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Title
Greased pig contest at Camp One of Morgan Lumber and Cedar Company
Institution
Dickinson County Library

Subject
Lumber camps

Subject
Pigs

Subject
Portraits, Group

Item Number
AF01a174

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 a greased pig contest for the lumberjacks at Camp One of the Morgan Lumber and Cedar Company near Foster City during the teens. The lumberjack at the far right attempting to capture the pig may have been named DuFresne. The four men in the background are standing on the backs of some of the camp's horses to get a better view of the fun.

Greased pig contest at Camp One of Morgan Lumber and Cedar Company

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