890
Description:
White pine logs floated down the Pike River to a saw mill located south of Dave's Falls run by the Wright Brothers. The man in the photo is Louis Redeman, Superintendent for the Wright Bros.
Event:
Wright Bros. saw mill
Catalog Number:
0011.7.2
Object Name:
Print, Photographic
Place:
Amberg, WI
Print Size:
5 x 7
Search Terms:
Wright Brothers
Subjects:
Sawmills
Title:
White Pine
KID TALK:
Imagine felling the virgin white pine trees that were cut into huge logs, floated down and pulled out of the Pike River where they waited to be sawed into boards using a sawmill run by steam.
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White Pine
White Pine