Great Southern Lumber Company motion picture film, 1927.

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Great Southern Lumber Company motion picture film, 1927.

Silent film approximately 15 minutes long shows forestry activities of the company, including charcoal production, logging, fire control and prevention procedures, and seeding and reforesting activities.

1 reel.1 videocassette.

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The Great Southern Lumber Company was chartered in Pennsylvania in 1902. The Goodyear family, owners of the company, purchased land and erected a sawmill for the cutting of pine timber in Washington Parish, Louisiana, at the future site of the town of Bogalusa. The lumber company expanded into other enterprises including the establishment of the New Orleans Great Northern Railroad (1905), the Bogalusa Paper Company, the Bogalusa Turpentine Company, Bogalusa Tung Oil, Inc., and the Bogalusa Store...