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"We'll Show 'Em How to Fell Big Trees" - 1903
$25.00 As low as: $12.00"We'll Show 'Em how to Fell Big Trees", from a Keystone novelty glass slide. Learn More -
A Logging Foreman Admires his Crew's Output - c. 1898
$25.00 As low as: $12.00Almost lost in the center of this giant pile of toothpicks is the foreman of the logging operation, posing on top of one of many large logs awaiting transport to a mill. Learn More -
A Small Steam Donkey Near Sandy - c. 1910
$25.00 As low as: $12.00Two loggers take it easy while reclining on the cable spools of a steam donkey in this postcard view of logging in the Sandy area. Learn More -
A Young Logger in a Log Chute - c. 1905
$25.00 As low as: $12.00While not signed by Ford, the original for this photo was acquired with other similarly formatted photos that were signed by him. Learn More -
At Work in the Woods - c. 1898
$25.00 As low as: $12.00Four men - and a dog - pose near medium-sized trees in an unknown location, probably on one side or the other of the lower Columbia River, where John F. Ford took many of his photographs. Learn More -
Bringing the Logs Back to Camp - c. 1900
$25.00 As low as: $12.00Smaller logs are brought back to a logging camp by a team of six mules, pulling them along a skid-road of logs placed across the path. It appears that this logging camp also was home to a small sawmill, as stacked lumber can be seen behind the team. Learn More -
Camp No. 2, Yeon and Pelton Company - c. 1902
$25.00 As low as: $12.00This group portrait of the logging crew at Camp 2 includes some other important people - the camp cook and several assistants. Learn More -
Choker Setters at Work, Deep in the Woods - c. 1898
$25.00 As low as: $12.00Chokers are lengths of cable with a sliding bell that are wrapped around logs in the woods, to allow them to be pulled out to the yard. In the era of this photo, power was provided by a steam donkey. Learn More -
Closeup of a Double-drum Steam Donkey - c. 1898
$25.00 As low as: $12.00Steam donkeys acquired their name from their origin on sailing ships, where the "donkey" engine was a secondary engine used to load and unload cargo, or raise the larger sails. Learn More -
Double-drum Steam Donkey Crew - c. 1898
$25.00 As low as: $12.00Taken at a different location than most of our John Ford logging photographs, this view gives us a good look at the men and equipment involved in steam-powered logging over a century ago. Learn More -
Eight on a Log - c. 1900
$25.00 As low as: $12.00How many ways can you pose a group of loggers? John F. Ford is known for his gift of creating poses that are artistically and visually interesting. Learn More -
Finishing a Log Raft on the Columbia River - c. 1900
$25.00 As low as: $12.00This well-composed view of a cigar-shaped log raft was taken by John Ford on the lower Columbia, the area where he created most of his photos. Learn More -
Hauling Logs out with Mules - c. 1900
$25.00 As low as: $12.00Oxen and steam donkeys were the primary ways to bring logs out of the woods during this era, but mule teams and horses were sometimes used, especially for smaller logs. Learn More -
High-lead Yarding, Deer Island Logging Company - c. 1925
$25.00 As low as: $12.00By the 1920s, high-lead logging had replaced ground-lead logging for many operations in the Pacific Northwest. Both utilized steam donkeys to power cables pulling logs to the yarding area. Learn More -
Hoisting Logs from Pond to Mill at Palmer - 1905
$25.00 As low as: $12.00At the Palmer Mill uphill from Bridal Veil, logs from the pond were hoisted by a power conveyor to the second floor to be rough-cut into timbers as their first step towards becoming finished lumber. Learn More -
Horse Logging near Bridal Veil - 1890s
$25.00 As low as: $12.00The photographer's title "Logging Near Bridal Veil" probably refers to the Columbia Gorge logging town of Bridal Veil, rather than the waterfall. Learn More -
Jack Screw Men and Steam Donkey - c. 1898
$25.00 As low as: $12.00The crew that uses the screw jacks to maneuver logs poses here in the yard in front of a covered steam donkey. Learn More -
Jack Screw Men Yarding a Large Log - c. 1898
$25.00 As low as: $12.00A very old logging tool, the jack screw was used to move heavy logs, either in the woods to position them for hauling by oxen (and later by steam donkeys), or in the yards to roll the logs into position. Learn More -
Log Chute with Ox Teams - 1890s
$25.00 As low as: $12.00The original title for this magic lantern glass slide was simply "Log Shute, Oregon, U.S.A." Learn More -
Log Raft from Oregon Arrives in San Diego - 1929
$25.00 As low as: $12.00Most photos of sea-going log rafts show them being prepared to leave Oregon. This view shows a raft after it has arrived at its destination. Learn More -
Logging "Roll Way", with Tracks, Yard & Steam Donkey - c. 1898
$25.00 As low as: $12.00A good overview of many aspects of a turn-of-the-last-century logging operation, captured here by Portland photographer John F. Ford. Learn More -
Logging Crew & Steam Donkey near Sandy - c. 1910
$25.00 As low as: $12.00The crew relaxes for their photo for a postcard by H. M. Douglass, part of a set of three logging scenes from the Sandy, Oregon area. Learn More -
Logging Crew with Oxen & Steam Donkey - c. 1900
$25.00 As low as: $12.00This turn-of-the-last-century view shows a logging crew using both ox teams and a steam donkey to move their logs. It appears the oxen brought the logs down the slope, and then the steam donkey pulled them along a more level skid road to this staging area. Learn More -
Logging Crew with Their Steam Donkey - c. 1898
$25.00 As low as: $12.00Everyone gets into the picture in this John Ford photo of a double-drum steam donkey. It's likely summer, as the crew hasn't bothered with a roof for the operators. Learn More -
Logjam on the Upper Willamette - c. 1900
