Skip to main content

Lumber camp locomotive. Forest County, Wisconsin. Note special smokestack to catch sparks.

Artwork Tombstone
ArtistRussell Lee (American, 1903–1986)
TitleLumber camp locomotive. Forest County, Wisconsin. Note special smokestack to catch sparks.
DateApril 1937
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 6 15/16 × 7 7/16 in. (17.6 × 18.9 cm)
Credit LineHenry Holmes Smith Archive, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number79.200.XX.1.222
This artwork is currently off display. You may be able to see this artwork by filling out an art viewing room request.
A horizontal black-and-white photograph depicts a train engine in a lumber camp. Steam is billowing from the engine. Piles of burlap sacks, oil barrels, and a wooden crate litter the ground around the tracks.

A horizontal black-and-white photograph depicts a train engine in a lumber camp. Steam is billowing from the engine. Piles of burlap sacks, oil barrels, and a wooden crate litter the ground around the tracks.

Provenance research is ongoing for this and many other items in the Eskenazi Museum of Art permanent collection. For more information about the provenance of this artwork, please contact the department curator with specific questions.

Request this image
The Eskenazi Museum of Art provides images of its collection, free of charge, upon request.
This artwork is under copyright protection. You can request the image and it will be emailed to you when the request is complete.

Cite this page
"Lumber camp locomotive. Forest County, Wisconsin. Note special smokestack to catch sparks. | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2025. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=79.200.XX.1.222