A logging crew along the Little River, near Bartow, Pocahontas County, WV.
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Title
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A logging crew along the Little River, near Bartow, Pocahontas County, WV.
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Creator/Maker: For Photographs, Archival Documents, & Artifacts
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Festy Yorkum, photographer.
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Date
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undated
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Caption
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Working six days per week, often ten or more hours a day, crews of workers known as “wood hicks” cut and prepared hundreds of logs each day for transport to a sawmill. At the peak of West Virginia’s timber boom in 1909, men with job titles like choppers, sawyers, swampers, and knot bumpers earned between $1.75 and $2.00 per day.
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Rights
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