Owen L. Hall lumber industry photograph collection, ca. 1880s-1974 (bulk 1880s-1910s).

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Owen L. Hall lumber industry photograph collection, ca. 1880s-1974 (bulk 1880s-1910s).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/226411242

The collection is comprised largely of photographs of the early lumber industry in Washington State, ca. 1880-1910. Several specific sawmills and mill crews are depicted, such as those at the Allen Shingle Company, Clear Lake Shingle Company, and the King Mill Company. Images of mill operations depict various pieces of machinery, from steam donkey engines and steam shovels, to setworks and saws operating inside mill buildings. Several images depict various modes of hauling lumber, from horse or oxen teams to flatbed railcars and trucks. One series consists of eleven photographs of logging in the early 1900s, by the Seattle photography studio of Webster & Stevens. Other images depict the Washington Saw Company float in the 1912 Golden Potlatch parade in Seattle, and the archway cut into the "bicycle tree" near Snohomish. The collection also includes several photographs of later mill operations and equipment, such as the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company pulp mill in Longview, Wash. (1931) and equipment at the Walton Lumber Company (1955). The collection also includes two photograph albums, one containing images of mills and mill operations in Washington State and California, and the other depicting the six "gyppo" mills-- small, independent, and often portable operations--in Washington State in 1955.

1 box and oversize materials (112 photographs, 27 postcards, and 2 albums)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7080301

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Walton Lumber Company

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Washington Saw Company

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Hall, Owen L., 1908-1981

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Born in Renton, Wash., Owen L. Hall was a lifelong resident of Seattle, living in the University District for much of his adult life. Hall worked in the lumber industry as a logger in Washington State for several years in the late 1930s-early 1940s, and developed a lasting interest in forestry. Over the years, Hall collected artifacts and images related to the lumber industry: saws, axes, and other small tools, and photographs and postcards of lumber crews, sawmills, equipment, and other subject...

Clear Lake Shingle Company

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Webster & Stevens

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Allen Shingle Company

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Weyerhaeuser Timber Company

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The Weyerhaeuser Company, founded in 1900 as the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, is one of the largest forest product companies in the world. Weyerhaueser had timber and logging operations in Klamath County until the mid-1990s. Timber cruising is a process for measuring forest stands to determine number and species of trees, average tree size and volume, and timber quality. From the description of Klamath County timber cruising records, 1952-1955. (Eugene Public Library). WorldCat recor...

King Mill Company

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