Description

Our digital collection thematic research topic is focused on the forestry industry in Oregon in the 19th and 20th centuries. We chose this topic because forestry is an important part of Oregon’s history and economy, as the state is still one of the top producers of lumber in the United States today. This collection focuses on the workers who help run this industry, with photographs depicting men at work, maps of worker camp sites, as well as the tools and machinery they used to process and transport lumber collected from different GLAMS. By collecting these digital objects together, we hope that viewers can get a glimpse into the day-to-day lives of loggers and forestry workers in Oregon.

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Sample Items
Time Span

1897 to 1989
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Top Subjects

Workers Logging Forests and forestry—equipment and supplies Logging railroads Foresters

Locations

Corvallis (inhabited place) Rogue river national forest (forest) Portland (inhabited place) Multnomah (county) Coos (county)

Objects

24 Images
1 Audio
1 PDFs
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