Forest History Oral History Project: Interview with Lester Pollard

Titles: Forest History Oral History Project: Interview with Lester Pollard (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Lester Pollard was born in 1907 near Lake of the Woods. He spent most of his life in the lumber business. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Early life; living in Warroad; going to school; local fisheries; the International Lumber Company; logging camps; logging railroads; pulpwood; bunk beds and bed bugs; camp food; camp horses; building a camp; various jobs in a logging camp; sky pilots visiting the camps; the town of Craigville being a rough city; wannigans; the changes to logging that unionization caused; Timber Producers Association; family.

Dates

• 02/17/1976 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewer: Esse, John
• interviewee: Pollard, Lester Ellsworth

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 142
• Accession Number: AV2012.1.37

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Forest History Oral History Project' <OH 142>

Quantity: 2 hours sound cassette 51 pages transcript 1 sound disc

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 03:09:02 running time

Subjects

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