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| Title | Railroad trestle under construction, St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company's camp no. 8, ca. 1926 |
| Photographer | Kinsey, Clark |
| Date | ca. 1926 |
| Notes | Caption on image: St. Paul & Tacoma Timber Co. C. Kinsey Photo. No. 489
PH Coll 516.3323 |
| Contextual Notes | On June 4, 1888, the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. incorporates. The incorporators are lumber and real estate magnates who arrive that day by train from Minnesota and Wisconsin. The next day Tacoma headlines shout the event: "The monster milling company of Tacoma organized." The firm, known locally as the St. Paul, spurs what the historian Murray Morgan calls the greatest boom in Tacoma's history. Before the firm was incorporated these entrepreneurs had purchased 80,000 acres of Pierce County timberland, mostly Douglas fir, from the Northern Pacific Railroad's land grant. They had received from the Railroad a small island on the Tacoma waterfront called "the boot" and had purchased other land as well. By 1889, they had built the mill, laid tracks into the forest, established camps and skidroads, and were transporting 50 carloads of logs a day into Tacoma for processing. The St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company was in business until 1947, when it was bought out by the St. Regis Paper Company.
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Logs
Railroad construction & maintenance--Washington (State)
Trestles--Washington (State)
Railroad construction workers--Washington (State)
Tree stumps--Washington (State)
St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company--People--Washington (State)
St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company--Equipment & supplies--Washington (State)
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Logging railroads--Washington (State)--Pierce County--Design and construction
Logging--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 | CKK0608 |
| 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 3323
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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. |
