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Philip Fonds Logging With digital objects
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High rigger climbing a spar tree

Photograph of a high rigger (logger) climbing a spar tree in preparation for felling. Inscriptions on verso : "Same tree as on other picture! [0345] Can you see man under lowest limb? ready to begin cutting. / Green Bay, B.C. ", "Green Lake", "1920? / Rigging a spar tree...They put rigging on it" [Location unclear: may be Green Lake rather than Green Bay]

High rigger topping a spar tree

Photograph of a high rigger (logger) felling a spar tree. The annotation on the reverse reads "Cutting off branches to make spar tree for logging. Green Bay, B.C., 1920?" [Location unclear: may be Green Lake rather than Green Bay]

Lost Lake

  • PHILIP-3-1986-1108
  • Item
  • [between 1938 and 1948]
  • Part of Philip Fonds

Logging camp and mill from across Lost Lake. Inscription on verso : "Views of Lost Lake and the logging camp and Mill"

One big tree

Postcard of several people posing on a felled giant fir tree. Caption on postcard : "THIS FIR GIANT MEASURED 417 FT. IN HEIGHT WITH A CLEAR 300 FT. TO THE FIRST LIMB. AT THE BUTT IT WAS 25 FT. THROUGH WITH BARK 16 IN. THICK. ITS CIRCUMFERENCE BEING 77 FT.; 207 FT. FROM THE GROUND ITS DIAMETER WAS 9 FEET. FELLED NEAR VANCOUVER IN AUGUST '95 BY GEORGE CARY, WHO IS SEEN UPON THE LADDER." Handwritten inscription below caption : "1895" and inscription on verso : "Sam Steeves / 406 . 3rd ave / New Westminster"

Picnic at McGuire

Woodlot, probably at McGuire Sawmill. Inscription on reverse reads "Picnic lunch at McGuire"