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Series 3: Field documentation arranged by fieldworker (continued)
Malachi O'Connor (continued)
Field photography on color slide film
BOX-FOLDER 16/142 C log (color photo log)
Author: Malachi O'Connor
Digital content available: afc1991023_16_142
Extent: 33 manuscript pages (8.5 x 14 inch or smaller)
Call number: AFC 1991/023: CMO-001 Clifford Frazee at his cedar cutting grounds near Brookville, New Jersey, October 14, 1983
Photographer: Malachi O'Connor
Field project identifier: PFP-83-CMO-001
Digital content available: afc1991023_cmo_001
Extent: 19 color film transparencies (35mm slide)
These photographs attempt to document the cedar cutting operation of Clifford Frazee and his son Steve. The pictures are arranged in the order of steps taken by the Frazees. For further information please refer to PFP-83-FM01014 and the corresponding black and white contact shoots. G-Forked River; 49GT; 1-6, Shots of the land being clear-cut by the Frazees; 1, looks into the area to be cut next; 2-4, look north from the shadows of the area to be cut next, 5-6, look west, the direction from which we entered the cedar swamp; 7, The truck with winch used to hoist the logs onto the truck. Steve is on the truck and Cliff is looking for the next log to go on; 8, Steve wraps the hooked cable around a group of logs near the butt of the log, preparing them for hoisting up to the truck; 3, The logs are on the truck, and Steve unhooks the cable; 10, Steve pulls the cable (as Cliff gives it slack from the controls) in order to get the cable to the next group of logs; 11-12, The pulley, at the end of the beam, through which the cable runs that is used to hoist the logs; 13-14, Logs lined up by the side of the corduroy road that are positioned to make the hoisting as easy as possible; 15, The butt end of a cedar log; 16-20, Cliff hands the logs 3-5 inches in diameter to Steve to be placed at the top of the load. These logs will be used for fenceposts. ( The cutting process continues on PFP-83-CM0002.)
Call number: AFC 1991/023: CMO-002 Clifford Frazzee at North Branch cedar swamp, New Jersey, October 14, 1983
Photographer: Malachi O'Connor
Field project identifier: PFP-83-CMO-002
Digital content available: afc1991023_cmo_002
Extent: 20 color film transparencies (35mm slide)
This is a continuation of the cedar cutting process began in PFP-83-CM0001. G-Forked River; 49GT; 1-4, The truck loaded and ready to be driven to the sawmill later when the next steps of the cutting operation are completed; 5-8, Trees that have just been felled. (Refer to BLOG to see the cutting of those trees). This is the next step after loading the truckwith logs that had been cut on the last cutting day; 9, Limbs of felled trees must be trimmed. Cliff begins this, the most time consuming of the steps in the cedar cutting process; 10-15, Cliff using an axe to cut limbs off trees; 16-18, Steve and Cliff cutting limbs; 19-20,: Steve cutting limbs. (Continued on CMO003)COLOR PHOTO LOG
Call number: AFC 1991/023: CMO-003 Clifford Frazee at his cedar cutting grounds near Brookville, New Jersey, October 14, 1983
Photographer: Malachi O'Connor
Field project identifier: PFP-83-CMO-003
Digital content available: afc1991023_cmo_003
Extent: 20 color film transparencies (35mm slide)
This file is a continuation of PFP-83-CM0001/002. Please note the depth of foliage, and the balance necessary to work in this swamp while knee deep in trees and tree debris. G-Forked River; 49GT; 1, Steve pauses while cutting limbs with axe and throws limb toward corduroy road; 2-3,: Logs after limbs have been cut off. Notice that limbs are cut so that log has no stubs afterward, just one smooth surface. A very difficult operation; 4, Axe placed in stump when not in use; 5-6, The thin brown stick in these pictures Is 8 feet long and used by Steve to measure trees, once the limbs are cut the off they are logs; 7-9, Steve uses the stick to measure logs in this series. Every two lengths he marks the log by notching it with his axe. (Refer to PFP-83-BMO215661-05); 10, When enough logs are notched, they are cut into 16 foot lengths with a chainsaw. Here Cliff prepares to cut; 11, Cliff cutting horizontally; 12, Cliff holding chainsaw vertically to make cut; 13-14, Cliff begins a cut when point of cut is in the air by cutting from the top down. In 14 he finishes the cut from the bottom up so the sawi won't bind in the log, thus avoiding possible injury; 15, Cliff trims limbs while Steve cuts lengths with his chain saw. This is as close as they get to each other while cutting; 16, Steve walking on log and looking for next log to cut; 17, Steve cutting with chainsaw while standing on brush; 18-20, Steve cutting with chain saw while standing on logs. (This part of the cutting operation is continued on PFP-83-CM0004.)
