Sawmills.

AM21-072, December 2003

Accession

Form of Material Thesis written in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, The L. N. Dantzler Lumber Company: a prosperous south Mississippi lumber company by Jamie Dyan Bounds. University of Southern Mississippi, 2003. Abstract: The L.N. Dantzler Lumber Company serves as an example of one successful lumber company that helped shape south Mississippi economically, socially, and environmentally. Through the efforts of owner...

Dates: December 2003

Found in: Historical Manuscripts and Photographs / L.N. Dantzler Lumber Company Collection

Dr. Gilbert H. Hoffman Papers and Research Collection

Collection

Identifier: M272

Abstract The Gilbert H. Hoffman Papers and Research Collection contains the research notes and photographs which Hoffman compiled and collected for the book, Dummy Lines Through the Longleaf, a history of sawmill operations and logging railroads in Southwest Mississippi during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In addition, it contains hundreds of photographs, both positive and negative images, of other railroads and logging operations principally in...

Dates: circa 1870-2004

Found in: Historical Manuscripts and Photographs

Homochitto Lumber Company Photograph

Collection

Identifier: M520

Abstract

An aerial photograph of the Homochitto Lumber Company in Bude, Mississippi.

Dates: Majority of material found within circa 1923

Found in: Historical Manuscripts and Photographs

Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs

Collection

Identifier: M291

Abstract

Photographs of pine and oak forests owned by this Lyman, Mississippi lumber company and a 2003-2004 Forestry Association calendar.

Dates: circa 1906-1925

Found in: Historical Manuscripts and Photographs

Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs

Collection

Identifier: M292

Scope and Contents This collection of photographs from the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Company includes 20 images of company sites in Epley (Lamar County) and Tallahala (Perry County). These black-and-white photographs illustrate many facets of a saw mill company, from the logs coming out of the forests via steam locomotives, to stacking the finished product in the mill's storage shed.An aerial view of the Tallahala operation and a panoramic photograph of the Epley location demonstrate that the saw mill...

Dates: Majority of material found within 1923, 1928-1929

Found in: Historical Manuscripts and Photographs