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Steam mill sawing salvaged hurricane-felled timber; Adams-Fay Lot (TS IX)

• HF-ID: HFH-0614
• Category: Visual Materials
• Creator: Cline, A.C.
• Date: January 1939
• Location: Tom Swamp Tract (Harvard Forest), TS IX
• Media: Photographs and negatives
• Contents:
  • 4 black and white photos: 2157, 2158, 2159, 2160 - 5"x7" (modern photographic prints by Lasting Memories of Gardner, MA).
  • 4 negatives: 2157n, 2158n, 2159n, 2160n - 2.5"x3.25".

• Keywords: hurricane damage, lumbering, sawmills
• Abstract:
  • McGinnis steam mill sawing pine and hemlock blown down in hurricane of Sept 21, 1938 and purchased by Nelson and Mann of Athol.

• Related Items:
  • Historical photo 2157: McGinnis steam mill
  • Historical photo 2158: Vehicles around McGinnis steam mill
  • Historical photo 2159: Sawdust pile at the McGinnis steam mill
  • Historical photo 2160: McGinnis steam mill

• Archives Location: Historical Photographs Box 4, Tom Swamp IX
• Access: Active
• Administrative Notes:
  • Original HF-ID: 2157n/2158n/2159n/2160n