Archive Photographs Documenting Logging by A C Tuxbury Lumber Company (1 results)

First edition. Seventeen mounted photographs,including 8 albumen photographs, sized 3" x 5" mounted on 5" x 7" cream-colored studio boards, sepia toned, one with pencil markings on verso; nine silver gelatin photos sized 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" mounted on dark gray studio boards measuring 5 ½" x 6 ½,? one with pencil annotations on verso. Preserved in faux alligator skin paper covered box, with annotations on verso oflid. These exceptional images document the logging activities of the A.C. TuxburyCo. amidst the South Carolinaswampland forests near Charleston, South Carolina. These images were shotat the time the Tuxbury Co.loggingoperations were centered along theAshley and Cooper Rivers where cutlogs were simply floated to the mill, orhauled on shortline narrow gauge logging railroad lines to the river. Twoimages depict the Forney 0-4-4 locomotive purchased by Tuxbury in1905, with others of white companyofficials standing next to the locomotivewith its African-American engineer andfireman looking down on the groupfrom the cab, and still another shows it operating with a McGiffertsteam hoist log loader. Still others depict the company's steamtugboat the "Victory" for nudging timber ships into the companydock, while others reveal three-masted timber schooners moored atthe Tuxbury North Charleston sawmill complex. Oneimage highlights a timber cruiser holding his log calipers amidstthe stand of trees, and another shows a company official with afelled log featuring "1086 ft." penciled on the image at the facingend of the log. The Tuxbury Lumber Co. operated several sawmill complexesalong the Atlantic seaboard, and in 1905, Charles Hill and FredDavies built a large sawmill at Shipyard Creek near Charleston'sold Navy yard. In addition to timber schooners to ship its lumber,the company had connections with all of the major southern railroads including the Southern Railway, Seaboard Air Line, andthe Atlantic Coast Line. After initially depleting forests inMichigan, many logging companies shifted operations to theSoutheastern United States, and Tuxbury operated in SouthCarolina until the entire stands of timber were clearcut, and themill shut down in 1938 after cutting 715 million board feet oflumber. Minor bowing of boards as resultof mountings. Slight shelfwear.