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Text		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. (Relevance: 631) Find Similar Resources	Booms (log transportation) Log brands Log driving Lumbering Lumbering Recreation/Tourism

Text		Penobscot Indian Treaty of 1820; copies of letters Maine State Archives, Text Several letters regarding the 1820 Penobscot Indian Treaty. (Relevance: 616) Find Similar Resources	Indians of North America Land tenure Indians of North America Treaties Conflict-Stability: control of Maine, land disputes, French-English-Indians Indians -- land rights Native Americans Land Disputes

Text		Two petitions regarding the construction of a dam across the Kennebec River Maine State Archives, Text Two petitions giving reasons for and against the proposed dam across the Kennebec River. (Relevance: 602) Find Similar Resources	Dams Dams Environment: Fur trade, survival, industrial development, forest, conservation Kennebec River Ecology/Energy Fishing/Fisherman Industry Lumbering Rivers Shipping/Shipbuilding

Still Image		Shoring Logs Maine Folklife Center, Still Image Photograph of a group of men shoring logs during a river drive on the Wassataquoick River. Shoring logs was a process of moving logs off of the shore and back into the river. (Relevance: 552) Find Similar Resources	Log driving Lumbering Lumbering Rivers

Text		History of Penobscot Indians Fogler Special Collections, Text Account of the "History of Penobscot Indians" by Florence Nicola Shay (Relevance: 550) Find Similar Resources	Native Americans -- History Penobscot Indian Nation Penobscot Tribe

Still Image		Group photo with log mark Maine Folklife Center, Still Image Photograph of the scaler and two other men and two dark horses are standing in back of a large log marked 'N'. Log marks were used to identify the logs cut by various companies along the same river. These marks were then used in order to sort the logs at the end of the spring river drive. (Relevance: 543) Find Similar Resources	Log brands Lumbering Lumbering

Still Image		Lombard Log Hauler with Loaded Two-sleds Maine Folklife Center, Still Image Photograph of a Lombard log hauler towing a string of loaded two-sleds. One man driving, three alongside. From the Grindstone, Maine, operations of the Jordan Lumber Company. Lombard log haulers had steam engines and were used as a means of transporting logs in the woods. They had an advantage over horses and oxen in that they could tow many more two-sleds loaded with logs than any team. (Relevance: 529) Find Similar Resources	Log transportation Lumbering Lumbering Mechanization

Moving Image		Lumbering in Maine Student Productions, Moving Image Photographs showing crew chopping spruce logs, group of men loading logs on two-sled, J. E. Smart's logging crew eating lunch, lombard log hauler, log drive in Allegash, log jam above falls, and picking jam with a batteau, etc. (Relevance: 527) Find Similar Resources	Lumbering -- Maine Lumbermen -- Maine Sawmills -- Maine Boats and boating -- Maine Quality of work life -- Maine Lumber camps -- Maine Lumber trade -- Maine

Moving Image		Last Log Drive Down the Kennebec Northeast Historic Film, Moving Image Produced by Maine PBS, Joan Young sets the stage for the last log drive down the Kennebec River in Maine. Scott Paper Company's 1976 drive from Moosehead Lake to their Winslow mill is featured. Includes interviews with mill officials, woods workers, river drivers, and politicians about the impact the final drive on jobs, the environment, and highway safety. (Relevance: 519) Find Similar Resources	Lumbering Rivers Environmental policy, Logging industry, Rivers

Moving Image		From Stump to Ship Northeast Historic Film, Moving Image, 00:28:17 Depicts the year-round activities of the Machias Lumber Company on the Machias River in Washington County, Maine. Includes scenes of winter logging in the forest with hand tools and horses, as well as the spring log drive, with loggers using peaveys to break up log jams on icy rivers as the logs are moved from the forest to the mill. Lumber is also loaded onto schooners in Machias for transport to New York. (Relevance: 512) Find Similar Resources	Logging -- Maine -- History Lumbering Rivers

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