Call number: AFC 1991/023: CMO-004 Clifford Frazee at his cedar cutting grounds near Brookville, New Jersey, October 14, 1983
Photographer: Malachi O'Connor
Field project identifier: PFP-83-CMO-004
Digital content available: afc1991023_cmo_004
Extent: 17 color film transparencies (35mm slide)
This is a continuation of CMO 001-003; 1-4, Steve cutting with chain saw with left leg forward on log and right leg back on ground or brush; 5, Steve using chain saw with right leg back and up on log and left leg forward in brush. This series is designed to show kinesis of cutting logs with chain saw. Both Cliff and Steve, his son, hold the trgger handle with their right hands and the upper handle with their left; 6-9, Before the logs are cut to length (and afterward) the are taken to the corduroy road and placed on top of the logs there. This series shows Cliff doing just that. (For a description of the corduroy road see FMO001); 10, Steve carrying brush to corduroy road; 11, A blurred picture of limbs on road; 12-13, Limbs on roadbed. Also in this picture are 16 foot long cedar logs that have been flipped end over end or dragged to the side of the road, where they can be hoisted on the truck the next time the Frazees come to the cedar swamp. Also in 13 the end of the corduroy road can bo seen. Cliff brings a maple or gum tree that they have cut down to use in the road bed; 14, Steve moves log toward road; 15-17, Logs lined up by the side of the road for pickup next time. This marks the end of slides on cedar cutting by Cliff and Steve Frazee.
Call number: AFC 1991/023: CMO-005 Sawmill; Cedar cutting, Forked Mill, New Jersey, October 21, 1983
Photographer: Malachi O'Connor
Field project identifier: PFP-83-CMO-005
Digital content available: afc1991023_cmo_005
Extent: 20 color film transparencies (35mm slide)
Call number: AFC 1991/023: CMO-006 Sawmilling of cedar log, New Jersey, October 14, 1983
Photographer: Malachi O'Connor
Field project identifier: PFP-83-CMO-006
Digital content available: afc1991023_cmo_006
Extent: 20 color film transparencies (35mm slide)
This is a continuation of PFP-83-CMO005 on the cutting of a cedar log; 1, The log returning to starting position as Steve pushes lever all the way to the left; 2, Similar to #1, but from further outside the shed; 3, Once the log has returned to its starting position, Steve lines it up for the second pass; 4, Second pass through blade; 5, Steve's brother holds board to ensure an accurate cut; 6, The completion of the second cut as seen from outside the shed, behind Steve at the lever; 7, Steve begins to move the lever to the left so log can return to starting position. This marks the end of this series; 8-11, These shots show cuts along the vertical sides of what may end up as a 4x8 or two 4x4's. The opposite end of the tracks can be seen also, and the cable that pulls the carriage along the track. The slabs from earlier cuts are to the right of the track. Also note the shoot, diagonal board on the left, that takes the sawdust from pit under tho blade to the truck shown in PFP-83-CMO005; 12-14, Here the blade is cutting the horizontal edges of what might become a 4x8 inch board; 15-17, The log sitting on the carriage and being lined up (#17) just before passing it through the blade. These are similar to shots in CMO005 but are taken from inside the shed at the point where the log stops at the end of a cut before returning to its starting position; 18, Steve fills the radiator (I think); 19-20, The saw blade and fan belt assembly, with (in #20) lever mechanism for moving cable that pulls the carriage with the log on it through the blade. REMAINING PICTURES IN THIS SEQUENCE ARE IN PFP-83-CM0016.
