File:Empire roader steam donkey engine working as a roader and a loader with fallen logs and cables in foreground, close to British (AL+CA 7755).jpg

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English: Empire roader steam donkey engine working as a roader and a loader with fallen logs and cables in foreground, close to British Columbia Mills, Timber and Trading Company's Camp H, located 15 miles from Rock Bay on Vancouver Island, June 12, 1917
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PH Coll 1395.27

A steam donkey engine was an integrated machine consisting of a power plant and gearing that turned one or more drums or winches containing wire rope. Designed to lift, drag, and move logs from the stump to an accumulation point, steam donkey engines were also used to load logs on cars that transported them to distant mill sites

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Steam donkeys--British Columbia; Logs--British Columbia
  • Subjects (LCSH): British Columbia Mills, Timber and Trading Company
Depicted place British Columbia
Date Taken on 12 June 1917
institution QS:P195,Q219563
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University of Washington: Special Collections
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7755
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English: Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection
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