Logging equipment photograph album [graphic], 1917-1922.

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Logging equipment photograph album [graphic], 1917-1922.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/157342877

Photograph album collected by Merv Johnson, author of "In Search of Steam Donkeys: Logging Equipment in Oregon." The images date from 1917-1922 and depict logging equipment such as boilers and steam donkey engines at various lumber camps and lumber companies in the Pacific Northwest . Companies depicted include Bloedel, Stewart, and Welch Logging Operations and British Columbia Mills, Timber, and Trading Company in British Columbia; Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Company in Washington; Smith-Powers Logging Company, and Wind River Lumber Company in Oregon, among others. There are also some photographs of a scotch boiler belonging to the Emergency Fleet Corporation being loaded on to the ship, "Grace Dollar." Photographers include George M. Weister of Portland, Or., and Cress-Dale Photo Company and Frank H. Nowell, both of Seattle, Wash.

0.13 cubic feet (109 photographs in 1 volume).

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6903289

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Johnson, Merv,

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Weister, George M., 1862-1922

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Bloedel, Stewart, and Welch Logging Operations (Vancouver, Wash.)

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United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation

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British Columbia Mills, Timber, and Trading Company

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Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Company

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Wind River Lumber Company

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Smith-Powers Logging Company

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Cress-Dale Photo Company (Seattle, Wash.),

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Nowell, Frank H., 1864-1950

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Frank H. Nowell (1864-1950) was a photographer who worked in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. He was the official photographer of the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. From the description of Frank H. Nowell photographs of the Northwest and Alaska, circa 1880s-1920s. (Brigham Young University). WorldCat record id: 179780507 Frank H. Nowell (1864-1950) was born on 19 February in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. His father, Thomas Nowell, spent part of each year in Alaska for b...