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BRIDGE BUILDING TEAM, BOW RIVER BRIDGE SAW PIT, 1911

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SAW, Bert

c. 1911

Overview

A black and white enhanced image taken from a sepia print originally captioned: Pit-Saw, sawing timber taken at the building of the Bow River Bridge, Denmark - 1911. Eight men in work clothes are posed standing around a pit-sawing operation set in the bushland with a wood cart and horses in the background. There is a rough canvas shelter over the saw pit. Names of men from left to right: 1. Man standing in cart, 2. Man sitting in cart, 3. Harry Parker, 4, 5.Man with an axe, 6.Man with an adze, 7.Frank Read Jnr atop the saw pit beam, 8. Tom Fallows in the saw pit.

Historical information

Photo taken by Bert Saw. Pit sawing in Bow River area 1911.

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cwa-org-51-P1988.85

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Bert Shaw

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INDUSTRY & COMMERCE

Bow River Bridge, Denmark

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Albany Historical Society Inc

Albany Historical Society Inc

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