Call number: AFC 1991/023: CMO-007 Trip to Steve Frazee's sawmill, Forked River, New Jersey, October 14, 1983
Photographer: Malachi O'Connor
Field project identifier: PFP-83-CMO-007
Digital content available: afc1991023_cmo_007
Extent: 15 color film transparencies (35mm slide)
Visit to Steve Frazee's sawmill, G-Forked River; 49GT; 1, Yard to right of mill showing driveway entrance to mill; 2, Stack of slabs used for log cabins in the woods. I think this was cut for a man who wanted to build a cabin, but he never picked up the lumber; 3-4, View looking down the 4x12s that support logs before they are roll ed onto the saw carriage; 5, Another view of logs waiting to be cut with slabs in foreground. These are not slabs used in corduroy road. These are not scrap, but thicker for siding a building; 6: View looking in shed at the wheel that the fan belt runs around; 7-8, A look at the mill and carriage that carries the log through the saw blade; 9; Steve adjusts log as it passes through the blade; 10: Steve looks for next log, while brother Butch stacks slabs; 11-12, A 4x4 in the making; 13, The rails the carriage rides on seen from the other end away from the blade. The cable between the rails pulls the carriage; 14-15, Two more shots from the same end as # 13.COLOR PHOTO LOG
Call number: AFC 1991/023: CMO-008 First visit to Bill Lucas' woodworking shop, South Pemberton, New Jersey, October 21, 1983
Photographer: Malachi O'Connor
Field project identifier: PFP-83-CMO-008
Digital content available: afc1991023_cmo_008
Extent: 16 color film transparencies (35mm slide)
Bill Lucas' woodworking shop G-South Pemberton: 21GT; 1-2, Bill Lucas and his mother standing in the driveway between his shop and the house where he and his mother and father live. A visitor present at the time said that the background of logs and especially that enormous walnut stump was the perfect image to associate with Bill and his work; 3, The 1955 Chevy truck that Bill uses to haul logs when he goes to a person's land to remove a tree, often a walnut tree, and cut it up; 4, Bill 's father, who is 95 years old, as he prepares to go with Bill to pick up some lumber; 5, Bill's shop complex as seen from the top of a pile of logs. His house would be on the far side of the shop. I am standing in a yard filled with oak, walnut, map le, etc. logs. The shed seen dierectly houses the sawmill that his father used to run when Bill was a child. Bill now uses it for all his milling; 6-8; Close-up of the sawmill; 9, View with back to sawmill, out into the yard where Bill stacks his logs for a year until they are milled. This and the next few photos show Bill's arrangement of his yard, and how he stacks logs. No, not necessarily according to type of wood; 10, Same position a few feet further down; 11, Butt of log in #10 at right, at mid-depth of the photo. Bill paints the butts to avoid rot; 12, A right turn at the log of #11 brings you to this view and Rte. 532? that passes in front of Bill's shop and house; 13, A left: turn at #11 brings this pile of logs into view; 14: Painted butts of two logs in yard in front of sawmill; 15-16, Rotting log in yard in front of sawmill.
Call number: AFC 1991/023: CMO-009 Second visit to Lee family: trip to cranberry and blueberry fields and packing houses, New Jersey, November 19, 1983
Photographer: Malachi O'Connor
Field project identifier: PFP-83-CMO-009
Digital content available: afc1991023_cmo_009
Extent: 15 color film transparencies (35mm slide)
Trip to berry fields and packing houses with Stephen and Abbot Lee G-Chatsworth Road; 27GT (Rt. 563); 1-2, Stephen (on right) and Abbot stand next to cutting beds in nursery section of farm next to the packing house; 3, Southeast of packing houses; 4, North side of packing house; 5, Building next to packing house; 6, Standing in front of packing house looking across Rt. 563 at blueberry fields; 7, Bog iron near white buildings in Frame 6; 8-10, A concrete "gate"--the gate most commonly used by the Lees now (for water). The concrete pipe would be under water and through the dam; 11-15, Blueberry fields across from the packing houses.
Call number: AFC 1991/023: CMO-010 Interview with Darlingtons at their cranberry farming operation, Whitesbog, New Jersey, November 18, 1983
Photographer: Malachi O'Connor
Field project identifier: PFP-83-CMO-010
Digital content available: afc1991023_cmo_010
Extent: 20 color film transparencies (35mm slide)
Visit to the Darlington's cranberry operation G-Whitesbog; 21GT; 1, The Darlington's off ice and metal shop; 2, The right side of the road standing from the same spot as Frame 1; 3-5, The bogs in the distance of Frame 2. You can see these near-perfect bogs from the office window and pass some of them (Frame 3) when driving to the office; 6-7, Fieldworker Mary Hufford talking to Mark Darlington with shed holding cranberry boxes behind and to the left of them; 8, One of the Darlington's machine sheds; 9-10, Worker's houses; 11-13, Blueberry harvester invented by Tom Darlington; 14, Close up of the shafts that vibrate and knock berries off branches and down to metal leaves below, where a fan blows them to the conveyor belt on bottom right; 15, Conveyor belt to carry cranberries from bog to truck; 16-17, Harvester; 18-20, Floating cranberry harvester invented by Tom Darlington. This machine has the advantage of not ruining the bog by driving over it with wheels.
Call number: AFC 1991/023: CMO-011 Interview with Mark Darlington, Whitesbog, New Jersey, November 18, 1983
Photographer: Malachi O'Connor
Field project identifier: PFP-83-CMO-011
Digital content available: afc1991023_cmo_011
Extent: 17 color film transparencies (35mm slide)
Visit to the Darlington's cranberry operation G-Whitesbog; 21GT; 1, Looking out from the machine shed at boxes used to carry cranberries; 2-6, More shots of cranberry boxes; 7-8, The sorting machine; 9-15, Shots of the plane, the fertilizer, and the loading of the fertilizer onto the plane that the Darlingtons rant to fertilize their fields; 16-17, Blueberry fields as seen when I turned me back on the plane.
