Transporting Logs

logs lifted up by booms

"Dry log pond. Since none of our species would float, sawlogs, as they came in from the woods, were unloaded and segregated by species, and advanced to the sawmill by a series of six booms like the two shown."

Item record
Publication
Manifest Destiny in Southeast Asia: Archaeology of American Colonial Industry in the Philippines, 1898–1987
Item type
Unpublished manuscript / report
Data type
Archival data
Current location
Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley
Creator
Charles Tebbe
Creation date
Digital scan produced in 2023, photographs originally taken 1932-33
Collection
Butauanan figures
Documentation

Archival methods

Aerial spy photography collected by the United States in January 1945 covered part of the research area between modern-day San Vicente (Campo Cuatro) and Sagrada (Campo Seis). After gaining access to these photos from NARA, we created an orthomosaic of the overlapping images and georeferenced it to generate topographic data and trace visible sections of the rail line (Supplemental Figure 12).

In 1932 and 1933, a 24-year-old logging engineer Charles Tebbe identified inefficiencies at the Camp Isarog mill and set up a new mill site in Tandoc; while there he took many photos (see Figures 3–5; Supplemental Figures 1–10).

His travelogue and photos were bound into a single copy of a book, "Butuanan," held at UC Berkeley's Bancroft library.

Reuse
Copyright holder
Bancroft Library
Recommended citation

Meyer-Lorey, Robin and Stephen Acabado, 2024. Transporting Logs for "Manifest Destiny in Southeast Asia: Archaeology of American Colonial Industry in the Philippines, 1898–1987." American Antiquity (2024): 1-22. doi:10.1017/aaq.2024.24