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Donkey engine at logging camp near Wilkeson, July 26, 1893
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| Title | Donkey engine at logging camp near Wilkeson, July 26, 1893 |
| Photographer | Waite, Alvin H. (Alvin Henry), 1862-1929 |
| Date | 1893 |
| Notes | Notes in inventory: Wilkeson, Wash. Stationary engine with cable for hauling and loading logs.
Wilkeson is a town on Wilkeson Creek three miles southwest of Buckley in north central Pierce County. It was once an important producer of coal and sandstone quarry rock. On May 8, 1877, it was named for Samuel Wilkeson, secretary of the board of Northern Pacific Railway Company, by a resolution of the board.
A donkey engine is a steam, gasoline, or diesel engine with drums and cables that yards, or pulls, the logs from the woods. Donkey engines began to be used in the woods in the late 1880s and came into general use in the next ten years. The logger who operated the donkey was called a donkey puncher. A logging technique called "high-lead" logging developed, requiring a steam-engine donkey, steel cables, and a single, tall, standing "spar" tree. While loggers set great store by the work done by the donkeys, the engines were a major cause of injury and death among loggers because of the tendency to set the woods on fire or blow up unexpectedly, or the propensity to break the rigging and send cables flailing through the air around them.
PH Coll 291.064 |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Steam donkeys--Washington (State)
Logs
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Pierce County (Wash.)
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Pierce County |
| Digital Collection | Alvin H. Waite Photographs
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| Order Number | WAT021 |
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Alvin H. Waite Photograph Collection. PH Coll 291
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| Object Type | Photograph |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 150 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2003. |
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