Photograph
Leiserson and Logging Locomotive
| Taken on logging railroad, Lakeshore and Eastern Railroad, owned and operated by the Kneeland-McLurg Lumber company, Phillips, Wisconsin. Photograph is taken about 20 miles east of Phillips, in Emery Township. This is locomotive number 80, serial number 1549, built by the Pittsburgh Locomotive Works (shipped April, 1895) for the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad. Number 80 was purchased by the John R. Davis Lumber Company in 1909, and in August 1912, the Davis Lumber Company, its logging railroad, and all equipment was sold to the Kneeland-McLurg Lumber Company. It was scrapped in 1932. William Leiserson, second from left in photo, is investigating conditions in Wisconsin labor camps. He is posing with workers next to a logging locomotive and hoist. Fifth from left is Rudolf Kieble, Engineer, with the fireman and brakeman next to him. |
| Image ID: | 10243 |
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| Creation Date: | before 1914 |
| Creator Name: | Johnson, Sven Alfred |
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| County: | Price |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | William M. Leiserson papers, 1901-1959 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | PH 3024 |
| Original Dimensions: | 7.5 x 10 inches |
| Information provided by John L. Berg, Wisconsin Rapids. |
| Land use, Rural |
| Men |
| Agricultural laborers |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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