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Crew with Climax locomotive at camp, Coats-Fordney Lumber Company, near Aberdeen, ca. 1920
Crew with Climax locomotive at camp, Coats-Fordney Lumber Company, near Aberdeen, ca. 1920
TitleCrew with Climax locomotive at camp, Coats-Fordney Lumber Company, near Aberdeen, ca. 1920
PhotographerKinsey, Clark
Dateca. 1920
NotesPH Coll 516.607
Contextual NotesThe Coats-Fordney Lumber Company started out as the A.F. Coats Lumber Company in 1905, headquartered in Aberdeen. It became the Coats-Fordney Lumber Company in 1910, and by 1924, it was called the Donovan-Corkery Lumber Company.

Aberdeen is a city in Grays Harbor (formerly called Chehalis) County. The town was platted by Samuel Benn in 1884 on his homestead. Benn was born in New York City and in 1856 he came to San Francisco. Three years later he moved to Washington Territory and settled on the Chehalis River. There are two theories as to how it got its name. Some say it arose from the fact that the Aberdeen Packing Company of Ilwaco established a cannery in early days on the Benn homestead. Others say that the name was suggested by Mrs. James Stewart, who, before her marriage in 1868, was Miss Joan B. Kellan of Aberdeen, Scotland, who had come to America with her parents in 1849 and settled in Ohio. She and her husband moved to Washington Territory in 1874.

Caption on image: Coats, Fordney. Kinsey Photo. No. 32

Subjects (LCTGM)Railroad locomotives--Washington (State)
Railroad tracks--Washington (State)
Lumber camps--Washington (State)
Lumber industry--Washington (State)
Coats-Fordney Lumber Company--People--Washington (State)
Coats-Fordney Lumber Company--Equipment & supplies--Washington (State)
Coats-Fordney Lumber Company--Facilities--Washington (State)
Grays Harbor County (Wash.)
Subjects (LCSH)Climax locomotives
Steam locomotives--Washington (State)--Grays Harbor County
Locomotive engineers--Washington (State)--Grays Harbor County
Locomotive firemen--Washington (State)--Grays Harbor County
Location DepictedUnited States--Washington (State)--Grays Harbor County
Digital CollectionClark Kinsey Photographs
Order NumberCKK02089
Ordering InformationTo order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices see: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/reproduction-info Please cite the Order Number when ordering.
Negative NumberC. Kinsey 607
RepositoryUniversity of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
Repository CollectionClark Kinsey Photograph Collection. PH Coll 516
Object TypeKinsey, Clark
Physical DescriptionClark Kinsey Photographs
Digital Reproduction InformationScanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9800XL at 100 ppi in grayscale. Resized using Adobe Photoshop 8.0 so that the long dimension was either 768 pixels horizontal or 600 pixels vertical, then saved in JPEG format at quality rating 3. 2004
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