Flannel Shirt

Timber Hospital

For the loggers.

DDT is good for me

19th Century Oregon loggers

Southern Oregon, 1910

Yeah, the tree is big, but check out that saw.

Mail-order house

Neolithic farmers, rock painting

Jersey trolley, at the Morgan drawbridge

Lumberyard of Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing, 1939

Librarians on horses

A small part of the WPA was a group of librarians who would deliver reading material on horseback to rural readers. 

Treasure trove

They found a medieval treasure trove in the Abbey of Cluny in France. It contained:

§ more than 2,200 silver deniers and oboles -- mostly minted by the Abbey of Cluny and probably dating to the first half of the 12th century -- in a cloth bag, traces of which remain on some of the coins

§ a tanned hide bundle, found among the silver coins, fastened with a knot, and enclosing

o 21 Islamic gold dinars struck between 1121 and 1131 in Spain and Morocco, under the reign of Ali ibn Yusuf (1106-1143), who belonged to the Berber Almoravid dynasty.

o a gold signet ring with a red intaglio depicting the bust of a god and an inscription possibly dating the ring back to the first half of the 12th century

o a folded sheet of gold foil weighing 24 g and stored in a case

o a small circular object made of gold