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| Title | Asian railroad track crew, Pacific National Lumber Company, n.d. |
| Photographer | Kinsey, Clark |
| Date | n.d. |
| Notes | Caption on image: C. Kinsey Photo. No. 671
PH Coll 516.2608 |
| Contextual Notes | The Pacific National Lumber Company was established ca. 1905. By 1922, it had its headquarters in Tacoma and sawmill and logging operations in National. The company apparently went out of business ca. 1942.
The town of National is on the Mount Rainier Highway 7 miles west of the Nisqually entrance to Mt. Rainier National Park in southeast Pierce County. It was a company town established by Pacific National Lumber Company. It once housed 300 people who worked for or were dependent on the sawmill and logging operation. A post office was established December 3, 1910. The sawmill and a large part of the town burned May 13, 1912, but was rebuilt. In 1940, a writer for the WPA described National as a town of small, red, boxlike cottages crowded onto crooked, planked streets and dominated by the large red sawmill.
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Railroad construction workers--Washington (State)
Railroad tracks--Washington (State)
Railroad ties--Washington (State)
Pacific National Lumber Company--People--Washington (State)
Pierce County (Wash.)
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Asian Americans--Washington (State)--Pierce County
Asians--Washington (State)--Pierce County
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Pierce County |
| Digital Collection | Clark Kinsey Photographs
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| Order Number | CKK0480 |
| Ordering Information | To 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 Number | C. Kinsey 2608
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Clark Kinsey Photograph Collection. PH Coll 516
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| Object Type | Photograph |
| Physical Description | Silver gelatin, b/w ; 11 x 14 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x512 ppi. 2003. |
