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Hurricane timber salvage activities; Tom Swamp Tract

• HF-ID: HFH-0951
• Category: Visual Materials
• Creator: Rowlands, W.
• Date: 1939
• Location: Tom Swamp Tract (Harvard Forest), TS VI
• Media: Photographs
• Contents:
  • 22 black and white photos: 2214 (2 copies), 2215 (2 copies), 2216a (2 copies), 2216b (2 copies), 2217 (2 copies), 2218a (2 copies), 2218b (2 copies), 2219 (2 copies), 2220-a (2 copies), 2220-b (2 copies), 2220c (2 copies) - 5"x5".

• Keywords: hurricane damage, sawmills
• Abstract:
  • 2214. Baker's steam sawmill at edge of Harvard Pond.
  • 2215. Sawdust heap at Baker's sawmill.
  • 2216. Baker's sawmill and sawdust heap.
  • 2217. Log rollway used by NETSA to scale salvaged hurricane timber.
  • 2218. Runway for bringing logs to jack chain.
  • 2218. Wet storage of hurricane timber purchased by NETSA.
  • 2219. Government lumber yard, south side State Highway 122, near Baker's mill.
  • 2220-a. Transient mill worker's camp.
  • 2220-b. Transient mill worker's camp.
  • 2220-c. Transient mill worker's camp.
  • [NETSA is the Northeastern Timber Salvage Administration]

• Related Items:
  • Historical photo 2220-b: Transient Mill Worker Camp in Tom Swamp VI 1940

• Archives Location: 1938 Hurricane Photograph File Hurricane Folder - 530
• Access: Active
• Administrative Notes:
  • Original HF-ID: 2214p/2215p/2216p/2217p/2218p/2219p/2220-ap/2220-bp.
  • 2220-a: olvwork410631
  • 2220-b: olvwork410632