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Logging crew with donkey engine used to lower logs down a 66 percent grade incline, with old telephone in background, Wisconsin Logging and Timber Company, Stella, n.d.
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| Title | Logging crew with donkey engine used to lower logs down a 66 percent grade incline, with old telephone in background, Wisconsin Logging and Timber Company, Stella, n.d. |
| Photographer | Kinsey, Clark |
| Date | n.d. |
| Notes | Caption on image: Lower engine, at top of incline, grade 66-1/2 percent. Wisconsin Timber & Logging Co., Columbia River, Wash. No. 22
PH Coll 516.5111 |
| Contextual Notes | The Wisconsin Logging & Timber Company was in business from ca. 1908 to ca. 1924. The company was headquartered in Portland, Oregon, but it had logging camps first at Oak Point and then at Stella, both in Cowlitz County.
Oak Point is on the north bank of the Columbia River fourteen miles west of Longview in southwest Cowlitz County. It was named for very large oak trees, some up to thirteen feet in circumference, which grew on the point. They were noted by Lieut. W. R. Broughton of Capt. George Vancouver's 1792 expedition. A post office was established at Oak Point on February 18, 1851 and continued until August 31, 1937. Alexander S. Abernethy was first post master who built and operated a sawmill and later a grist mill in the neighborhood.
Stella is a community at the mouth of Germany Creek on the north bank of the Columbia River nine miles west of Longview in southwest Cowlitz County. It was named for a daughter of John A. Packard who established a store on the site in 1880. A post office was established August 14, 1884.
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Telephones
Railroad tracks--Washington (State)
Wisconsin Logging and Timber Company--People--Washington (State)
Wisconsin Logging and Timber Company--Equipment & supplies--Washington (State)
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Loggers--Washington (State)--Cowlitz County
Steam donkeys--Washington (State)--Cowlitz County
Logging--Washington (State)--Cowlitz County
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Cowlitz County |
| Digital Collection | Clark Kinsey Photographs
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| Order Number | CKK01034 |
| 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 5111
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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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