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| Title | Kosmos Logging Company's Whitcomb locomotive no. 2 with crew and flatbed railroad cars loaded with logs, ca. 1940 |
| Photographer | Kinsey, Clark |
| Date | ca. 1940 |
| Notes | Caption on image: [Illeg.]
PH Coll 516.1670 |
| Contextual Notes | The Kosmos Logging Company was in business from ca. 1939 to ca. 1958, when it was taken over by U.S. Plywood Corporation.
Kosmos was once located on the Cowlitz River eight miles southeast of Morton in south central Lewis County. Primary industries were logging and the mining of mercury. In pioneer days, it was named by Charles Hopkinson, who operated a water-powered sawmill at the mouth of Rainey (Rene) Creek, which enters the Cowlitz River. There appears to be no record of the name origin. At one time, the place was called Fulton. The submerged town of Kosmos is at the upper end of Riffe Lake, the reservoir behind the Mossyrock Dam along the Cowlitz River.
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Railroad cars--Washington (State)
Logs
Railroad locomotives--Washington (State)
Snow--Washington (State)
Lumber industry--Washington (State)
Kosmos Logging Company--Equipment & supplies--Washington (State)
Kosmos Logging Company--People--Washington (State)
Lewis County (Wash.)
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Whitcomb locomotives
Logging railroads--Washington (State)--Lewis County
Locomotive engineers--Washington (State)--Lewis County
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Lewis County |
| Digital Collection | Clark Kinsey Photographs
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| Order Number | CKK0207 |
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| Negative Number | C. Kinsey 1670
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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. |
