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Log raft just floated out of the cradle, California, ca.1900
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."
Call number: CHS-4232
Filename: CHS-4232
Coverage date: circa 1900
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Format: glass plate negatives
Type: images
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 4232
Microfiche number: 1-108-29
Archival file: chs_Volume77/CHS-4232.tiff
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Subject (adlf): rivers
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Project: USC
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1900
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Legacy record ID: chs-m12179; USC-1-1-1-12332
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Subject (file heading): Industry -- Lumbering
Subject (lcsh): Lumber; Forests and forestry; Wood products
Date circa 1900
date QS:P,+1900-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/11669
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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