Author: Ronald E. Ostman
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027108460X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
In Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers, Ronald E. Ostman and Harry Littell draw on the stunning documentary photography of William T. Clarke to tell the story of Pennsylvania’s lumber heyday, a time when loggers serving the needs of a rapidly growing and globalizing country forever altered the dense forests of the state’s northern tier. Discovered in a shed in upstate New York and a barn in Pennsylvania after decades of obscurity, Clarke’s photographs offer an unprecedented view of the logging, lumbering, and wood industries during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They show the great forests in the process of coming down and the trains that hauled away the felled trees and trimmed logs. And they show the workers—cruisers, jobbers, skidders, teamsters, carpenters, swampers, wood hicks, and bark peelers—their camps and workplaces, their families, their communities. The work was demanding and dangerous; the work sites and housing were unsanitary and unsavory. The changes the newly industrialized logging business wrought were immensely important to the nation’s growth at the same time that they were fantastically—and tragically—transformative of the landscape. An extraordinary look at a little-known photographer’s work and the people and industry he documented, this book reveals, in sharp detail, the history of the third phase of lumber in America.
Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers
Author: Ronald E. Ostman
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027108460X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
In Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers, Ronald E. Ostman and Harry Littell draw on the stunning documentary photography of William T. Clarke to tell the story of Pennsylvania’s lumber heyday, a time when loggers serving the needs of a rapidly growing and globalizing country forever altered the dense forests of the state’s northern tier. Discovered in a shed in upstate New York and a barn in Pennsylvania after decades of obscurity, Clarke’s photographs offer an unprecedented view of the logging, lumbering, and wood industries during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They show the great forests in the process of coming down and the trains that hauled away the felled trees and trimmed logs. And they show the workers—cruisers, jobbers, skidders, teamsters, carpenters, swampers, wood hicks, and bark peelers—their camps and workplaces, their families, their communities. The work was demanding and dangerous; the work sites and housing were unsanitary and unsavory. The changes the newly industrialized logging business wrought were immensely important to the nation’s growth at the same time that they were fantastically—and tragically—transformative of the landscape. An extraordinary look at a little-known photographer’s work and the people and industry he documented, this book reveals, in sharp detail, the history of the third phase of lumber in America.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027108460X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
In Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers, Ronald E. Ostman and Harry Littell draw on the stunning documentary photography of William T. Clarke to tell the story of Pennsylvania’s lumber heyday, a time when loggers serving the needs of a rapidly growing and globalizing country forever altered the dense forests of the state’s northern tier. Discovered in a shed in upstate New York and a barn in Pennsylvania after decades of obscurity, Clarke’s photographs offer an unprecedented view of the logging, lumbering, and wood industries during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They show the great forests in the process of coming down and the trains that hauled away the felled trees and trimmed logs. And they show the workers—cruisers, jobbers, skidders, teamsters, carpenters, swampers, wood hicks, and bark peelers—their camps and workplaces, their families, their communities. The work was demanding and dangerous; the work sites and housing were unsanitary and unsavory. The changes the newly industrialized logging business wrought were immensely important to the nation’s growth at the same time that they were fantastically—and tragically—transformative of the landscape. An extraordinary look at a little-known photographer’s work and the people and industry he documented, this book reveals, in sharp detail, the history of the third phase of lumber in America.
Flatlanders and Ridgerunners
Author: James York Glimm
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 9780822953456
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Collects traditional legends, proverbs, tall tales, jokes, social customs, and ghost stories from the northern counties of Pennsylvania
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 9780822953456
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Collects traditional legends, proverbs, tall tales, jokes, social customs, and ghost stories from the northern counties of Pennsylvania
Slater Mill
Author: Sarah Leavitt
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780752405674
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
As a working cotton mill, a space for varied types of manufacturing, and eventually as a project of historical preservation, the Slater Mill has played many roles in the history of Pawtucket. LeavittAa's work includes such illuminating images as a turn-of-the-century bicycle shop, a crowded mill scene in the early twentieth century, and the transformation of the site into a tourist attraction in the 1920s. This volume also shows how the site was re-configured as a community museum in the 1950s and Aa'60s, as well as how the industrial emphasis of the curators eventually resulted in the addition of a working water wheel to the site. Well-illustrated, with fact-filled text, Slater Mill is a charming look back at a pivotal part of Pawtucket life that will interest young and old alike.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780752405674
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
As a working cotton mill, a space for varied types of manufacturing, and eventually as a project of historical preservation, the Slater Mill has played many roles in the history of Pawtucket. LeavittAa's work includes such illuminating images as a turn-of-the-century bicycle shop, a crowded mill scene in the early twentieth century, and the transformation of the site into a tourist attraction in the 1920s. This volume also shows how the site was re-configured as a community museum in the 1950s and Aa'60s, as well as how the industrial emphasis of the curators eventually resulted in the addition of a working water wheel to the site. Well-illustrated, with fact-filled text, Slater Mill is a charming look back at a pivotal part of Pawtucket life that will interest young and old alike.
