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| Title | Port Blakely and lumber mill, ca. 1902 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | ca. 1902 |
| Caption | In the 1870s, Port Blakely was a small sawmill town on Bainbridge Island. By 1890, the mill was one of three on Puget Sound that could produce 100 million board feet of lumber per year. Logs were bound together in rafts and floated to the mill from lumber camps up and down the sound.
In this photo, taken sometime after 1902, a sailing vessel is being loaded with lumber at Port Blakely. Stacks of lumber are air drying in the foreground. Log rafts float in the background. Lumber from the Port Blakely mill was shipped to Hawaii, Australia, South America and elsewhere. |
| Notes | Original photograph: not before 1902. Copied after 1947 by Webster & Stevens |
| Subjects | Mills; Lumber industry; Ships |
| Places | Port Blakely (Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1983.10.18160.1 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 negative: safety film, b&w; 8 x 10 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original negative using Epson Expression 10000XL as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit grayscale, resized to 700 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS4, JPEG quality measurement 4. |
| Photographer's Reference Number | W&S 512, 199 |
