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| Title | Railroad logging camp 1, Simpson Logging Company, Mason County, ca. 1924 |
| Photographer | Kinsey, Clark |
| Date | ca. 1924 |
| Notes | Caption on image: Camp #1, Simpson Log. Co. C.K. Kinsey Photo, Seattle. No. 681
PH Coll 516.3959 |
| Contextual Notes | Sol G. Simpson and his family moved to Mason County in 1887, where Simpson worked laying ties and rails for the Port Blakely Mill Company's logging railroad. He formed S. G. Simpson Company in Matlock in 1890. Three of Simpson's brothers joined him in Mason County, and two of them worked for him. Simpson Logging Company opened its first sawmill, the Reed Mill, at Shelton in 1925. Numerous other mills and logging operations along the West Coast have been acquired by Simpson over the years. [Source: James, David. Grisdale: Last of the Logging Camp. Fairfield, Washington: Ye Galleon Press, 1986.]
Camp no. 1 was in existence between 1918 and 1929 and was located on the Homischer ranch between Dry Bed Creek and Decker Creek south of Frisken Wye in Mason County. Bunkhouses, offices and cookhouse had electric lights, but family homes burned kerosene or gasoline in Aladdin lamps.
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Lumber camps--Washington (State)
Railroad tracks--Washington (State)
Simpson Logging Company--Facilities--Washington (State)
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Logging--Washington (State)--Mason County
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Mason County |
| Digital Collection | Clark Kinsey Photographs
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| Order Number | CKK01657 |
| 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 3959
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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 ppi in grayscale. Resized using Adobe Photoshop 7.0 so that the long dimension was either 768 pixels horizontal or 600 pixels vertical, then saved in JPEG format at quality rating 3. 2004 |
