Very little is known about Thomas E. Armitstead, the photographer. He seems to have been working for the land development department of the Mobile & Ohio Railroad and was in the Mobile area only a short time, ca. 1895.
    The M&O RR leased its timber lands to various logging companies. Pictured here is a narrow gauge engine belonging to the M. L. Davis logging operation near Oak Grove, Alabama.

Negative: A-317 (detail)

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