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Manley-Moore Lumber Company mill crew, including Asian workers, with hats on, ca. 1927
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| Title | Manley-Moore Lumber Company mill crew, including Asian workers, with hats on, ca. 1927 |
| Photographer | Kinsey, Clark |
| Date | ca. 1927 |
| Notes | Caption on image: M&M Lmbr Co., Fairfax. C. Kinsey Photo, Seattle. No. 5
PH Coll 516.1964 |
| Contextual Notes | Manley-Moore Lumber Company was in business from ca. 1910 to ca. 1934, first in Arline and then in the town of Manley-Moore, near Fairfax. In about 1900 Orville Biggs built a sawmill at Arline. Robert D. Moore partnered with J.E. Manley and August Von Boecklin, and the Manley-Moore Lumber Company bought Arline Mills in 1907 and operated there until about 1910, selling out to Merrick-Robb Lumber Co. In 1909 the Manley-Moore Lumber Company moved its operations to a tract of old growth timber east of Fairfax in eastern Pierce County. The company built a large sawmill, a lumber yard, and buildings for workers on the south side of the Carbon River, and the town was named Manley-Moore. The plant operated until the early 1930s when it was closed. Manley-Moore had many outstanding debts and were forced to sell the company to a Mr. Gailbraith from the Eatonville Lumber Company.
The Manley-Moore Lumber Company mill was built in 1910. At 1,600 feet above sea level, it had the distinction of being the highest mill in the State of Washington at that time. Built on the south bank of the Carbon River, the mill diverted some of the flow of the river into a millpond just up from the mill. On the far side of the mill a spot had been cleared for a lumberyard. From the mill a standard gauge railroad track ran across Evans Creek to Fairfax. From Fairfax, the mill shippped out the lumber on the Northern Pacific Railway. The mill suffered a severe fire in 1918, but continued to operate until the early 1930s.
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Lumber industry--Washington (State)
Manley-Moore Lumber Company--People--Washington (State)
Manley-Moore Lumber Company--Facilities--Washington (State)
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Sawmill workers--Washington (State)--Pierce County
Asian Americans--Washington (State)--Pierce County
Sawmills--Washington (State)--Pierce County
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Pierce County |
| Digital Collection | Clark Kinsey Photographs
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| Order Number | CKK0346 |
| 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 1964
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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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