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FHS4919th

Image ID:  FHS4919
Image Date:  4/28/1951
Image Title:  River driving.
Image Caption:  River drivers using peavies working on the log jam at Carrick Pitch. There was a total of 1 1/2 million feet of logs tied up in the jam. River drivers working from dawn until dusk broke the jam in one day. St. Regis Paper Company long log drive on the Machias River, Washington County, Maine.
Photographer:  [unknown]
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.