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- 1950-02-28
Part of Richards Studio Photographs
A man inspects a large stack of Hemlock boards in the yard at the St. Paul Lumber Company. The boards are ready for dry kilns where they would remain 2 to 4 days. Each tier of lumber is stripped to separate the pieces, which allows heat and steam to circulate freely when the load is in the kiln. After drying, the load is ready to be unstacked and sent to the planers. (Tree Life Hemlock, St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co.)
Lumber industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. (Tacoma);