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1. 2000-0014-0299 - Escola Collection

   Crew felling a redwood, Glen Blair. IDs on back: Bill Ross, John Van Nader, Alex Grant, John Dakken. [Image: f#342 ]

   Record Type: Photo

   
2. Carving - 1972-0001-0001

   Wooden Chain: made from a single piece of redwood. Hand Carved by an early logger, "Logger's art". At one time it was eight feet long. At each end of chain is a 190mm. long rectangle, pointed at one end of each chain, link at the other end. All links in the chain are 20mm. wide and deep. Every link has a leaf carved on it plus other designs.

   Record Type: Object

   
3. Timberland treasures : voices of the mill camp kids and friends - Milam, Karen Branscomb

   " During the logging and saw-milling days of the early to mid-1900s, the remote and challenging landscape of northwestern Mendocino County, California, was home to all the joys and hardships that reflected the best and worst of human nature. Now, "Timberland Treasures" brings those days alive with seventy-five life histories and hundreds of photos of the kids raised in the lumber-mill camps and timber communities."

   Record Type: Library

   
4. Walking tractor and other tales of Old Anderson Valley - Patterson, Bruce

   These twenty-five stories offer glimpses into Patterson's life in the Redwood country of California's Anderson Valley, and into his work as a logger, woodcutter, and farmer, which he did for thirty years. Patterson's vivid stories brim with such colorful "fighters" as Billy Bones, a hermit-like eccentric with "pre-industrial hygiene," more Gollum than man, and Lester Seymour, a famous "catskinner" (bulldozer operator) who taught the twenty-five...

   Record Type: Library