Wise Blood
Author: Flannery O'Connor
Publisher: Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) was an American author. Wise Blood was her first novel and one of her most famous works.
Publisher: Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) was an American author. Wise Blood was her first novel and one of her most famous works.
Fife at Work
Author: Carol McNeill
Publisher: Britain in Old Photographs
ISBN: 9780750970464
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This fascinating pictorial history takes a look back at the days when Fife was home to a wide variety of traditional industries, including mining, farming, fishing, pottery and textile factories, shipping, and shipbuilding. Featuring more than 160 archive images, each accompanied by an informative caption, this volume recalls the people who lived and worked here--the linen workers at their looms, the farmers feeding lambs, the miners heading to their collieries, and the fishermen with their nets--all of which paint a vivid picture of a way of life now largely disappeared. While a number of Fife businesses have been handed down through several generations, adapting and modernizing as necessary over the years, many have finally closed after decades of trade, but are nevertheless fondly remembered.
Publisher: Britain in Old Photographs
ISBN: 9780750970464
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This fascinating pictorial history takes a look back at the days when Fife was home to a wide variety of traditional industries, including mining, farming, fishing, pottery and textile factories, shipping, and shipbuilding. Featuring more than 160 archive images, each accompanied by an informative caption, this volume recalls the people who lived and worked here--the linen workers at their looms, the farmers feeding lambs, the miners heading to their collieries, and the fishermen with their nets--all of which paint a vivid picture of a way of life now largely disappeared. While a number of Fife businesses have been handed down through several generations, adapting and modernizing as necessary over the years, many have finally closed after decades of trade, but are nevertheless fondly remembered.
The Irish Sweep
Author: Marie Coleman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
`Hugely impressive ...always engaging, often fascinating, original, fluidly written and very well researched.' Diarmaid Ferriter --Book Jacket.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
`Hugely impressive ...always engaging, often fascinating, original, fluidly written and very well researched.' Diarmaid Ferriter --Book Jacket.
Shale Play
Author: Julia Kasdorf
Publisher: Keystone Books
ISBN: 9780271080932
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Explores, in poetry and photographs, the effects of the natural gas boom and fracking in the small towns, fields, and forests of Appalachian Pennsylvania.
Publisher: Keystone Books
ISBN: 9780271080932
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Explores, in poetry and photographs, the effects of the natural gas boom and fracking in the small towns, fields, and forests of Appalachian Pennsylvania.
Reclaimed Wood
Author: Alan Solomon
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683356500
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The first handbook on reclaimed wood, combining useful information, rich history, and home design ideas. Reclaimed wood is a gift from ancient forests and a versatile material. Our ancestors built their homes and barns, warehouses, and factories with white pine and oak from the Northeast and the Midwest, longleaf pine and cypress from the South, and Douglas fir and redwood from the Northwest. When we salvage these and other woods for new projects, we are strengthening our own roots. Reclaimed Wood: A Field Guide is the first complete visual survey of this valuable resource, with chapters on history, sources, and types of wood, reclamation, and practical information, and its use in modern architecture and design.
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683356500
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The first handbook on reclaimed wood, combining useful information, rich history, and home design ideas. Reclaimed wood is a gift from ancient forests and a versatile material. Our ancestors built their homes and barns, warehouses, and factories with white pine and oak from the Northeast and the Midwest, longleaf pine and cypress from the South, and Douglas fir and redwood from the Northwest. When we salvage these and other woods for new projects, we are strengthening our own roots. Reclaimed Wood: A Field Guide is the first complete visual survey of this valuable resource, with chapters on history, sources, and types of wood, reclamation, and practical information, and its use in modern architecture and design.
Catalogue of Books and Journals
Author: University of Chicago. Press
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Culturally Modified Trees of British Columbia
Author: Arnoud H. Stryd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description