Call number: AFC 1991/023: CMO-012 Visit with George Heinrichs; Trip to Nottingham Gun Club with George Heinrichs, New Jersey, November 18, 1983
Photographer: Malachi O'Connor
Field project identifier: PFP-83-CMO-012
Digital content available: afc1991023_cmo_012
Extent: 16 color film transparencies (35mm slide)
Pictures of photographs in George Heinrich's possession. The photos show a forest fire in which the Jersey Devil may be seen in the smoke. Photo taken by a relative of George Heinrichs, G-New Gretna; 15GT; Visit to Nottingham Gun Club with George Heinrichs. G-New Gretna; 15GT; 5, Map on wall of gun club; 6, Door leading to bunk toom from living room; 7, Banner on wall of living room; 8-10, Main room (living room) looking toward bunk room; 11, Main room, pivoting to look at front door and fireplace. It looks like a lot of the action occurs at that end possibly; at least when it's not Deer Week and crowded; 12, George Heinrichs standing in bunk room; 13-16, More shots of bunk room. I am standing at the door from the main room.
Call number: AFC 1991/023: CMO-013 Trip to Nottingham Gun Club with George Heinrichs near New Gretna, New Jersey, November 18, 1983
Photographer: Malachi O'Connor
Field project identifier: PFP-83-CMO-013
Digital content available: afc1991023_cmo_013
Extent: 12 color film transparencies (35mm slide)
Visit to Nottingham Gun Club with George Heinrichs, the club's guide, near G-New Gretna; 15GT; 1, George Heinrichs and fieldworker Bonnie Blair in the bar of the club; 2, Wall of barroom on which hang such things as shirt tails of those members who shot at a deer and missed; 3, Same wall (to the right in Frame 1) of barroom further down toward the bar itself; 4, George Heinrichs standing next to rock/skull and newspaper article that had a picture that looked like the rock; 5, Close-up of rock and article; 6, Framed articles about Nottingham Gun Club; 7, Barroom as seen when standing with back to the bar; 8, Mounted pheasant; 9-12, The kitchen in the gun club.
Call number: AFC 1991/023: CMO-014 Nottingham Gun Club exterior shots near New Gretna, New Jersey, November 19, 1983
Photographer: Malachi O'Connor
Field project identifier: PFP-83-CMO-014
Digital content available: afc1991023_cmo_014
Extent: 16 color film transparencies (35mm slide)
Exterior shots of Nottingham Gun Club near G-New Gretna;15GT; Sign in front says "Hamilton Sq."; 1-2, Side of club facing road. I was standing at the entrance to the Garden State Parkway across the street. Front door is at end where trucks are parked; 3-5, Front of gun club with signs out front; 6-7, George Heinrichs at his truck; 8, Front view of club. Living room is on right side and bunk room on left; 9-10, Chimney end view of club and surrounding yard. The addition is the barroom; 11-13, Shots of back of club; 14, Shot of gable end of club (at bunk room addition end.); 15, Standing in the same spot as Frame 14 I took a picture of the back of the lot; 16, Same position and pivot to shoot the entrance to the parkway.
Call number: AFC 1991/023: CMO-015 Driving around to gun clubs in the New Gretna area, New Jersey, November 19, 1983
Photographer: Malachi O'Connor
Field project identifier: PFP-83-CMO-015
Digital content available: afc1991023_cmo_015
Extent: 10 color film transparencies (35mm slide)
1-4, Cape Island Deer Club near G-New Gretna; 15GT; 5-7, Janvier Deer Club near G-New Gretna; 15GT; 8-10, Bayview Gun Club near G-New Gretna; 15GT.
Call number: AFC 1991/023: CMO85-001 Houses on Pine Road, New Jersey, 1985
Photographer: Malachi O'Connor
Field project identifier: PFP-85-CMO-001
Digital content available: afc1991023_cmo85_001
Extent: 20 color film transparencies (35mm slide)
All frames: Houses on Pine Road.
Call number: AFC 1991/023: CMO85-002 Houses and cemetery plot, New Jersey, 1985
Photographer: Malachi O'Connor
Field project identifier: PFP-85-CMO-002
Digital content available: afc1991023_cmo85_002
Extent: 16 color film transparencies (35mm slide)
Houses and cemetery plot.
Call number: AFC 1991/023: CMO85-003 Houses and barns on Pine Road, New Jersey, 1985
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