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| Title | Stacks of lumber drying at the Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing Company's mill in Ballard, ca. 1919 |
| Photographer | Webster & Stevens |
| Date | ca. 1919 |
| Caption | The Seattle Cedar mill, located just west of the Ballard Bridge, was the largest in Ballard. At the mill, logs were cut into lumber which was then dried for at least nine months before being sold. The stacks of drying lumber were over 50 feet high. In 1958, these stacks caught fire and burned. Ballard residents remembered the huge blaze for many years.
In this photo, a workman stands partway up one of the tall stacks of drying lumber. |
| Subjects | Mills; Lumber industry; Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing Company |
| Places | Ballard (Seattle, Wash.); Seattle (Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1983.10.1692.2 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 negative: nitrate, b&w; 8 x 10 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original negative using Epson Expression 10000XL as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit grayscale, resized to 700 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS4, JPEG quality measurement 5. |
| Photographer's Reference Number | W&S 77, 289 |
