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2000-0014-0003 - Escola Collection
Woman and little girl in long dresses stand in front of large, peeled redwood log. Other equally large logs can be partially seen.
Record Type: Photo
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2000-0014-0009 - Escola Collection
Standing coast redwood tree, fire-scarred, in the forest. Location: Gualala
Record Type: Photo
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2000-0014-0247 - Escola Collection
Logs at boom after freshet. Three men stand on log: L-R: Louie Larson in middle. Big River. [Image: f#289]
Record Type: Photo
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2000-0014-0280 - Escola Collection
Group stands next to large log cut into sections on Oppenlander Ranch. Dog lies on top of middle section. Names on back: #3-man w/ beard unknown; #4-Frank Chance; #5-Ida Oppenlander; #6-Lulu Oppenlander w/ daughter Wilma. The first two names on back of mount have been cut off. [Image: f#323]
Record Type: Photo
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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 ]
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A pioneer lumberman's story : autobiography of John Simpson Ross, II - Ross, John Simpson, II
An autobiography of John Simpson Ross, pioneer and lumberman.
Record Type: Library
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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
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Down to Earth: A Mendocino County Life - Tindall, Maurice W.
Down to Earth was a weekly newspaper column written by Maurice Tindall for the Anderson Valley Advertiser, Booneville, California. 1966-1977. The contents are columns and extracts of columns edited into a historical and narritive sequence.
Record Type: Library
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Glen Blair Redwood company and the Cleone tramway - Borden, Stanley T
A brief history of a short and short-lived logging railroad near Fort Bragg, in Mendocino County, California.
Record Type: Library
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History of Mendocino County Sawmills "Logger Language" - Carranco, Lynwood
This academic report focuses on the history of logging and sawmills of Mendocino County.
Record Type: Library
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Logging with ox teams : an epoch in ingenuity - Moungovan, Thomas O.
Monograph on early logging methods in Mendocino County, with emphasis on Ox Teams. Contents: Terms Used with Bull Team Logging Explained Early Day Logging How Bulls were Broken Redwood Trees Bull Teams on the Garcia Some of the Early Day Punchers
Record Type: Library
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QUILT - 1988-0005-0001
Two-sided pictorial banner; entered in Roots of Motive Power parade 7/4/88; appliqued with hand crewel work; hand quilted by donor. Bottom portion of quilts of both sides are labeled with hand crewel work: "Roots of Motive Power/Mendocino Co. Museum/Willits Calif/1988 Mavis Bromaghim" and "Compound Yarder/Steampowered/Used at North Fork Camp/Big River Circa - 1925-1930's". Dimensions: 114 cm. W x 182 cm. L
Record Type: Object
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Redwood and lumbering in California forests : a reconstruction of the original Edgar Cherry edition - Palmquist, Peter E.
"The Publishers, in presenting this work to the Public, feel confident that their endeavor will meet the wants of a large number of people, both on the Pacific Coast and abroad. The visitor in the heart of the Redwood belt invariably departs therefrom with a desire that he may take with him something suggestive of its grandeur and beauty. Without relying upon his memory or his descriptive faculty, for imparting to others what methods are employed...
Record Type: Library
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The Early History of the Mendocino Coast - Brinzing, Margaret Jane
This thesis focuses on the early history of the Mendocino Coast, from the Spanish navigators, to the lumbermen and loggers.
Record Type: Library
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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
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Tool, Lumber & Forest - 1986-0045-0010
One of two Chopping Axes used to trim limbs from logs, cut notches for springboards, etc. Wooden handle, 111cm long, double-bitted axe blade, 30.3cm long, "2" stamped on one side, blade painted black. Used in Mendocino woods.
Record Type: Object
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Tool, Lumber & Forest - 1986-0045-0010
One of two Chopping Axes used to trim limbs from logs, cut notches for springboards, etc. Wooden handle, 111cm long, double-bitted axe blade, 30.3cm long, "2" stamped on one side, blade painted black. Used in Mendocino woods.
Record Type: Object
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Tool, Lumber & Forest - 1986-0045-0011
Chopping Axe used to trim unwanted limbs and small underbrush, to make notches for springboards, etc. Wooden handle, 101.5cm long, double-bitted axe blade, 30.7cm long, blade painted black with "1.2" stamped on side. Used in Mendocino woods.
Record Type: Object
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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