Sleigh of Logs
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- A load of logs being taken to the banking grounds. The development of rutters and water sprinklers to maintain the sled tracks enabled the woodsmen to haul heavier loads. A rutter was a devise that attached to a log sled runner and cleared the ruts in the road for the sleigh to follow.
- Notes
- Information taken from "Lumbering in Michigan" by Maria Quinlan.
- Date of Original
- c 1896
- Dimensions
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Width: 7623 px
Height: 6298 px
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 7623px
Image Height: 6298px
- Subject(s)
- Collection
- Fletcher Collection
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Michigan, United States
Latitude: 45.03334 Longitude: -83.64998
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- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to United States law. No restrictions on use.
- Recommended Citation
- Fletcher Collection, Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library
- Contact
- Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public LibraryEmail:specialcollections@alpenalibrary.org
Website:
Agency street/mail address:211 N. First Ave.
Alpena, Michigan 49707
USA
(989)356-6188
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