A black-and-white view of a logging crew wit roughly two dozen men in overalls, work shirts and wide-brimmed hats posed standing along a high stack of cut tree trunks, with a steam donkey engine and its tall smokestack at the right and a horse-drawn wagon at the left. Felled logs lie scattered in the grass in the foreground. Such group portraits were commonly made by itinerant photographers to record a camp's season output during the peak of steam-era logging in North America.
Postcard Details
Message · English, in pen
1926
Sawing logs for
Messing Farm
Addressed to
No address detected
Postcard record
Condition
Fair
Notes
Black-and-white photographic print, no white border, no printed text on front. Visible staining (brown spot in sky, dark blotch at left), scratches and overall fading; image otherwise legible.
No postmark readable. Divided-back real-photo card with AZO-style stamp box; handwritten note dated 1926 in blue ink on correspondence side; small brown stain near center of back.
Cite this card
Logging crew posed on stacked logs with steam donkey engine, Messing Farm, 1926, postcard, c. 1926. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/logging-crew-posed-on-stacked-logs-steam-engine-messing-farm. Accessed October 14, 2026.
