Priest Lake Museum

Logging - Log Drives
2.2
Priest River Log Drive in Winter - circa 1910
Image of the Priest River filled with logs. There are six men and boys standing on the logs. Trees in the background. Written on the back of the image is: "Priest River Log Drive 1910" ... View Full Record
Logging - Operations
2.24
Log Flume (Big Creek?) - circa 1920
Image of a Log Flume going down a steep hill to transect with a large log flume. This image can also be found at the Priest River Experimental Station photo archives, this is called the Big Creek Flume in that photo. Written on the back of the imag... View Full Record
Logging - Operations
3.8
Logging Truck Over Corduroy Bridge Circa 1938 - 1940
Image of a logging truck with a full load of logs driving over a log bridge. There is a truck parked next to a hillside in the background. Written on the back of the image is: "Logging Truck over Corduroy Bridge 1938-1940" U of I states 1941 as... View Full Record
Logging - Booms
5.2
SS Rustler pulling a Log Boom on Pend O'Reille
Image of a log boom being pulled by a steamboat on the Pend O'Reille. There is shore in the foreground and background. Written on the back of the image is: "S.S. Rustler on Lake Pend O'reille. 1940" This was the Northern Navigation Company run b... View Full Record
Logging - Booms
5.12
Tyee and Ridley pulling a log boom
Image of a log boom being pulled by the Tyee and the Ridley on Priest lake. The shore is in the background. Written on the attached label is: Tyee and Ridley pulling boom on the lake" Operated by the Northern Navigation Company with Russ and Mona... View Full Record
Logging - Log Drives
6.2
Beardmore River Crew - West Branch - 1911
Image of river pigs holding peavies and cant hooks during a log drive on the West Branch of the Priest River for the Beardmore Logging Company. 18 men and a dog. There are trees in the background. There is also a Spar Pole next to the pile of logs.... View Full Record
Logging - Log Drives
6.4
Two Women on Logs in River
Image of a two women standing on a log among a river full of logs. Written on the back of the image is: "Two Women on Logs"... View Full Record
Logging - Log Drives
6.5
Logs on the West Branch - 1911
Image of a man standing on a log in the middle of many logs on the West Branch of Priest River. The shore is visible on both sides of the image. Written on the back of the image is: "Logs on West Branch 1911" Beardmore Timber Company.... View Full Record
Logging - Log Drives
6.6
River Crew on a Log Jam - 1911
Image of a river pigs,18 men and a dog, standing on a log jam on the Priest River for the Beardmore Timber Company, They are all holding peavies and cant Hooks. The tree lines shore is visible in the background. Written on the back of the image... View Full Record
Logging - Log Drives
6.7
Beardmore River Crew with a log jam on the West Branch - 1911
Image of a group of about 14 men working on a log jam on the Priest River. They are all holding peavies and cant hooks. The tree lines shore is visible in the background. Written on a tag on the back of the image is: "Beardmore River Crew, West... View Full Record
Logging - Camps
6.10
Logging Camp with Railroad running through it
Image of a Beardmore logging camp with a logging railroad running through it on the Pack River There are two buildings on one side of the railroad and three buildings as well as a pile of logs on the other side of the railroad. There is also a Spar... View Full Record
Logging - Railroads
6.14
Loading logs onto a Railroad Car
Image of two men loading logs with the use of a Spar Pole and a block - and - tackle onto a railroad car. It looks like the word "Northern 626 is written on the lower part of the Railroad car being loaded." There are trees in the background. Wri... View Full Record
Logging - Operations
6.21
Bear in front of a Log Flume - circa 1920
Image of a bear on the ground with a log flume in the background. Written on a tag on the back of the image is: "Bear in front of log flume. circa 1920"... View Full Record
Logging - Operations
7.1
Two men and a Brush Rack
Image of two men leaning on machinery (a Brush Rack). Written on the back of the image is: "Brush Rack"... View Full Record
Logging - Operations
7.4
A Man on a Spar Pull (used for pulling logs)
Image of a man on the side of a spar pole, the block and tackle on top of the spar pole is also visible,. There is a man standing on the ground. The ground is covered in snow. Written on the back of the image is: "Spar Pole. Used for Pulling Log... View Full Record
