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Reference code
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Item
Title
D31530-2
Date(s)
- 1948-01-19 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
Old Dempsey Mill showing burning and clearing of ground, Idaho Smelting Inc., Mr. W.H. Salyer. The Dempsey Lumber Company was listed in the 1942 City Directory as being located at Dempsey Mill Road and East 14th and 15th Streets. One of the remaining buildings has a tall smoke stack. A large pile of wooden rubble still stands in the foreground. Flames and smoke come from the wood burning in the background.
Dempsey Mill (Tacoma); Lumber industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Fire; Smoke--Tacoma--1940-1950; Clearing of land--Tacoma--1940-1950;