Seven Men With Cart of Lumber in Empire, Michigan, 1895

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Title

Seven Men With Cart of Lumber in Empire, Michigan, 1895

Subject

Lumbering
Michigan Lumbering
Empire, Michigan
19th Century Lumbering
Leelanau County, Michigan

Description

Seven men in Empire, Michigan during the year 1895. Center right of the photograph is a train cart of lumber stopped on train tracks in a forest. Snow covers areas of the ground and some of the trees. Lumber is being loaded onto the cart by a team of two white horses facing away from the viewer and a man stands in the background with the horses turned to face the viewer. There is a man standing on a log near the top of the lumber pile. Five men stand around the cart, three stand with axes. The figure on the farthest right of the group of three men in the forefront of the photograph is identified by written description below the photograph as G. Roach.
Written on the bottom right corner of photograph is, " Empire Lumber...Jacktown - 1985."

Creator

Unknown

Source

Unknown

Publisher

Unknown

Date

1895

Contributor

Unknown

Rights

CC BY 4.0

Relation

Unknown

Format

TIFF

Language

English

Type

image

Identifier

MR65-5
2018.52.1

Coverage

Empire, Leelanau County, Michigan, United States

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

Black and white photograph

Physical Dimensions

width 6 5/8" x length 5 5/16"