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    Looking Southwest across the Thunder Bay River from the Paper Company.

    View of lumbering operations along the Thunder Bay River. The three-story building with the cupola is the earlier Alpena County Court House located between Eight and Ninth Avenues.

    Two sled loads of logs.

    The Library holds an extensive collection of Richardson Lumber Company Records. See the Harris/Richardson Collection in Special Collections.

    "Tug RALPH and Log Rafts below Bridge, 1900"

    Ties were railroad ties.

    The sorting gap was where logs were sorted according to owner by reading the mark on the end of each log.

    The sorting gap was where logs were sorted according to owner by reading the mark on the end of each log. The logs were then sent to the relevant mills.

    In order to make it easier to pull this gigantic load of logs, a water sprinkler tank wet the roadway to create a surface of ice.