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Loading operation with donkey engines, spartree, flatcars, and water tanker car behind central donkey engine and railroad camp bunkhouses in background, Saginaw Timber Company, ca. 1923
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| Title | Loading operation with donkey engines, spartree, flatcars, and water tanker car behind central donkey engine and railroad camp bunkhouses in background, Saginaw Timber Company, ca. 1923 |
| Photographer | Kinsey, Clark |
| Date | ca. 1923 |
| Notes | Caption on image: All set for big day. 81 loads containing 788, 590 f. taken out in 7 hrs. by one side. Camp 4, Saginaw Log Co. C. Kinsey Photo, Seattle. No. 5
PH Coll 516.3102 |
| Contextual Notes | The Saginaw Timber Company incorporated on March 18, 1908 and organized in 1909. The company was to be capitalized at $100,000. The organizers were A J Morley and W G Hopkins. The company constructed and operated a 40 mile logging railroad in the Aberdeen area. In 1919, the company merged the E H Lester Logging Company, a two mile logging railroad in the Montesano area. In 1933, the company merged the Gray's Harbor and Pacific Railroad Company, a 9.25 mile railroad in the Aberdeen area. The company also merged the Saginaw Southern Railway Company. By 1934 the company was known as the Saginaw Logging Company and operated in the Brooklyn area. In 1947, the company acquired the Bridges to Vesta track from the Gray's Harbor and Puget Sound Railway Company. In 1946, the company was reorganized as the Saginaw Lumber Company. On February 14, 1947 the company was dissolved.
Saginaw is an area on the Chehalis River three miles southeast of Elma in southeast Grays Harbor County. The name is for Saginaw Timber Company of Aberdeen, which used the area as headquarters of its logging operations. The company reportedly originated in Saginaw, Michigan.
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Loggers
Logs
Steam donkeys--Washington (State)
Railroad cars--Washington (State)
Railroad tank cars--Washington (State)
Railroad tracks--Washington (State)
Lumber camps--Washington (State)
Lumber industry--Washington (State
Saginaw Timber Company (Brooklyn, Wash.)--Equipment & supplies--Washington (State)
Saginaw Timber Company (Brooklyn, Wash.)--People--Washington (State)
Saginaw Timber Company (Brooklyn, Wash.)--Facilities--Washington (State)
Grays Harbor County (Wash.)
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Spartrees--Washington (State)--Grays Harbor County
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Grays Harbor County |
| Digital Collection | Clark Kinsey Photographs
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| Order Number | CKK0559 |
| 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 3102
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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. |
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