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9780271072074 0271072075 In Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers, Ronald E. Ostman and Harry Littell draw on the stunning documentary photography of William T. Clarke to tell the story of Pennsylvania's lumber heyday, a time when loggers serving the needs of a rapidly growing and globalizing country forever altered the dense forests of the state's northern tier. Discovered in a shed in upstate New York and a barn in Pennsylvania after decades of obscurity, Clarke's photographs offer an unprecedented view of the logging, lumbering, and wood industries during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They show the great forests in the process of coming down, and the trains that hauled away the felled trees and trimmed logs. And they show the workers-cruisers, jobbers, skidders, teamsters, carpenters, swampers, wood hicks, and bark peelers-their camps and workplaces, their families, their communities. The work was demanding and dangerous; the work sites and housing were unsanitary and unsavory. The changes the newly industrialized logging business wrought were immensely important to the nation's growth at the same time that they were fantastically-and tragically-transformative to the landscape. An extraordinary look at a little-known photographer's work and the people and industry he documented, this book reveals, in sharp detail, the history of the third phase of lumber in America., Without the lumber industry, and the trains that hauled felled trees and trimmed logs, Pennsylvania s history and present day would look very different. In this book, Ronald E. Ostman and Harry Littell use the stunning documentary photography of William T. Clarke to shape and share the story of the state s lumber heyday, a time when loggers serving the needs of a rapidly growing and globalizing country forever altered the dense forests of Pennsylvania s Northern Tier.Discovered in a shed in upstate New York and a barn in Pennsylvania after decades of obscurity, Clarke s haunting photographs provide an unprecedented view of the transformation that took place during the era of logging, lumbering, and wood industries that followed the advent of steam-powered machines. Together with Ostman and Littell s narrative, these photographs show us how the men and families who made up the lumbering communities worked and lived, the dramatic ways in which they reshaped the landscape around them, and the sheer might of the lumber industry during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers is an extraordinary look at the remarkable work of a little-known photographer and his world. It is also the story of the dramatic transformation of a natural landscape altered forever by industrialization and of the ongoing efforts to reclaim that landscape."
9780271072074 0271072075 In Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers, Ronald E. Ostman and Harry Littell draw on the stunning documentary photography of William T. Clarke to tell the story of Pennsylvania's lumber heyday, a time when loggers serving the needs of a rapidly growing and globalizing country forever altered the dense forests of the state's northern tier. Discovered in a shed in upstate New York and a barn in Pennsylvania after decades of obscurity, Clarke's photographs offer an unprecedented view of the logging, lumbering, and wood industries during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They show the great forests in the process of coming down, and the trains that hauled away the felled trees and trimmed logs. And they show the workers-cruisers, jobbers, skidders, teamsters, carpenters, swampers, wood hicks, and bark peelers-their camps and workplaces, their families, their communities. The work was demanding and dangerous; the work sites and housing were unsanitary and unsavory. The changes the newly industrialized logging business wrought were immensely important to the nation's growth at the same time that they were fantastically-and tragically-transformative to the landscape. An extraordinary look at a little-known photographer's work and the people and industry he documented, this book reveals, in sharp detail, the history of the third phase of lumber in America., Without the lumber industry, and the trains that hauled felled trees and trimmed logs, Pennsylvania s history and present day would look very different. In this book, Ronald E. Ostman and Harry Littell use the stunning documentary photography of William T. Clarke to shape and share the story of the state s lumber heyday, a time when loggers serving the needs of a rapidly growing and globalizing country forever altered the dense forests of Pennsylvania s Northern Tier.Discovered in a shed in upstate New York and a barn in Pennsylvania after decades of obscurity, Clarke s haunting photographs provide an unprecedented view of the transformation that took place during the era of logging, lumbering, and wood industries that followed the advent of steam-powered machines. Together with Ostman and Littell s narrative, these photographs show us how the men and families who made up the lumbering communities worked and lived, the dramatic ways in which they reshaped the landscape around them, and the sheer might of the lumber industry during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers is an extraordinary look at the remarkable work of a little-known photographer and his world. It is also the story of the dramatic transformation of a natural landscape altered forever by industrialization and of the ongoing efforts to reclaim that landscape."