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| Title | Crew at logging camp, Clear Lake Lumber Company, n.d. |
| Photographer | Kinsey, Clark |
| Date | n.d. |
| Notes | Caption on image: Clear Lake Lumber Co., Clear Lake, Wash. No. 12
PH Coll 516.451 |
| Contextual Notes | The Clear Lake Lumber Company was created in 1903 when Bratnober-Waite Lumber Company changed its name. This original Clear Lake Lumber Company merged with Skagit Logging Company and Mt. Baker Timber Company in 1913, forming a new Clear Lake Lumber Company. The company reached its peak in 1925, when 1,236 men were employed by the firm. However, the company was in receivership by the end of the year and, after a protracted court battle, the assets were sold at auction in 1927. The properties inventoried at 5 million dollars and was the largest sale of its kind ever held in northwest Washington.
Clear Lake was formerly an important sawmill town on the west side of Clear lake two miles south of Sedro-Woolley. The town faded when the Clear Lake Lumber Company mill burned in May of 1918. Although the loss did not prevent the replacement of the mill it eventually was closed when the local timber was cut. The name is reasonably descriptive, now that it is no longer used for extensive storage of saw logs. An early name was Mountain View.
At the company's peak, the Clear Lake Lumber Company store sold a 25-pound bag of sugar for $2.55 per sack
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Lumber camps--Washington (State)
Cooks
Loggers
Lumber industry--Washington (State)
Clear Lake Lumber Company--People--Washington (State)
Clear Lake Lumber Company--Facilities--Washington (State)
Skagit County (Wash.)
Group portraits
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Skagit County |
| Digital Collection | Clark Kinsey Photographs
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| Order Number | CKK0168 |
| 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 451
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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. |
