128 results for: Lumber and Logging
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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
Postcard
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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Forestry Building at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909
The Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition (AYPE) was a world's fair held in Seattle in 1909, publicizing the development of the Pacific Northwest. The fairgrounds became the campus of the University of Washington.Otto D. Goetze (b. 1871) was an American photographer who owned the Alaska Photo Studio in Seattle from 1909 to 1912. He also photographed the Alaska Gold Rush from 1891 to…
ID Number:1995.38.37.8
Date:1909
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Redwood tree at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909
The Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition (AYPE) was a world's fair held in Seattle in 1909, publicizing the development of the Pacific Northwest. The fairgrounds became the campus of the University of Washington.Otto D. Goetze (b. 1871) was an American photographer who owned the Alaska Photo Studio in Seattle from 1909 to 1912. He also photographed the Alaska Gold Rush from 1891 to…
ID Number:1995.38.37.309
Date:1909
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Moran Brothers employees working at lumber yard, Seattle, circa 1900
After working on ships for a number of years Robert Moran (1857-1943) opened a marine repair shop at Yesler's Wharf in 1882. Shortly thereafter he established Moran Brothers Marine and Sawmill Machinery Company (later Moran Brothers Company) with his brothers, Frank Moran (1860-1934) and Sherman Moran (1865-1929). The firm built steamers and barges for miners on the Yukon River, as…
ID Number:1995.49.266
Date:Circa 1900
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Lumbermen Celebrating the New Lumber and Shingle Tariff at the Arctic Club, Seattle, Wash., October 30, 1909
In April of 1909, during a special session, the United States Congress passed the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act, raising tariffs on imports to the United States. One of these tariffs was 20 cents a thousand on shingles imported to the United States, which shingle makers and lumbermen in the Seattle region thought "kept them from bankruptcy."On October 30, 1909, businessmen from…
ID Number:1998.2.3
Date:1909