Logs clamped onto a carrier -- like the heroine in old movie melodramas -- travel inexorably toward the teeth of the saw. With no Dick Daring or Fred Fortitude to effect a rescue -- the helpless hunks of hemlock are sliced like sandwich bread. Levers operated by the sawyer "spot" the logs for cutting to desired thickness.

Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Logs clamped onto a carrier -- like the heroine in old movie melodramas -- travel inexorably toward the teeth of the saw. With no Dick Daring or Fred Fortitude to effect a rescue -- the helpless hunks of hemlock are sliced like sandwich bread. Levers operated by the sawyer "spot" the logs for cutting to desired thickness.

Wide World Photos, Inc. · [ca. April 1943]

RightsCC0 — Public Domain

CollectionDigital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

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