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Wood hicks and bark peelers : a visual history of Pennsylvania's railroad lumbering communities : the photographic legacy of William T. Clarke / Ronald E. Ostman and Harry Littell ; with an introduction by Linda A. Ries.
LIBRA SD538.2.P4 O78 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ostman, Ronald Elroy, author.
- Littell, Harry, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clarke, W. T.
- Logging--Pennsylvania--History.
- Logging.
- Logging railroads--Pennsylvania--History.
- Logging railroads.
- Loggers--Pennsylvania--History.
- Loggers.
- Landscape photography--Pennsylvania--History.
- Landscape photography.
- History.
- Pennsylvania.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 234 pages ; 24 x 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- "Through the photography of William T. Clarke, explores the impact of the logging industry on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century north-central Pennsylvania"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The black forest
- The machine in the garden
- Wood hicks, bark peelers, and other woods workers
- Camp life
- Community life
- The Pennsylvania desert
- A mighty transformation.
- Notes:
- "A Keystone book."
- "Published in collaboration with the Lumber Heritage Region of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780271072074
- 0271072075
- OCLC:
- 932116118
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