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Five mill workers sitting on running board of a car, probably Pe Ell, ca. 1920
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| Title | Five mill workers sitting on running board of a car, probably Pe Ell, ca. 1920 |
| Photographer | Kinsey, Clark |
| Date | ca. 1920 |
| Notes | PH Coll 516.5267 |
| Contextual Notes | Antedating the railroad, Pe Ell was settled sometime before 1890 as a small farm community, but the quiet agricultural life was short-lived. In 1892 came the Northern Pacific Railroad line to South Bed, and with it, in 1894, the Yeoman Lumber Company mill, the first of the string of large mills between Chehalis and South Bend. Located in a farming area and midway on the rail line, Pe Ell prospered as a commercial center for logging camps and nearby mill towns along the tracks. In 1920, the school system registered 903 children representing 506 families, figures that indicate a population of no less than 2000 in Pe Ell and vicinity. In 1926, the Yeoman mill burned to the ground, and in the early 1930s the remaining source of town prosperity, the surrounding mill towns, collapsed one after another. By the 1930s the population had withered to less than one-half of its earlier size. [Source: Erickson, Kenneth A. Lumber Ghosts: A Travel Guide to the Historic Lumber Towns of the Pacific Northwest. Boulder, Colorado: Pruett Publishing Co., 1994]
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Lumber--Wahsington (State)--Pe Ell
Sawmills--Washington (State)--Pe Ell
Automobiles--Washington (State)--Pe Ell
Dogs--Washington (State)--Pe Ell
Hats
Lumber industry--Washington (State)--Pe Ell
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Sawmill workers--Washington (State)--Pe Ell
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Lewis County
United States--Washington (State)--Pe Ell |
| Digital Collection | Clark Kinsey Photographs
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| Order Number | CKK0991 |
| 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 5267
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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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