Love Michigander lumberjacks! My great-great-great grandmother and her daughter, my great-great gran
Love Michigander lumberjacks! My great-great-great grandmother and her daughter, my great-great grandmother, worked in a lumberjack camp in Manistee, Michigan. They were the cooking, cleaning, sewing, laundry women of the camp and trying to make ends meet after my great-great-great grandfather died. They kept a rusty non-working shot gun in their cabin to scare off lumberjacks who occasionally came along and gave them “trouble”. I imagine it must have been scary to move to such an isolated place with no other women or families, plus the work sounds extremely hard!mudwerks:(via I’m a Lumberjack: 1899 | Shorpy Historical Photo Archive)Upper Michigan circa 1899. “The loggers.” 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size. -- source link
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