Logging - Booms
7.23
Log Booms from Lakeview Mountain
Image of several log booms on the Lake as seen from Lakeview Mountain. Written on the back of the image is: "Lake view with Booms"... View Full Record
Logging - Log Drives
7.28
Breaking up a Log Jam
Image of 9 river pigs with peavies and cant hooks breaking up a log jam on the Priest River Written on the back of the image is: "Breaking up a Log Jam"... View Full Record
Logging - Log Drives
7.29
Logs on Priest River
Image of the Priest River filled with logs during the annual log drive. The river banks are visible on both sides. Written on the back of the image is: "Logs on the Priest River"... View Full Record
Logging - Log Drives
7.30
Logs Jam with a boat on Priest River
Log jam with two lines of logs on the Priest River . The river banks are visible on both sides. A man is standing on the logs next to a bateau. Written on the back of the image is: "Log Jam with boat"... View Full Record
Logging - Diamond Match
10.7
Diamond Match Camp
Image of a Diamond Match Camp. In the foreground, the ground is covered in logs, a sparsly treed hillside is in the background, and there are several buildings as the focus of the image. There is a truck in the fenced yard. Written on the back of... View Full Record
Logging - Railroads
18.12
Engine at Dalkena Camp #1 at Dickensheet
Image of the Dalkena Shay locomotive on the West Branch of the Priest River. Written on the back of the image is: "Engine at Dalkena Camp #1 at Dickensheet" ... View Full Record
Logging - Booms
19.5
Diamond Match Log Jammer with Log Boom
Image of a Diamond Match log boom with a log jammer at Canoe Point. There is a crane with two buildings and a man (Speed Weidner?) walking towards the camera. Written on the back of the image is: "Diamond Match Jammer. Log Landing Camp 9. SL Weid... View Full Record
Logging - Diamond Match
19.6
Diamond Match Camp 9
Diamond Match Camp 9. A group of buildings with the Lake in the background and the shoreline on the far background. Written on the back of the image is: "Diamond Camp 9. SL Weidner"... View Full Record
Logging - Camps
22.1
Logging Camp (Camp 8) in Snow
Image of Diamond Match camp buildings with snow on the ground and on the roofs. There are trees in the background, and a man in front of the far building. written on the back of the image is: "Logging Camp Housing in Snow. Camp 8. SL Weidner"... View Full Record
Logging - Operations
22.2
Landing at Beaver Creek - 1954
Diamond Match salvaging timber damaged by the spruce beetle on Blacktail Mountain. Image of a log lifting crade above a ramp with logs to one side. There are two cabins with the Beaver Creek Camp Assocation on the background shoreline. A building i... View Full Record
Logging - Camps
22.3
Logging Camp at Beaver Creek - 1950's
Image of two Diamond Match outbuildings at a logging camp. There is a truck in front of the large outbuilding. There are trees in the background. Written on the back of the image is: "Buildings at logging camp. Beaver Creek. SL Weidner"... View Full Record
Logging - Operations
22.8
Man in front of large log - Yellow pine log, Camp 11
Image of a man standing in front of a log with a log rule in his hand. The log is chained for lifting. There is another man in the background. Written on the back of the image is: "Man in front of large log. Yellow pine log (ponderosa) Camp 11,... View Full Record
Logging - Operations
22.11
Loaded Logging Truck at Camp 9
Image of the back end of a logging truck with five very large logs loaded on it. The Lake and the opposite shoreline are visible in the background. The truck is driving on a muddy road. the crane for loading the logs is visible in the top left hand... View Full Record
Logging
23.5
Logs loaded onto a sled
Image of logs piled high on a sled as seed from the back. There is a dog in the bottom right hand corner. Written on the tag for the image is: "Logs loaded onto sled". Picture is from the Snow Valley Hagman's collection.... View Full Record
Logging
24.1
Diamond Creek slash and burn - 1942
Image of a hillside. There are burnt logs on the ground and only trees on the far background. Written on the tag for the image is: "burned over clearcut" Written on the back of the image is: "diamond Creek slash burn 9/20/1942"... View Full Record
Logging - Operations
