DATE: 1903
CREATOR: Hinchey, A.H.
SCOPE: This scrapbook, a gift to Mary Hinchey by cousin A. H. Hinchey, contains annotated photographs of logging operations in the Ozark Mountains pinewoods of Missouri. Photographs show the loggers themselves, skidways filled with felled trees, the rail operation to move the lumber from the camps (including an accident), the waterways of the Missouri pinewoods, camp offices, lumber mills, and other aspects of the lumber work-life.
Tipped into the scrapbook is a small photographic souvenir booklet from 1906 showing logging operation.
EXTENT: 1 scrapbook
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RESTRICTIONS: None
Preferred Citation note: The preferred citation for this collection is “From the Special Collections of the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri – St. Louis.”
