Logging Operations with Tractor and Log Hauling Trailer, Michigan, 1925

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Artifact Overview

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 Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Date Made

02 June 1925

Subject Date

1925

Creator Notes

Photographed by Ford Motor Company Photographic Department, Dearborn, Michigan

Location

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

Logging Operations with Tractor and Log Hauling Trailer, Michigan, 1925