Logging Operations with Tractor and Log Hauling Trailer, Michigan, 1925
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In pursuit of self-sufficient automobile manufacture, Henry Ford and Ford Motor Company purchased over 313,000 acres of timberland for logging in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Ford built a large lumber camp in Sidnaw, where well-fed, well-dressed, and well-housed lumberjacks like this worker harvested mature trees. The wood would be made into automobile parts at a plant 65 miles southeast.
In pursuit of self-sufficient automobile manufacture, Henry Ford and Ford Motor Company purchased over 313,000 acres of timberland for logging in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Ford built a large lumber camp in Sidnaw, where well-fed, well-dressed, and well-housed lumberjacks like this worker harvested mature trees. The wood would be made into automobile parts at a plant 65 miles southeast.
Artifact
Photographic print
Date Made
02 June 1925
Subject Date
1925
Creators
Ford Motor Company. Photographic Department
Place of Creation
United States, Michigan, Dearborn
Creator Notes
Photographed by Ford Motor Company Photographic Department, Dearborn, Michigan
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
64.167.270.P.833.42438
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 8.125 in
Width: 10 in
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