134 results for: Lumber and Logging
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Logrollers at a lumberjack show, Seattle World's Fair, 1962
Two lumberjacks, one falling and one still upright, demonstrating logrolling in an outdoor tank during a popular lumberjack show at the Seattle World's Fair. Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): October 13, 1962
ID Number:1986.5.2739.1
Date:1962
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Mill worker at a rolling machine in a plywood mill, July 1937
Written on photo: Plywood mill Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): July 22, 1937
ID Number:1986.5.5335.2
Date:1937
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Aerial view of Ballard looking west, Seattle, 1937
The first Ballard Bridge opened in December 1917, crossing the Lake Washington Ship Canal and linking the Ballard district by road to Seattle. This aerial photo shows the Ballard Bridge and Salmon Bay, with the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks and Puget Sound at the top of the image. Log rafts floating in the bay are visible at the bottom left…
ID Number:1986.5.7332.1
Date:1937
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Aerial view of Washington State coast, with a tugboat pulling logs, 1959
This aerial view, taken from a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter, shows a tugboat pulling a log raft around a rugged point of coastline, probably in Washington State. Handwritten on sleeve: WASHINGTON STATE, Coast, Coast Guard airviews. Date photograph was filed by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): May 13, 1959.
ID Number:1986.5.15526.10
Date:1959
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Sailing vessels from Clark-Nickerson Lumber Company, circa 1900
Joseph Swartz was a shingle mill owner in Granite Falls, Washington, in the 1890s and early 1900s. By 1908, he had relocated his business to Everett. Swartz was also an amateur photographer. His images of family, friends and local scenery, all on glass plate negatives, document life in Snohomish County at the turn of the 19th century.This Swartz photo, taken…
ID Number:1991.40.34
Date:Circa 1900
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High lead logging, Hobart, Washington, 1917
Many logging companies rigged cables and pulleys on tall spar trees to haul logs to loading sites. Once a spar tree was chosen, a high rigger scrambled up the tree, cut off the branches and the top, and attached pulleys and cables. To help him climb, he wore a special belt and spikes on his legs and boots. It might…
ID Number:1991.82.24
Date:1917
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Locomotive and log train near Hobart, Washington, circa 1915
Beginning in 1915, the firm of Wood & Iverson ran a sawmill and logging operation at Hobart, northeast of Auburn, Washington. The company employed about 200 people, primarily of Swedish, Polish, Norwegian and Finnish descent. They felled trees and milled the wood into lumber, shingles, siding, molding and airplane stock. Like many other logging companies, Wood & Iverson had its…
ID Number:1991.82.42
Date:Circa 1915
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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
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Exterior of Forestry Building at AYPE, Seattle, 1909
The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE) was a world's fair held in 1909 in Seattle to publicize the development of the Pacific Northwest. The fairgrounds were located on the campus of the University of Washington, where many new buildings were built to accommodate the fair. The Forestry Building was sponsored by the State of Washington and was intended to showcase the state's…
ID Number:1991.94.1
Date:1909
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Bunkhouses at Polson Logging Company camp, circa 1918
This Clark Kinsey photo of employees and bunkhouses at a Polson Logging Company camp was probably taken somewhere near Grays Harbor. The portable dwellings were hauled from place to place along the logging railroad.Clark Kinsey started taking photographs in western Washington in the 1890s. He spent several years in the Klondike before returning to the Puget Sound region. In 1913,…
ID Number:1992.21.11
Date:Circa 1918