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Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Co., circa 1917
Lumber was one of the Puget Sound's main exports in the 1890s. In 1899, 200,000 board feet of milled lumber left Seattle every day by rail or ship for the eastern United States and various Pacific ports. Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Company began operations in 1917. The company, starting with some houses and a mill store, built a small community atop…
ID Number:1966.3827.2
Date:Circa 1917
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Portrait of Pacific Stone Company employees, Seattle, 1927
Pacific Stone Company was founded by the Swartz brothers in Seattle around 1920. The company produced architectural cast stone for use in construction and trim of buildings. As Seattle grew, the company prospered, until the Great Depression of the 1930s. Though the company remained in business until around 1938, Pacific Stone's last major contract was the 24-story Exchange Building, completed…
ID Number:1991.22.3
Date:1927
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Wood & Iverson sawmill panorama, Hobart, 1915
The Wood and Iverson Lumber Company began in 1896 as a shingle mill, and by 1909, owners William Washington Wood (1868-1932) and Ivar Christian Iverson (1872-1945) had saved enough money to buy timber acreage at Hobart, Washington. In 1915 they opened a large sawmill, complete with a blacksmith shop, a locomotive house, brick dry kilns, a log pond, and a…
ID Number:1991.82.43
Date:1915