24.8
Kalispell Bay Loading Dock, Truck #6, 1949
At Kalispell Bay Landing, the Schaefer-Hitchcock Pole Company is transfering poles from a boom to a logging truck. There are logs in the water, and a dock next to the truck with a ramp that leads down to the water. Written on the back of the image... View Full Record
Logging - Railroads
27.1
Diamond Match - The Lakeshore Limited crossing Kalispell Creek - circa 1929
Image of the Plyouth gasoline mechanical locomotive used by Diamond Match to salvage timber in the Kalispell drainage after the 1926 fire. in the front and piles of logs on all of the traincars. The engine is moving along a trestle and through the... View Full Record
Logging - Log Drives
29.1
Working a Log jam on Priest River
Ross Hall image of the river pigs on the Priest River freeing a log jam. Image of a several menusing peavies and Cant hooks to work loose a log jam. Written on the lower margin of the image in white ink is: "H-108 Working a log-jam, Priest River... View Full Record
Logging - Log Drives
29.4
Priest River Log Run
Image of four men working a log Jam in the rapids with Cant Hooks or Peavies. Written on the lower margin of the image in white ink is: "H-111 Priest River Log Run - North Idaho - Ross Hall"... View Full Record
Logging
32.2
Man standing in between Ancient Cedars
Same image as 32.1 but taken from farther away. Image of a man standing in between two very large ancient Cedar trees, Ferns in the foreground. The bases of the trees are touching.... View Full Record
Logging - Operations
46.9
Big Creek Flume - 1930's
Image looking down the Diamond Match Big Creek logging flume. There is water in the flume but no logs. There are trees on both sides of the flume. On the back of the image is written in pen: "Big Creek Flume, 1930's. Hirst"... View Full Record
Logging - Diamond Match
2009.32.1
Diamond Match Operations
Diamond Match operations on Cavanaugh Bay January 10, 1949. Images show the buildings looking north with Cats lined up covered in snow. The lake is mostly frozen over.... View Full Record
Logging - Diamond Match
2009.32.2
Diamond Match Operations Looking South
Diamond Match operations on Cavanaugh Bay January 10, 1949. Images show the buildings looking south. The lake is mostly frozen over.... View Full Record
Logging
2009.41.5
Beardmore Logging Flume near Lion Creek
Image of an active log flume. Logs and white water are in the flume. the hillside is visible on both sides of the flume. Written on the back of the image is: "Beardmore Logging Flume near Lion Creek"... View Full Record
Logging - Log Drives
2009.44.1
The Last Log Drive
Large color photograph of Priest River log drive. Five men in the photograph, one on a log jam and the other four in a boat. the side of the Boat says "The Diamond Match Co." The donor also gave a copy of a story written about the last log drive a... View Full Record
Logging - Diamond Match
2009.49.1
Diamond Match Officials in Kitchen
From Diamond Match camp 9, image of seven men (four cooks and Mr. Miller, Mr. Burkey, and Mr. Barron) standing in a camp kitchen behind a kitchen work table. Image includes Jack Barron ... View Full Record
Logging - Diamond Match
2009.49.2
Jack Barron and two men
At Diamond Match camp 9, image of three men (one cook and Mr. King and Mr. Burkey?). The cook is ringing a large triangle. ... View Full Record
Logging - Diamond Match
2009.49.3
Jack Barron and Man with Peavy
Image of Jack Barron in a hard hat holding a Peavy with another man in a hard hat. in front of a car. Back of Image says: "John S. Barron (Jack), GM of Diamond Match"... View Full Record
Logging - Diamond Match
2009.49.4
Jack Barron
Diamond Match exectutives with Jack Barron with another Mr. Bloomenshine?. Both men are holding drinks and holding a can of Mayonnaise. Back of Image says: "John S. Barron (Jack) (With drink), General Manager of Diamond Match" They are at OC Olsen's... View Full Record
Logging - Diamond Match
2009.49.6
Diamond Match Officials at Paul Jones Beach Cabin
Image of five men (Mr. Martin, Mr. Bloomenshine, Mr. Burkey, Mr. Johnson, and an unknown man?) drinking and dining in a cabin near Paul Jones Beach.... View Full Record
Logging - Diamond Match
2009.49.11
Diamond Match Officials above Huckleberry Bay
Diamond Match officials touring camp 11. Thirteen men at overlooking Huckleberry Bay and Twin Island. The back of the picture says: "Huckleberry Bay w/ east Twin Island. From L to R (1) "Speed" Weidner, (7) Jack Barron, GM of Diamond Match." The bac... View Full Record
