[Logging Team]

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Copy negative of a logging team in front of a building with the name "A. B. Mandelstamm" on the side. A team of four mules pulls a cart of logs. An unidentified man sits on the mule in the back and to the left, and another man sits on top of the logs in the cart.

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1 photograph : negative, b&w ; 35 mm.

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Cherokee County Historical Society September 17, 1988.

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This photograph is part of the collection entitled: Cherokee County Historical Commission Photograph Collection and was provided by the Cherokee County Historical Commission to The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 75 times. More information about this photograph can be viewed below.

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Description

Copy negative of a logging team in front of a building with the name "A. B. Mandelstamm" on the side. A team of four mules pulls a cart of logs. An unidentified man sits on the mule in the back and to the left, and another man sits on top of the logs in the cart.

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1 photograph : negative, b&w ; 35 mm.

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"Identity of the men is unknown. The A. B. Mandelstamm sign on the building in the background indicates that the load of logs was photographed in Frankston, because Mandelstamm operated a store in Frankston several years after he left Jacksonville in the early 1920's. Mandelstamm and L. E. Frank, a relative, operated the Frank and Mandelstamm dry goods firm at Main and Commerce Sts. in Jacksonville several years. The two teams of mules were a standard motive power for hauling logs to sawmills in those days before trucks took over the task. The load is rather light for four mules, but the wagon is about the right size for the load. Often, loggers would have three and four teams to a load on the sturdier wagons, many of which were eight and twelve-wheelers for the larger loads. Mandelstamm became wealthy from the early development of the Carey Lake Oil Field on the Neches River west of Jacksonville and southwest of Frankston, where he owned large tracts of land. The Mandelstamm company closed years ago."

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Cherokee County Historical Commission Photograph Collection

Photographs depicting people, families, and businesses in Rusk, Jacksonville, and surrounding towns in Cherokee County.

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  • September 17, 1988

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  • Nov. 19, 2013, 1:02 p.m.

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Cherokee County Historical Society. [Logging Team], photograph, September 17, 1988; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth354382/: accessed June 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Cherokee County Historical Commission.

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