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Forest History Collections
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Collections of the Texas Forestry Museum
include:
Baker Collection: Forest industry annual reports, 12.5 linear feet.
East Texas Sawmill Database©: electronic file covers Texas mills from
1819 to the present (4,665 records). Researched and produced by the
Texas Forestry Museum. Supporting vertical files are in the museum
library.
East Texas Tram and Logging Railroads Database©: electronic file includes
Texas logging lines. 369 records. Researched and produced by the Texas
Forestry Museum.
Kirby Lumber Company: papers and photographs. 2.5 linear feet.
Lufkin Foundry & Machine Company: technical drawings of sawmill equipment
and mill layouts, Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana, 1904-1945, 175 drawings.
Moscow, Camden and San Augustine Railroad and Shreveport, Houston
& Gulf Railroad (W.T. Carter lines) papers: 1899 to 1960, 80 linear
feet.
Photo Collection: 3500 photos of Texas logging and forest products
manufacturing enterprises, including sawmill towns and logging railroads.
Southland Paper Mills, Inc.: papers and photographs, 6 linear feet.
Smokey Bear: educational material, posters, stamps, memorabilia, 13
linear feet.
Texas Forest Products Manufacturing Association: papers, 1 linear
feet.
Texas Forest Service: papers and publications, 19 linear feet.
Texas Forest Service: newsletters, bound, four volumes, 1921 - 1989.
Texas Forestry Association: papers and newsletters, 5 linear feet.
Texas Lumber Manufacturers Association: papers, 2.5 linear feet.
Thompson photos: photographs of Thompson lumber interests in Texas
in 1908, taken for a September 1908 issue of American Lumberman. 288
original photos in four leather albums.
Numerous small groupings or individual records are also in the Museum's
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