Logging - Diamond Match
2009.49.12
Cedar Creek Sawmill, Montana
Image of a Diamond Match sawmill surrounded by treed hills and with many logs in the water. The back of the image says: "Superior, Montana ? Cedar Creek. Diamond Match Collection."... View Full Record
Logging - Diamond Match
2009.49.13
Diamond Match Officials at Cedar Creek Sawmill, Montana
Image of twenty one men in front of a Diamond Match sawmill surrounded by treed hills The back of the image says: "Superior, Montana ? Cedar Creek. Diamond Match Collection."... View Full Record
Logging - Diamond Match
2009.49.14
Diamond Match Officials
Image of a group of men including General Manager Jack Barron in front of a large stump with a chain saw on top of it. The back of the image says: "Diamond Match Collection."... View Full Record
Logging - Diamond Match
2009.49.15
Diamond Match Officials
A group of Diamond Match men including general manager Jack Barron in front of a large stump with a chain saw on top of it and a hard hatted man with an ax.. The back of the image says: "Diamond Match Collection."... View Full Record
Logging - Diamond Match
2009.49.16
Drawing a Core Sample from a Tree
Image hands drawing a core sample from a tree. The back of the image says: "Drawing a core sample - Diamond Collection."... View Full Record
Logging - Diamond Match
2009.49.17
Diamond Match Officials looking at a Tree
Five Diamond Match men in hard hats standing next to a large tree.... View Full Record
Logging - Diamond Match
2009.49.18
Diamond Match Officials on a Hillside Road
Image of Diamond Match officials in hard hats standing on a road with three cars, looking down the hill.... View Full Record
Logging - Diamond Match
2009.49.19
Diamond Match Officials at a Diamond Match Camp
A group of Diamond Match men in hard hats in fromt of Camp II.... View Full Record
Logging - Diamond Match
2009.49.20
Diamond Match Officials in a Boat
Four men in a boat with East Twin Island behind them. The men are from L to R Mr. Duffey, Mr. Burkey, Mr. Martin and Jack Barron. The back of the image says: East twin with Diamond Match Personnel including Jack Barron, General Manager on far righ... View Full Record
Logging - Diamond Match
2009.49.22
Diamond Match Officials and Logging Truck
Eleven Diamond Match men in hard hats standing in front of a full logging truck.... View Full Record
Logging - Diamond Match
2009.49.23
Diamond Match Company Sawmill
Diamond Match Saw mill. Stretched between the smokestacks says: D.M.C.O. 1916. One smokestack is active.... View Full Record
Logging - Diamond Match
2009.49.24
Diamond Match Company Sawmill Interior
Interior of a Diamond Match Saw mill, probably Superior, MT. Five men included: Jack Barron, and others.... View Full Record
Logging - Diamond Match
2009.49.25
Woman Worker at Diamond Match
One woman working on a machine inside a Diamond Match Company Mill, probably Superior, MT.... View Full Record
Logging - Operations
2009.49.34
Three images of horses used in logging. These are from a Diamond Match photo album and may have been taked at Priest Lake. From Jack Barren Collection... View Full Record
Logging - Log Drives
2009.49.35
Freeing logs with peavey pole
Diamond Match log drive in 1942 which was featured in The Timberman, July 1943. Six men try to free a log with peavey poles.... View Full Record
Logging - Log Drives
2009.49.37
Men on Bateau
1942 log drive on the Priest as featured in July 1943 Timberman. Men at Eight Mile Rapids sitting on the edge of the bateau. Men in the artlce lists as Ernest Ward, William whetsler, Joseph Gumaer, Herman Rouse, Paul LaMotte, Ole Nelson, Harry Gard... View Full Record
Logging - Log Drives
2009.49.44
Diamond Match log drive down the Priest River from an album of Jack Barren's. Shows crew lined up in the bateau. In a Oct. 2004 Timber article it identifies the photograph from the 1947 drive at Eight Mile rapids. Standing l to r, Bill Whetsler,... View Full Record
Logging - Diamond Match
2009.52.31
The road to Diamond Camp
Iced road two deep and wet tracks. The attached label says: "Road to Diamond Camp"... View Full Record
Logging - Diamond Match
2009.52.32
Timekeeper at Diamond Camp
Image of a man standing in the snow in front of a truck and logging camp buildings. There is a hillside in the background. The attached label says: "Timekeeper at Diamond"... View Full Record
