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Title	Log raft just floated out of the cradle, California, ca.1900
Description	Photograph of an ocean-going log raft just floated out of its cradle on a river in California, ca.1900. This cigar shaped floating frame was 835 feet long and contained 5,000,000 feet of timber, ready for an ocean trip. The wooden cradle at right held the raft while it was being prepared for towing. A tugboat at the far end of the log raft tows it. Trees grow thickly on both banks of the river.; "Sea going rafts reduce the cost of transportation to a fraction as the rafts are towed 1500 miles down the coast b a small tug in a little over two weeks making 4 miles an hour. The present day log raft is an outgrowth of a much smaller raft [of] about 100,000 feet of piling made by Captain Robertson at Saint John's New Brunswick which was lost in a storm in the Atlantic. After making two other unsuccessful attempts he came to the Pacific and finally succeeded but not without failure to begin with."
Subject (adlf)	rivers
Subject (file heading)	Industry -- Lumbering
Subject (lcsh)	Lumber Forests and forestry Wood products
Geographic subject (state)	California
Geographic subject (country)	USA
Coverage date	circa 1900
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	circa 1900
Type	images
Format	glass plate negatives
Format (aacr2)	2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm.
Format (aat)	photographic prints photographs
Accession number	4232
Call number	CHS-4232
Microfiche number	1-108-29
Legacy record ID	chs-m12179; USC-1-1-1-12332
Part of collection	California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Part of subcollection	Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Project	USC
Rights	California Historical Society
Access conditions	Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Repository name	USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository address	Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Repository email	specol@usc.edu
Filename	CHS-4232
Archival file	chs_Volume77/CHS-4232.tiff

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