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FHS495th

Image ID: FHS495
Image Date: 10/18/1949
Image Title: [Logging operations in Bolivia.]
Image Caption: A Caterpillar Diesel D7 Tractor equipped with Hyster D7N Winch and Hyster Logging Arch is used to haul mahogany logs through woods to [a] mill site over sandy roads, through jungle, and fording two rivers. [The tractor is owned and operated by Sociedad Industrial Maderero Espejos, Ltd., of Santa Cruz, Bolivia.]
Photographer: Kirchner, Frank, for Caterpillar Tractor Co. (Peoria, Illinois)
Use Restrictions: Permission from the Forest History Society required for any use of this image.
Repository Contact Information: Forest History Society, Inc.; 701 William Vickers Ave., Durham, NC 27701; Tel.: (919) 682-9319; Fax: (919) 682-2349.