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An Act Regulating the Rafting of Logs on the Kennbec River
Fogler Special Collections, Text

An Act Regulating the Rafting of Logs on the Kennbec River. A pamphlet reprinting the legislative act that regulated the use of the Kennebec River for log driving.

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Interview with Ernest Kennedy
Maine Folklife Center, Sound

Selection from an interview with Ernest Kennedy conducted by Elizabeth Warner and Jack Beard. In the selection, Kennedy briefly describes the operation of a sorting boom. He describes how logs coming down the river are chosen by a checker based on their log marks, and sent to shore to be rafted with other logs belonging to the same company.

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Memorandum of Lumber through Main and Argyle Booms
Fogler Special Collections, Text

Memorandum Return of the Different marks, prices in feet of Lumber that has passed through the Main & Argyle Booms on the Penobscot River, ending June 30th, 1858.

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Payroll Records, Penobscot Lumbering Association
Fogler Special Collections, Text

One sheet of payroll records from Penobscot Lumbering Association--includes number of days worked per man, amount paid to and owed to him, and his signature (or mark). Some of these men show a lack of ability to write, as evidenced by their lack of ability to sign their names. Instead, their names were written by a clerk and they put their X between first and last name.

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