![]() Clarke’s images remind us that nineteenth-century Pennsylvanians lived in a wooden world: the trees still standing, and those cut for homes, trestles, railroad ties, tools, and fuel, reveal how incredibly useful the state’s forests were, for those lives depended on them. ![]() Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers is an important contribution to the environmental sector of public history in Pennsylvania.” -Vagel Keller, H-Net “What a glorious feast for the eye! William T. Readers will come away with a solid understanding of the loggers’ lives, especially of those who resided near the communities of Galeton, Potter County, and Port Allegany, McKean County.” -Sean Adkins, Pennsylvania Heritage “It is the scope of these photographs-discovered, preserved, and now reprinted for the first time in over a century-that makes this more than just another coffee table book. ![]() This volume will be of equal interest to readers exploring nineteenth-century photography, Pennsylvania history, the logging industry, or environmentalism.” -starred review, Library Journal “Gorgeous, detail-packed photographs.” -Rebecca Onion, Slate Vault “In this era of digital photos and selfie sticks, the art and technique behind Clarke’s photos is striking.” -Darrin Youker, Susquehanna Life Magazine “In addition to piecing together Clarke’s enigmatic life, the book builds on the story of the 131 found negatives, interspersing several other Clarke logging photographs preserved by the State Archives. “A detailed look at a bygone world.” -David Gonzalez, The New York Times Lens blog “Valuable historical documents, the images fascinate, also, through their depiction of the environment devastated by logging activity and of the strange locomotives and heavy machinery, iron dinosaurs in the forest landscape. The changes the newly industrialized logging business wrought were immensely important to the nation’s growth at the same time that they were fantastically-and tragically-transformative of the landscape.Īn extraordinary look at a little-known photographer’s work and the people and industry he documented, this book reveals, in sharp detail, the history of the third phase of lumber in America. ![]() The work was demanding and dangerous the work sites and housing were unsanitary and unsavory. And they show the workers-cruisers, jobbers, skidders, teamsters, carpenters, swampers, wood hicks, and bark peelers-their camps and workplaces, their families, their communities. They show the great forests in the process of coming down and the trains that hauled away the felled trees and trimmed logs. Clarke to tell the story of Pennsylvania’s lumber heyday, a time when loggers serving the needs of a rapidly growing and globalizing country forever altered the dense forests of the state’s northern tier.ĭiscovered in a shed in upstate New York and a barn in Pennsylvania after decades of obscurity, Clarke’s photographs offer an unprecedented view of the logging, lumbering, and wood industries during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Ostman and Harry Littell draw on the stunning documentary photography of William T. In Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers, Ronald E.
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