A crude “stag” camp used by all-male workers of the Kaul Lumber Company logging longleaf pines. Logging evidently has begun, and wheeled log haulers, or “bummers”, can be seen at right. The large tent likely stored tools and food.
Historic Logging Photographs Gallery
The logging industry has played an important role in Alabama’s economy for decades. European settlers were greeted with centuries-old forests that they initially cleared for farming and later harvested for commercial export. Once a laborious and dangerous process requiring skilled personnel and extensive animal power, logging gradually has been transformed into a mechanized industry that today provides the state with a large portion of its agricultural employment. This photograph collection was likely taking during a Yale workshop visit to a Kaul Lumber Company operation in Hollins, Clay County, ca. 1910-15.