American Steel & Wire Co. photograph album [graphic], circa 1898-1923.

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American Steel & Wire Co. photograph album [graphic], circa 1898-1923.

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Photograph album compiled by the American Steel & Wire Co., showing uses of their wire rope product in the lumber and mining industries, circa 1898-1923. Some photographs were taken at various lumber camps and mines in Oregon, Montana, and Washington, including Flora Logging Co. in Carleton, Or., Stimson Logging Co. in Bryant, Wash., McMaster and Waile Lumber Co., and a logging camp run by Albert S. Kerry. There is also one photograph of the Council Crest street car in Portland, Or. and images of the Chilkoot Railway and Transportation Co. and other railroads in Oregon, especially those used by lumber companies for transportation of felled and milled lumber. Other photographs show the construction of cigar log rafts on the Columbia River. Photographers include Augustus William Ericson and E. A. Hegg, as well as D. R. Kinsey of Sedro Wooley, Wash.

0.12 cubic feet (66 photographs in 1 volume).

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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American Steel & Wire Co.

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Ericson, A. W. (Augustus William), 1848-1927

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Not all the photographs are identified as being by Ericson. The print of Stephen H. Meek is by Louis Heller; some others are unidentified. From the description of Indians of Humboldt and Siskiyou Counties : photographs, ca. 1880-1895. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79095252 Biography Augustus William Ericson (1848-1927) was born in Orebro, Sweden. At age eleven he started a printing apprenticeship, the same business his f...

Stimson Lumber Company

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Kinsey, D. R.,

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Hegg, E. A.,

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