Name/Title
Logging Choker Chain PhotographsEntry/Object ID
2026.024.001Description
Photographs of large hand-forged iron choker chain that was used in early logging on Whidbey Island, circa 1890. Length is about 11 feet, weight is about 150 pounds. Found near edge of 300-foot bluff overlooking Possession Sound, between Glendale and Possession Point Beach. Appears to have laid buried in shallow earth for more than 100 years.
Donor's older brother worked as a logger in Washington and Alaska when he was a young man. In a letter from him in the 1970s, he wrote: "You cannot imagine the tedium of setting chokers in the Tongass National Forest."Photograph Details
Type of Photograph
DigitalSubject
Logging Choke ChainSubject Place
Location
Possession PointCity
ClintonCounty
Island CountyState/Province
WashingtonCountry
United States of AmericaContinent
North AmericaRegion
Whidbey Island, Salish SeaAcquisition
Accession
2026.024Source or Donor
Milord, LisaAcquisition Method
GiftCredit Line
Mark LundquistLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Print, PhotographicNomenclature Primary Object Term
PhotographNomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsLOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Logging, Chains
