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Mr. Sydnor's Insurance Office on Main Street in Marlinton, W.Va. Shows the small white building from the back, looking out onto the street with people walking on sidewalk. Mr. Sydnor was once Mayor of Marlinton.

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Train cars of Campbell Lumber Company loaded with logs on small bridge, Campbelltown, W.Va.

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Small unidentified logging camp with crew in Pocahontas County, W.Va. Two women with children at the right of photo possibly are: Mary Malcom with baby; Perry and Bessie Showalter next to and unknown Malcom.

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Log camp between Hosterman and Arbovale, W.Va. Shows entire crew with camp workers in front of large camp building, people sitting in upper windows and flag flying on porch.

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Nine loggers with felled trees, possibly taken at Olive near Durbin, W.Va. Shows one man sitting on top of pole.

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Group photo of loggers at Maryland Lumber Company's Camp No.12 near Denmar, W.Va. First row 3rd from right: Mr. Tabor; 5th from right:A. S. Hoover. Second row 7th from right: Reed Griffith, foreman.

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W.Va. Pulp and Paper Co. Camp No. 2 near Cass, W.Va. Shows loggers and camp crew with buildings and team of horses. First row sitting left to right: Cam Rider,Johnny Rider,George Curry,Less Kenison,Ernest Rider,Dently Curry,John Collins. Standing…

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Three loggers from Camp 9 with horse team and logs beside railroad track in Northern Pocahontas County,W.Va. Man in black suit standing at back left in photo.

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Group of people standing around a train engine belonging to the Hosterman Lumber Company. The boiler on the Climax engine exploded on July 26, 1906 coming across the top of Little Mountain near Cass, W.Va. The explosion occurred behind the Uriah…

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Two families with children standing in front of large building at a log camp in northern Pocahontas County, W.Va. Possibly Camp No. 4 on North Fork of Deer Creek.

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Large group of children and adults on the last day of school at the Browns Creek School north of Huntersville, W.Va. School opened in 1895 and closed in 1920. Building later became Browns Creek Church.

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Winter scen of a portable saw mill on Brown's Creek near Huntersville, W.Va. Shows stacks of lumber and two teams of horses. Pictured left to right: Austin Sharp, Collins, Jim Collins, Joe Webb, Harry Pritt, Ed McLaughlin (holding horse), Luther…

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Men running a portable steam engine on farm near Huntersville, W.Va. Standing left to right: Wallace McLaughlin,Charles Moore, Joe Phillips, Walter Grimes, George Ginger, French Moore, A.P. McLaughlin, Paul Crummet (owner of machine). Young boys left…

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Group of Men, possibly Loggers, Eating on Field Near Knapps Creek in Marlinton, W.Va. Marlinton Grade School can be seen in background.

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Constructing the cut for the logging railroad between the old Town of Spruce on Cheat Mountain and Slaty Fork, W.Va. Men working on the left, machines in the distance.

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First Mallet Engine on Greenbrier Division of the Chesapeake and Ohio at Ronceverte, W.Va. Two train men with Ronceverte Depot at the right.

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Large crowd of townspeople seen on both sides of the track in Marlinton, W.Va. Celebrating the arrival of the Greenbrier River Railroad Company's Construction Train.

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Greenbrier River Railroad Company's Construction Train with a large crowd of spectators in Marlinton, W.Va. Clown standing in front of crowd is Asby Slavins.

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Warn Lumber Company Cutting Timber on Bird Run in Frost, W.Va. Logging crew standing on large felled tree with logs on the hillside.

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Warn Lumber Company log camp on Bird Run east of Frost, W.Va. Shows buildings, train track and skidded logs on hillside.
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