Browse Items (180 total)

  • Collection: Grand Traverse Region Historical Photograph Collection

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Lumber crew in front of remaining standing forest, ca. 1890. MR65-7.

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Lumber crew rolling logs with cant hooks, ca. 1950. MR65-16.

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Frank Verns Camp crew, 1896-1898. On back of photograph, "Armstrong Lake, near Oviatt (Benzie County). Aunt Nancy cooked here, Uncle Dale." Written on photograph, John Doren sitting in sled, Dale and Nancy near cookhouse. MR65-18.

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Fulgham Mill, Traverse City, ca. 1890. MR65-19.

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Lumber crew at Jacktown, 1895. Jacktown, or Osborn, was a small town in Empire Township, Leelanau County. MR65-8.

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Jacktown lumber crew with sled of logs, 1895. MR65-5. D. Roach is identified as many furthest to the right in the foreground.

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Empire lumber crew, 1895. Man second from left is identified as Ackerman. MR65-6.

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Old Brickyard at Keystone, ca. 1890. In Traverse City. MR65-21.

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Pete Stormer lumber crew, Peterville, Michigan, ca. 1898. Peterville was likely a short-lived lumber town. Handwritten note on photograph claims that Peterville was "Past Empire." MR65-17.

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Interior of cook shanty at lumber camp, ca. 1890. Location unknown, men unidentified. MR65-20.
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