Photographer John Collier traveled to the timber holdings of the Brown Company in western Maine near the New Hampshire border in May 1943. He camped with the woodsmen whose job was to guide thousands of heavy slippery logs on the spring pulpwood drive down the Kennebago River and Mooselookmeguntic Lake toward distant pulp and paper mills.
He documented the job of woodsmen, how they deftly used pikes to maneuver the pulpwood, even riding the logs themselves to usher them through treacherous waters toward their destination.
