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Views of logging at Towle Brothers Lumber Company near Dutch Flat, Calif. [graphic]
BANC PIC 19xx.325--PICLOCAL
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Title:
Views of logging at Towle Brothers Lumber Company near Dutch Flat, CalifAbstract:
Includes a view of the Towle Brothers Lumber Company's Little Bear Valley sawmill and pond, and two views of logs being transported
via a team of ten oxen and the company's private narrow-gauge railroad.
Date:
ca. 1883 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caTowle Brothers Lumber Company -- Pictorial works
Logging -- California -- Placer County -- Photographs
Narrow gauge railroads -- California -- Photographs
Sawmills -- California -- Placer County -- Photographs
Logging railroads -- California -- Photographs
Dutch Flat (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Note:
Title supplied by cataloger.
Photographer unknown. Possibly taken in conjunction with the August 18, 1883 Placer Times article about the mill.
The Towle Bros. Lumber Company was located in Dutch Flat, Placer County. The Little Bear Valley sawmill was twelve miles from
Dutch Flat, past Towles Station where logs were shipped via the Central Pacific Railroad Company.
Type:
graphicAlbumen prints.
Physical Description:
graphic
photoprint
3 photographic prints : albumen ; 11 x 19 cm.
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC PIC 19xx.325--PICLOCAL