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Photo of the Nanaimo Junior Forest Wardens parade float as it moves down the road at an unidentified parade. This photo is focused on the right side of the Doman Industries transport truck hauling the float. The exterior of the truck is decorated with green crepe paper and streamers in various colours, with a large Doman Industries logo mounted above the grille. The front of the parade float can be seen behind the truck, decorated with miniature trees and carrying uniformed members of the JFW. To the left of the truck, a crowd of onlookers can be seen standing near a line of utility poles. The The Junior Forest Wardens is a Canadian volunteer-led organization focused on developing a wild lands conservation ethic in youth.
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The semi-trailer of a Doman Industries hauling truck sits parked in a dusty lot in an urban area. A workman balances wooden beams against the side of the semi-trailer. There is a display on the bed of the semi-trailer featuring, from right to left, a large section of a felled tree, a bale of banded lumber, and the wooden frame of a small shed. Above the felled tree there is a smaller section of a log with a target painted on it. A double-bit axe is embedded in the bullseye of the target. An advertising poster is pinned up below the target.
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In a rain-soaked Doman Industries parking lot, eleven men stand in a line in front of Doman industries transport truck no. 788, its bed laden with bales of lumber. A twelth man drives Doman Industries forklift no. 314, which is loading another bale onto the truck bed. The man third from the right is Herb Doman.
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Three men pose for a photo in a rain-soaked parking lot during an unidentified Doman Industries ribbon-cutting ceremony. The man in the centre is Herb Doman. The leftmost man might be Ted Doman. They are standing in front of Doman industries transport truck no. 788, its bed loaded with bales of lumber. Herb and the leftmost man each have a hand on the truck's door railing.
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Four men stand in a rain-soaked parking lot during an unidentified Doman Industries ribbon-cutting ceremony. Behind them, a fifth man sits in the driver's seat of Doman Industries forklift no. 314, which is currently loading lumber onto the bed of a transport truck. All of the men are looking toward the camera. A distant shoreline can be seen across a body of water in the background.
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A spray paint stencil for marking Doman Industries products with the "D Select" label, which resembles a simplified variant of the company's log cross-section logo. The stencil is coated with many layers of red-orange spray paint.
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A framed commemorative photo collage celebrating Herb Doman's history in the B.C. lumber industry. The collage includes five photos. Three photos, in black and white, include Herb Doman and various other businessmen. One black and white photo is of the cargo ship Ponderosa. The single colour photo includes Herb Doman and three other businessmen standing in front of a Price & Pierce Forest Products building. In the center of the photo collage is a plaque with the dedication. Price & Pierce Forest Products Ltd. is a distributor of timber and panel products. The Felicity 1 was a cargo ship built in Osaka, Japan in 1975. It sailed under the name Ponderosa between 1975 and 1982, and then again between 1994 and 1997.
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A tripartite fold-out poster collage of numerous photographs related to Doman Industries. There is no particular organization to the layout of the photos. The majority of the photos included consist of headshots and group shots of transport workers and sawmill workers, photos of processed timber and lumber yards, and photos of sawmilling equipment and transport trucks. Other miscellaneous photos feature subjects including the families and children of workers, a large landscape featuring a river running through farmland, and a photo of a tugboat on a lake. In the upper right corner of the leftmost section of the poster there is a single, small portrait of Herb Doman.
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A concrete wall bearing a poster of the logo of Doman Industries Ltd. The logo consists of the name of the company and a drawing of a cross-section of a log marked with a green letter "D".
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Herb Doman, wearing a striped red shirt, turns away from the driver's seat of an industrial vehicle to smile for the camera. A steering wheel and various knobs, dials and readout screens are visible on the dashboard in front of him. The vehicle appears built for left-hand traffic, with driver's seat placed on the right side of the cabin. The scene outside the vehicle's windows is out of focus and mostly illegible.