$25.00 As low as: $12.00Two steamboats arrive to help clear out a logjam under a bridge somewhere on the upper Willamette River. Learn More -
Oregon Water Power & Railway Cars at Logging Camp - c. 1905
$25.00 As low as: $12.00This rural-looking scene is likely somewhere in east Multnomah County, along the line of the O. W. P. & Ry. Company, a name that lasted for only four years in the early 1900s. Learn More -
Overview of a Small Saw Mill near Sandy - c. 1910
$25.00 As low as: $12.00The original caption for this photo called it a "Typical Sandy Saw Mill", and it's likely there were a number of small, homestead-based mills like it in the Sandy area. Learn More -
Palmer to Bridal Veil Lumber Flume - 1904
$25.00 As low as: $12.00If you have both water and gravity, a flume is an ideal way to move logs or lumber from the top to the bottom of a hill. Learn More -
Pond Monkey Guides Logs from Pond to Chute - 1939
$25.00 As low as: $12.00The "pond monkey" position in a sawmill has been described as the next-to-the-last step in a logging career; the last being night watchman. Learn More -
Pond Monkeys - c. 1898
$25.00 As low as: $12.00Pond Monkeys were men who hopped from log to log in a mill pond, guiding the floating logs into the intake for the sawmill. This Ford photos shows a large group - likely more than would normally work together. Learn More -
Pondering an Accident on the Benson Logging Train - c. 1900
$25.00 As low as: $12.00In this wonderfully detailed John F. Ford photo, a group of concerned workers discuss their next move after a large log has broken loose and severely damaged the firewood tender for the Benson Logging & Lumber Company train. Learn More -
Preparing to Saw Up a Newly Felled Tree - c. 1898
$25.00 As low as: $12.00While this is a staged photo, the logger in front is demonstrating the actual saw that he will use for "sawing up", the process of cutting the felled tree into lengths that can be transported to a mill. Learn More -
Pulling a Snag with a Caterpillar 60 - c. 1925
$25.00 As low as: $12.00These five men seem to be enjoying themselves as they pull a large snag through an Alder grove near Buena Vista, using one of the earliest successful bulldozers -- the Best or Caterpillar 60 horsepower model. Learn More -
Saldern's Logging Road, 13 1/2 Percent Grade - c. 1898
$25.00 As low as: $12.00Climax Engine Number 2 works to push three large logs up a steep grade near Grays River in southwest Washington. Learn More -
Sawing Up - c. 1898
$25.00 As low as: $12.00Falling big trees was only the beginning. It took many more hours to saw up each tree - to cut it into sections that could be hauled back to the yard, using cables from a steam donkey. Learn More -
Sawmill Gang and Mill at Round Lake - c. 1905
$25.00 As low as: $12.00The muddy yard hints at the Pacific Northwest location of this small mill near Round Lake, north of Camas, Washington in Clark County. The term "gang" comes from the handwritten title on the original photo. Learn More -
Skid Road Along the River - c. 1898
$25.00 As low as: $12.00In this signed photo by John F. Ford we see yet another view of animals pulling logs along a skid road. In this case, it's oxen, and the location of the road along a river makes it especially scenic. Learn More -
Sledding a Large Log near Elgin - c. 1905
$25.00 As low as: $12.00Winter was a good time to move large logs; the ground was frozen hard and skids moved smoothly across the snow. Learn More -
Soldiers in Hoquiam Logging Camp - 1918
$25.00 As low as: $12.00Starting in 1917 the Army sent 10,000 soldiers to Oregon and Washington logging camps to cut timber as part of an effort to harvest 10 million board-feet of spruce a month for aircraft construction. Learn More -
Steam Donkey Under a Small Shed - c. 1898
$25.00 As low as: $12.00Another in a series of detailed logging photos by John F. Ford, this view shows the type of small shed often constructed around steam donkeys to protect the operators (and the machinery) from the worst of the weather. Learn More -
Sternwheelers M. F. Henderson & Shaver with Log Raft - c. 1905
$25.00 As low as: $12.00The two named sternwheelers escort a large log raft down the Columbia at the beginning of its voyage in the Pacific, probably to San Diego. while three and four masted sailing ships wait in the background. Learn More -
The Crew Takes a Break, Deer Island Logging Company - c. 1925
$25.00 As low as: $12.00Crew members from the Deer Island Logging Company, on the Oregon side of the lower Columbia, pose on a recently-felled medium-sized fir tree, in this photo by Clark Kinsey. Learn More -
The Saldern Crew Pauses in a Cut on their Logging Road - c. 1898
$25.00 As low as: $12.00The logging crew poses in a substantial earth cut made for the logging railroad that supported their operation. It's not clear whether these men helped build the railroad grade as well as doing the logging. Learn More -
Two Timber Fallers Begin Their Saw Cut - c. 1898
$25.00 As low as: $12.00A classic scene - this photo shows two fallers standing on their springboards, starting their sawcut to fall a substantial Douglas Fir. Learn More -
Two Ways to Move Logs by Raiload - 1904
$25.00 As low as: $12.00This view demonstrates large logs can be pushed ahead of a steam engine, or pulled behind while loaded on flatcars. Learn More -
Willamette Steam Donkey, Deer Island Logging Company - c. 1925
$25.00 As low as: $12.00The Willamette was a popular brand of steam donkey for Northwest logging operations. From 1901 to 1930, over 3,000 of these workhorses were built in their Portland factory. Learn More -
Yarding the Big Logs - c. 1898
$25.00 As low as: $12.00This well organized yarding area run by Saldern Logging Company near Grays River, Washington, demonstrates how logging crews staged their large logs till they could be loaded on railroad cars for a trip to the mill. Learn More
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