Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
A Steep Plunge |
Object Name |
Photograph |
Other number |
P086090 |
Description |
View of a sluiceway built for the J&J Rogers Company for log drives. This one was built on Whiteface Mountain. Caption (likely printed on the negative) reads: "ROGERS CO. LUMBER SLIDE. / SPRUCE MILL / A STEEP PLUNGE." Writing on the back reads: "Whiteface 'slip' Looking up it - Camera was tipped - not showing steepness of spout-- / Wood pushing water ahead of it. note small amount of water left-- / slip immediately behind wood" |
Date |
1900ca |
Photographer |
unidentified |
Collection |
Voelcker Collection of J&J Rogers Company Photographs |
Search Terms |
J & J Rogers Company J. &. J. Rogers J. & J. Rogers Iron Company (Au Sable Forks, N.Y.); lumbering Whiteface Mountain Whiteface Mt Whiteface Mt. Whiteface Mtn. Whiteface, NY log drive logging logs |
Subjects |
Lumbering Sluices |
Studio |
unidentified |
Catalog Number |
2021.065.0039 |
Notes |
Title taken from print from negative. |