Photograph of logs in the Southern Pine Lumber Company mill pond.

Photograph of the Southern Pine Lumber Company sawmill timber dock.

Photograph of a log splashing into the Southern Pine Lumber Company mill pond.

Photograph of three Southern Pine Lumber Company mill pond workers loading a log onto the "endless chain" to be dragged into the sawmill.

Photograph of a burning wood waste outside of the Southern Pine Lumber Company sawmill.

Photograph of Southern Pine Lumber Company workers with loaded lumber carts. Company housing can be seen in the background.

Photograph of dried stacked lath sitting in front of the Southern Pine Lumber Company dry kilns.

Photograph of a donkey pulling a lumber cart with a Southern Pine Lumber Company worker.

Photograph of the Star Hotel in Diboll, Texas. The hotel was built by 1903 and generally accommodated office personnel and traveling salesmen. It is where Southern Pine Lumber Company founder T. L. L. Temple stayed when visiting Diboll from Texarkana, Arkansas prior to the company library being built adjacent to the commissary circa 1908. The Star Hotel was remembered for its large dining room which fed up to thirty people at one time. The closure date is unknown but by 1939 the building had been torn down.

Photograph of Texas South-Eastern Railroad engine 3. Note the split wood fuel in the tender and the brakemen on the wooden car roofs. The TSE railroad was founded in 1900 by the same owners of Southern Pine Lumber Company and served the company's logging operations. It also provided passenger service from Diboll to Lufkin until 1942.

Photograph of Texas South-Eastern Railroad engines 1, 2 and 3. The TSE railroad was founded in 1900 by the same owners of Southern Pine Lumber Company and served the company's logging operations. It also provided passenger service from Diboll to Lufkin until 1942.

Photograph of Emmit Massingill, Southern Pine Lumber Company scaler. Cut timber is shown in the background.

Photograph of a high-wheeled, slip-tongue log skidder with its teams and driver. The driver would straddle the cart over felled logs, where dangling tongs would be positioned to raise the end of a log off the ground when the mules pulled the tongue forward, allowing the log to "skid" along under the cart's rolling wheels.

Photograph of Southern Pine Lumber Company log skidding teams and slip tongue log skidders, and cut timber in the foreground.

Photograph of two large Southern Pine Lumber Company mules used in logging, along with a company employee, who are likely a part of a skidder team. The skidder is not shown.

Photograph of cut timber along the right of way awaiting transportation to the Southern Pine Lumber Company sawmill.

Photograph of a Texas South-Eastern Railroad track crew laying the cross ties for a new right of way through the woods to access Southern Pine Lumber Company timber.

Photograph of a Southern Pine Lumber Company logging ox cart pulling two logs. Stacked timber is shown on the left as well as a man operating the cart.

Photograph of cut timber along a right of way, cut by the Southern Pine Lumber Company.

Photograph of a Southern Pine Lumber Company oxen crew and oxen in the woods.

Photograph of a Southern Pine Lumber Company oxen crew with oxen in the woods.

Photograph of two Southern Pine Lumber Company woods sawyers posing with a shortleaf pine near the Lindsey Springs logging camp, Angelina County. Lindsey Springs, located about seven miles northeast of Diboll, was a Southern Pine Lumber Company logging camp from about 1898 to 1906. According to the federal census of 1900, the community then had a population of 110.

Photograph of freshly cut timber stacked in the woods.

Photograph of a Mcgiffert log loader and crew of the Southern Pine Lumber Company loading logs onto rail cars.