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    Alpena News Photograph Collection contains images created as a part of local news' endeavors to cover Alpena County news. This photojournalistic resource provides primary source documents on the city of Alpena, Alpena County, its people places, and events from 1960 through the 1990s (bulk 1970-1980). Donated by the Editor of ...

    "The Story of the South Branch" is about fishing along the Thunder Bay River in Alpena and Montmorency Counties of Michigan, as well as Turtle Lake and includes references to the Turtle Lake Club in Montmorency County. This is the scan of the original book that includes actual photographs.

    Front: Logging Operations near Alpena. Pub. by Adams Book Store, Alpena, Mich. Back: Postmarked Dafoe, Mich., Apr 16, 1914 Mrs. R. T. Haltiner 210 Tutle St, Alpena,Mich. April 15, 1914 Dear Mamma, I got up all right. Mr. Cook was at the station to meet me with a horse. They ...

    Logs on a sled being pulled by horses. Sprinkling water on the road and allowing it to freeze made the sled easier to pull.

    Log Sleigh on Ice Road

    Interior view of Churchill logging camp bunkhouse showing "breech loading" bunks and a box heat stove.

    In order to make it easier to pull this gigantic load of logs, a water sprinkler tank wet the roadway to create a surface of ice.

    Logging operation with loggers, horses, and log piles.

    The Haltiner Family at a logging camp in Northern Michigan.

    Haltiner family members part of deer hunting season and deer pole.

    Load of logs being pulled out of forest by horse team.

    Skidding logs using a steam driven donkey engine.

    Men posing on log piles.

    People standing outside lumber camp buildings during winter.

    Logs being loaded on a railroad flatcar by an A-frame steam jammer.

    Horse pulling "big wheels" with log attached.

    Felling a tree using a cross-cut saw. The saw replaced the axe, which led to increased efficiency. Information taken from "Lumbering in Michigan" by Maria Quinlan.

    A load of logs being taken to the banking grounds. The development of rutters and water sprinklers to maintain the sled tracks enabled the woodsmen to haul heavier loads. A rutter was a devise that attached to a log sled runner and cleared the ruts in the road for the ...

    Loggers peeling bark from trees. This was usually done with cedar and hemlock trees. Tannin was extracted from hemlock bark to be used in the leather tanning process.

    Teams of horses hauling logs.