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    A 16 mm film from the 1920s showing a family's life on a ranch or farm in the Alpena County Area.

    Alpena News Photograph Collection contains images created as a part of local news' endeavors to cover Alpena County news. This photojournalistic resource provides primary source documents on the city

    This is the scan of the original book that includes actual photographs.

    Adam's Bookstore, publisher of this postcard, provided Alpena souvenirs for many years.

    Logs on a sled being pulled by horses. Sprinkling water on the road and allowing it to freeze made the sled easier to pull.

    Logging operation with loggers, horses, and log piles.

    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.

    Log Sleigh on Ice Road

    Interior view of Churchill logging camp bunkhouse showing "breech loading" bunks and a box heat stove.

    People standing outside lumber camp buildings during winter.

    Skidding logs using a steam driven donkey engine.

    Men posing on log piles.

    Load of logs being pulled out of forest by horse team.

    Loggers peeling bark from trees. This was usually done with cedar and hemlock trees. Tannin was extracted from hemlock bark to be used in the leather tanning process.

    Information taken from "Lumbering in Michigan" by Maria Quinlan.

    Information taken from "Lumbering in Michigan" by Maria Quinlan.

    A team of oxen being used in a logging operation. Oxen were more commonly used is Southern Michigan and were eventually replaces with horses. Oxen were often preferred to horses, because they could b

    A cook shack at the sire of a logging operation. There was usually a head cook, assistants, and a "chore boy." Three meals a day were served with lunch being taken to the men in the woods.

    Teams of horses hauling logs.

    The banking grounds (on the banks of the river) were where logs were hauled prior to being put in the river to be sent to the sawmill.