Log raft just floated out of the cradle, California, ca.1900

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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."

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1900

Subject Forests and forestry (lcsh), Industry -- Lumbering (file heading), Lumber (lcsh), rivers (adlf), Wood products (lcsh)

Tags oai:digitallibrary.usc.edu:chs,OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12179

Identifier 4232 (accession number), CHS-4232 (call number), CHS-4232 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11669 (legacy record id), chs-m12179 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-12332 (legacy record id), 1-108-29 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11669

Unique identifier UC129765

Legacy Identifier CHS-4232.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 12.8 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 32.6 cm at 300dpi

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Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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