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Title
Wm. A. Holmes & Son logging crew
Institution
Dickinson County Library

Subject
Logging

Subject
Log transportation

Subject
Locomotives

Item Number
AF01a154

Relation
Item also published with caption in: Dickinson County, Michigan : from earliest times through the Twenties / compiled and edited by William John Cummings. Iron Mountain, Mich. : Dickinson County Board of Commissioners, 1991. 432 p. : ill, maps, ports. ; 3

Description
Photograph of William A. Holmes & Son crew, logging just across what became the Dickinson County line in Section 26 of Township 43 North, Range 31 West. Note the primitive narrow gauge steam engine, a 9-ton wood burner, which was used to pull carloads of pine logs.

Wm. A. Holmes & Son logging crew

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