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Family groups, Manley-Moore Lumber Company, ca. 1927
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| Title | Family groups, Manley-Moore Lumber Company, ca. 1927 |
| Photographer | Kinsey, Clark |
| Date | ca. 1927 |
| Notes | PH Coll 516.1973 |
| 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 company built the Manley-Moore School, a large two-storey structure. The lower level had a wooden divider, which sectioned the main room into two separate rooms. Grades 1 through 6 were taught there. The teachers' quarters were in the back section of the building...On Friday night someone would roll back the big wooden divider, converting the schoolhouse into a motion picture theater." [From: Hall, Nancy Irene. Carbon River Coal Country. Orting, WA: Heritage Quest Press, 1980, 1994, pp 278, 283]
Caption on image: Kinsey Photo No. 61
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Families--Washington (State)
Dwellings--Washington (State)
Lumber camps--Washington (State)
Lumber--Washington (State)
Lumber industry--Washington (State)
Manley-Moore Lumber Company--People--Washington (State)
Manley-Moore Lumber Company--Facilities--Washington (State)
Pierce County (Wash.)
Group portraits
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Pierce County |
| Digital Collection | Clark Kinsey Photographs
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| Order Number | CKK0350 |
| 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 1973
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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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