35 results for: Lumber and Logging
Wooden trunk belonging to Henry Yesler, ca. 1855
Henry Yesler (1810-1892) made this trunk and brought it with him on his first trip west to Seattle, arriving in 1852. He soon built the first steam-powered sawmill on Puget Sound, helping to turn a small collection of houses into a thriving town. He also helped establish the Seattle Water Company and was a partner in the gaslight business that…
ID Number:1949.49.1
Date:Circa 1855
Oil landscape painting featuring a Foss tug chugging across Commencement Bay in Tacoma, Washington, ca. 1930-1940
The tug Justine Foss, named for youngest daughter of Wedell and Edith Foss, leaves Tacoma Harbor. An industrialized shoreline including Hooker Chemicals, the St. Regis pulp mill, St. Paul lumber mill and Dickman Lumber, sprawls beneath the pristine backdrop of Mount Rainier. To the left is a big log dump where enormous “cigar” log rafts arrived from the Olympic Peninsula.…
ID Number:1953.299.a
Date:Circa 1930-1940
Douglas fir cross section cut near Eatonville, Washington, and dated to about 800 years old
The Douglas fir from which this cross section was cut grew for 778 years in the lower Cascades region of Washington State. The lighter coloring at the outer edge indicates the section that is younger and contains less resin. The fir was cut and a section saved for MOHAI by Weyerhaueuser Timber Company. The age was determined by the Institute…
ID Number:1955.1404
Date:Circa 12th century
Miniature saw, souvenir of Labor Day, 1890
This small saw is inscribed "Labor Day Souvenir // Seattle, September 1, 1890." Saws were used both in logging and shipbuilding, two of Seattle’s most important 19th-century industries. The idea of “a general holiday for the laboring classes” was first proposed in the early 1880s and quickly gained steam across the country. It became an official federal holiday in 1894.
ID Number:1958.1521.3
Date:1890
"Lumberman's Day, July 3rd" pin from the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE), 1909
The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE) was a world's fair held in Seattle in 1909. It publicized the development of the Pacific Northwest and positioned Seattle as a gateway to Alaska and the Pacific Rim. Each day of the fair was dedicated to a special individual or group. This pin is from “Lumberman’s Day” on July 3rd.
ID Number:1960.1818.2
Date:1909
Oil portrait of Henry Yesler by unknown artist, ca. 1850-1890
On July 8, 1885, voters elected Henry Yesler (1810-1892) as mayor of the City of Seattle. Yesler had served a previous one-year term beginning in 1874. His total education consisted of a few years in a log-cabin school, but when he arrived in Seattle in 1852, he turned the place into a real town instead of a collection of a…
ID Number:1960.1924
Date:Circa 1850-1890
Oil portrait of Joshua Green and Dwight Merrill by Charles J. Fox, ca. 1950
Joshua Green (1869–1975) was a sternwheeler captain, businessman, and eventually an established banker, purchasing the Peoples Savings Bank in Seattle in 1925. He changed the name to Peoples Bank and Trust Co. two years later. Richard Dwight (R.D.) Merrill (1869-1964), came to the Pacific Northwest in the 1890's to establish timber holdings. His father had formed the Merrill and Ring…
ID Number:1960.1963
Date:Circa 1950
Bedstead brought to Seattle by Captain Renton ca. 1850s
Captain William Renton and his family sailed from the East Coast, around Cape Horn, and up to San Francisco in 1850. The family then moved to the Puget Sound where he owned a sawmill until 1863, when he relocated to Blakely harbor on Bainbridge Island and established the Port Blakely Mill Company. He was a major investor in the coal…
ID Number:1960.2014.4
Date:Circa 1850
Pair of brown leather logging boots, 1950
These logging "cork" boots were handmade by Currin-Greene Shoe Co. in Seattle.
ID Number:1962.2545
Date:Circa 1950
Box made from wood from Yesler's Mill, ca. 1909
Henry Yesler built the first steam-powered sawmill in Seattle in 1852. It was instrumental in developing this small white settler town into a thriving city. The mill burned down in the Great Seattle Fire of 1889, but wood from the mill was found during the excavation of the public comfort station at Pioneer Place in 1909. This box was made…
ID Number:1963.3093.1
Date:Circa 1909