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| Title | Shingle mill crew and children at camp, Nelson and Company, n.d. |
| Photographer | Kinsey, Clark |
| Date | n.d. |
| Notes | Caption on image: Nelson & Co., Darrington. Kinsey Photo, Seattle. No. 1
PH Coll 516.2316 |
| Contextual Notes | Darrington is a logging and sawmill community on the Sauk River nearly thirty miles east of Arlington in north central Snohomish County. It was a meeting place for Indian tribes in early days. From there five trails lead into the high mountains. Early names for this place were Sauk Portage and The Burn. The former related to a river portage and the latter to forest fires. In 1891, settlers decided on a name by flipping a card which carried the name Portage on one side and Barrington, the name of an early settler, on the other. Legend says that Barrington's name was on both sides of the card. That name won, but later became twisted to the present name when a post office was established in 1894.
The "shingle weavers" as they were called, depended for their livelihood on the dexterity of their hands. They juggled the freshly sliced shingles which fell from the flashing blades of the saws in a manual ballet which the director of a symphony might have envied. They caught the pungent cedar boards in the air, flipped them from one hand to the other and "wove" them into finished bundles ready for shipment. A journeyman shingle weaver could handle 30,000 singles in a ten hour shift. Each time – 30,000 times a day – when he reached for one of those flying pieces of cedar, he gambled the reflexes of eye and muscle against the instant amputation of his fingers or his hand. [Source: Prouty, Andrew Mason. More Deadly Than War: Pacific Coast Logging, 1827-1981. New York; London: Garland Publishing, Inc. 1985.] |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Children--Washington (State)
Men--Washington (State)
Nelson and Company--People--Washington (State)
Nelson and Company--Facilities--Washington (State)
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Shingle industry--Washington (State)--Snohomish County
Shingles--Washington (State)--Snohomish County
Shingle industry--Washington (State)--Snohomish County--Employees
Sawmills--Washington (State)--Snohomish County
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Snohomish County |
| Digital Collection | Clark Kinsey Photographs
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| Order Number | CKK0306 |
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| Negative Number | C. Kinsey 2316
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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. |
