I have a large mounted photo of a great-uncle, born in 1870, who worked as a piecer in a woollen mill. He and a couple of other fellow workers in the picture had dirty bare feet and ragged shirts and could barely manage a smile for the photographer. Sadly he died young from a lung related illness, no doubt caused through breathing in the fibres and other working conditions in the mill. All his 10 siblings worked in the mill from the age of 10. His sister, my grandmother, died at the age of 45 from a similar cause. I never knew her. (Sorry, nothing to do with logging camps!)