Logging - Diamond Match
2009.52.34
Bringing in the horses at Diamond
Image of a line of hoses walking next to a Diamond Match logging camp building in the snow. The attached label says: "Bringing in horses at Diamond"... View Full Record
Logging - Log Drives
2009.52.36
Elmer Rogers and Leo Black - 1947 Log Drive along Priest River to Newport
Image of two men (Elmer Rogers and Leo Black with Peavies working a log jam. There is an additional peavy in the lower part of the image. Written on the back of the image is; "Elmer Rogers. Leo Black - head. 1947 Log Drive. Priest Lake to Newpo... View Full Record
Logging - Operations
2009.52.37
Two horses pulling a sled of logs through the snow
Image of two horses pulling a sled full of logs through the snow. There is a person on the front of the sled. Written on the back of the image is; "Camp 4. #44. No. 30."... View Full Record
Logging - Operations
2009.52.38
Load of Logs on a sled with people
Image of a sled full of logs in the snow. John Specht, foreman for the Dalkena, loaded 145 logs on a sled, breaking the regional record. There are 17 people (men, women and children) and two dogs next to as well as on the logs. There is a car in t... View Full Record
Logging - Diamond Match
2009.57.1
Logs coming out of Diamond Match Flume
Image of many logs laying flat on the ground. There are two men standing amongst the logs. On the right hand side of the image are two men pushing logs out of the Log flume. Trees in the background. Written on the tag for the image is: "logs com... View Full Record
Logging
2011.21.17
Decking Logs by Team at the C.W. Beardmore Sale 1923
Decking logs by team at the C.W. Beardmore sale on the West Branch of the Priest River Sale date 1/2/1923. K614. 11/1925 Whitham, James". ... View Full Record
Logging
2011.21.18
Man Guiding Log Down Chute, Beardmore Sale 1923
"Man guiding log down chute. Beardmore Sale on the West Brach of the Priest River. FS#172975 1923 Swan, K.D." Part of a series of pictures taken of the Beardmore operation. ... View Full Record
Logging
2011.21.19
Distellery Bay Sale, Logs in Chute Being Pulled by Two Horses 1923
"Distellery Bay, Logs in chute being pulled by 2 horses; Kaniksu Cedar Co., sale in Distellery Bay. 3/24/1923. FS#196985 5/1925". ... View Full Record
Logging
2011.21.20
Beardmore Sale 1923, Man Standing on Log Deck, Loading Logs onto Sleighs
"Beardmore Sale 1-2-23; Man standing on log deck. Loading onto sleighs at end of chute. Three other men in picture. Snow and stumps in background. FS#172985 1/2/1923 Swan, K.D." Part of a series of images taken of the Beardmore operation on the West... View Full Record
Logging
2011.21.21
Two Men with Crosscut Saw Cutting Downed Lumber. Beardmore Sale 1923
"Two men with crosscut saw cutting downed bug-killed lumber in the snow on Beardmore sale. FS#172976 2/28/1923". Part of a series of images taken of the Beardmore operation on the West Branch of the Priest River.... View Full Record
Logging
2011.21.22
C.W. Beardmore Sale 1923, Landing on Priest River, West Fork
"Landing on Priest River, West Fork. C.W. Beardmore Sale 1/2/1923. End of the sleigh haul. Logs will be driven in Spring to mill. Three men standing near log deck, snow. FS#172939 2/28/1923 Swan, K.D." ... View Full Record
Logging
2011.21.23
Log Drive on Priest River of White Pine and Cedar
"Log drive on Priest River of white pine and cedar. FS#208099 4/19/1926 Swan, K.D." Part of a series of images of the Beardmore operation on the West Branch of the Priest River... View Full Record
Logging
2011.21.24
Ruins of Beardmore's Camp, Called the Tunnel Camp
"Ruins of Beardmore's Camp, commonly called the tunnel camp. Building in left foreground is stable. FS#426898 9/1943 Swan, K.D." Part a series of images taken by K.D. Swan to document changes after logging.... View Full Record
Logging
2011.21.25
Forest Officers on Horse Drawn Sleigh Visiting Beardmore Timber Sale Logging Camp in Priest River
Caption reads: "Drake, Ogston and Peters Forest Officers on horse drawn sleigh visiting Beardmore Timber Sale area logging camp, Priest River. FS#172991 2/28/1923 Swan, K.D." ... View Full Record
Logging
2011.21.26
Loading Poles on Tuck Without Trailer at Beardmore Sale 1924
Caption reads: "Loading 40 & 45 foot poles on truck w/out trailer; man on vehicle working logs; from C.W. Beardmore sale, 1-2-24. k673 1926 McGillivray, Wm." ... View Full Record