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George Washington Cummings, A Man's Job

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George Washington Cummings, A Man's Job
George Washington Cummings and his son, George Lawrence Cummings, ready to go to the woods to cut a Christmas tree. December, 1916
Date & Place: at Railroad Hay Station in three Mile Bay, New York USA
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1916 NY - getting ready to go out in the woods and cut down a Christmas tree. With the size of that saw, I'm thinking it's going to be a really big tree!!
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12/09/2019
A 2 man cross cut saw.had one for years ,gave to a friend to paint a scene of some kind on it.
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12/09/2019
Yea...a bit of an over kill for a Christmas tree. Cool photo!
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12/09/2019
Well since they cut all the trees last month. We will walk 40 Miles to cut your Christmas tree, and it will cost &/$ 400!
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12/09/2019
Omgosh, right?
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12/09/2019
Better for your tool to be too big than too small I always say. Lol
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12/09/2019
Maybe it was the only saw he had
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12/09/2019
Back in those days they use whatever they had
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12/09/2019
And not to mention, it was the beginning of the dust bowl!
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12/09/2019
they would have used a bow saw instead of this one for a Christmas tree.
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12/09/2019
World’s skinniest surfboard. They’ve fixin’ to surf the Volga.
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I LOVE the old pictures...Please keep them coming !!!
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George Lawrence Cummings
George Lawrence Cummings was born to George Washington Cummings (1850 or 53 - 1926) and Mary Catherine Derosia (1882 - 1969) in Three Mile Bay New York. He had siblings Gladys Mae, Hattie Margaret, and Alec J. Cummings, and they were all raised in Lyme New York. George Cummings married Henrietta J Bergh (1911 - 1987) on May 10, 1930 in Watertown, New York, and they had children Vivian E. Bergh, Barbara Jean, Betty Gwendolyn and George Nelson Cummings. When he was in his 20's, George was a laborer in a freight house. In his 40's, he was a driver of an oil truck for an oil and gas company. He continued to reside in Watertown until his death in 1986.
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