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| Title | Flatbed railroad cars loaded with logs, National Lumber and Manufacturing Company, ca. 1924 |
| Photographer | Kinsey, Clark |
| Date | ca. 1924 |
| Notes | Caption on image: National. C.K. Kinsey, Photo. No. 244
PH Coll 516.2206 |
| Contextual Notes | The National Lumber & Manufacturing Company was in business from 1920 to 1927, with headquarters and mill in Hoquiam and logging operations first in Cedarville and then, by 1924, in Elma. National Lumber was sold to Polson Lumber Company in 1927.
Cedarville is a small settlement near the Chehalis River, eleven miles southeast of Elma, in southeast Grays Harbor County. In 1855, it was established when a blockhouse was built on the land claim of James L. Smith. It was named for nearby Cedar Creek.
Elma is a community on the Chehalis River twenty-seven miles west of Olympia in southeast Grays Harbor County. It was an once an important logging center and is now largely dependent on agriculture since the nearby Satsop Nuclear Power project was shut down. It was named for Miss Elma Austin, whose family settled in the vicinity before 1860. Two other name sources have been suggested. One is that the name is for Elmer E. Ellsworth, the first soldier to be killed in the Civil War, but with his given name shortened to the present form by post office officials. Another is that two residents of the town submitted the name Elmira when a post office was established, and that postal officials shortened the name to the present form because of another Almira in the state.
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Logs
Railroad cars--Washington (State)
Railroad tracks--Washington (State)
Railroad crossings--Washington (State)
Lumber industry--Washington (State)
National Lumber and Manufacturing Company--Equipment & supplies--Washington (State)
Grays Harbor County (Wash.)
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Logging railroads--Washington (State)--Grays Harbor County
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Grays Harbor County |
| Digital Collection | Clark Kinsey Photographs
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| Order Number | CKK0439 |
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| Negative Number | C. Kinsey 2206
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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. |
