Additional view of men surveying mass of logs. Two men in hard hats examine the enormous amount of harvested timber on August 12, 1957. These logs were cut from forests near North Bend. The logs are of varying sizes; all dwarf the men. Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie.

Logs; Lumber industry--North Bend;

Only a craftman's hands can be seen carefully using a Skilsaw on plywood boards at Weber Lumber Co. Bits of wood shavings are scattered close by. The portable table saw cuts the plywood into the desired length. Photograph ordered by Douglas Fir Plywood Association.

Plywood; Saws; Douglas Fir Plywood Association (Tacoma);

It appears that a giant log is carefully being barked by hand in a February 20, 1958, photograph. The Puget Sound Plywood employee is apparently using a long tool to lift the exposed layer. It is possible that this peeler will be used in the production of plywood. In that case, after barking, the peeler will be rotated in a lathe, removing strips of veneer. Photograph ordered by Douglas Fir Plywood Association.

Puget Sound Plywood, Inc. (Tacoma); Logs; Lumber industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Cooperatives--Tacoma;

The figure of a logger is starkly outlined in black as he descends a spar pole. His steel tipped shoes assist in keeping himself steady. The belt circling the pole is used to keep him from falling. The spar pole has multiple cables that are used for yarding logs from surrounding strands of trees. This photograph was taken on September 12, 1958, in Port McNeil, British Columbia. Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie, industrial consultant.

Loggers; Lumber industry--Canada;

A man is photographed on March 3, 1964, studiously perusing a Drop-in Art sheet from the Weyerhaeuser Registered Home Advertising Service. Besides the Drop-in Art sheets, proof & tear sheets, Weyerhaeuser ads, home designs, and art pages were available along with the large Advertising Catalog. Photograph ordered by the Weyerhaeuser Co.

Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. (Tacoma); Advertising--Tacoma--1960-1970;

Logging operation scenes from Rayonier, Inc., Grays Harbor. Workers are supervising the hoisting of large logs onto open railroad cars. Once properly situated, the metal chains across the logs will be tightened to prevent slipping. Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie, industrial consultant, New York.

Lumber industry--Grays Harbor--1960-1970; Rayonier, Inc. (Grays Harbor); Hoisting machinery; Logs;

Rayonier, Inc., timber industry scenes, Grays Harbor. Logs are being hoisted onto open railroad cars as Rayonier, Inc., employees gather to watch in July, 1964. This activity probably occurred at Rayonier's large tree farm in Grays Harbor. Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie, industrial consultant, New York.

Lumber industry--Grays Harbor--1960-1970; Rayonier, Inc. (Grays Harbor); Hoisting machinery; Logs;

Scenes from Potlatch Forests, Inc., pulp and paper operations, Lewiston, Idaho. A kneeling employee of Potlatch Forests, Inc., examines one roll on the C-fold facial tissue line at the Idaho facility. There may have been 200 rolls running, extending the length of the September, 1964, photograph. As each roll would unwind around the rollers folding into a c pattern, it would run along the bottom and go through the saw house. They were cut down to size prior to being put into facial tissue boxes. This machine was later phased out as it was replaced by the I-fold machines that made the interfolding facial tissue. Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie, industrial consultant, New York. ALBUM 15. (Additional information on the C-fold facial tissue line & process provided by a reader)

Lumber industry--Idaho--1960-1970; Paper industry--Idaho--1960-1970; Potlatch Forests, Inc. (Lewiston, ID);

In June of 1965, Douglas Tenzler was photographed standing next to a section of an old growth Douglas fir, almost 13 feet in diameter, which was installed outside of the new Flora B. Tenzler Memorial Library at 6300 Wildaire Road SW in Lakewood, one of the branches of the Pierce County Library system. The cross section of fir used to stand outside the entrance of the Northwest Door Company when Herman E. Tenzler was president of the company. The enormous old growth tree was cut on the company's timber holdings near Packwood in 1946. The log monument was officially unveiled on July 1, 1965, in a Lakes Summer Festival ceremony by its donor, Herman E. Tenzler. The library is named in honor of Mr. Tenzler's late wife. Photograph ordered by Cole & Weber Advertising. TPL-6598 (TNT 7-1-65, A-9)

Logs; Tree stumps--Lakewood--1960-1970; Flora B. Tenzler Memorial Library (Lakewood);

Scenes from Potlatch Forests logging operations. Two men watch as a crane lifts a log from a stack loaded on a nearby logging truck. The log joins others already placed on open rail cars. Potlatch employed 9,540 persons company-wide. It owned nearly 1,000,000 acres of land, and enjoyed record sales of 182.9 million in 1964. Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie, industrial consultant, New York, for Potlatch Forests, Inc., annual report. (TNT 2-24-65, A-3)

Lumber industry--Idaho--1960-1970; Logs; Hoisting machinery; Potlatch Forests, Inc. (Lewiston, ID);

Pulp and paper operations at Potlatch Forests, Inc., Lewiston, Idaho. View of Potlatch employees in pulp and paper mill; large rolls of paper on right portion. Cast-iron Lamb machinery in use. According to Potlatch's annual report, the company employed 9,540 persons and owned nearly 1,000,000 acres of forests in three states. Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie, industrial consultant, New York, for company report. (TNT 2-24-65, A-3)

Lumber industry--Idaho--1960-1970; Paper industry--Idaho--1960-1970; Potlatch Forests, Inc. (Lewiston, ID);

Elevated July 13, 1965, view of Potlatch Forests, Inc., land in Lewiston, Idaho. Man in hard hat on hilltop is looking at tree-filled landscape with river flowing adjacent to the property. Potlatch Forests had 440,000 acres in Idaho alone in addition to 113,000 acres in Washington and another 383,000 acres in Arkansas. Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie, industrial consultant, New York, for company report. (TNT 2-24-65, A-3)

Lumber industry--Idaho--1960-1970; Trees; Potlatch Forests, Inc. (Lewiston, ID);

One man saw set up at St. Paul & Tacoma, Olympia, ordered by Globe Machinery Manufacturing Co. of Tacoma. Photograph shows "skinner end with tilt lift tilted." The saw was used for cutting sheets of plywood. Globe Machinery was founded in the early 1900s by Jesse Bamford, an English immigrant. In 1917, when his son Calvin Sr. took over the business, he focused specifically on designing and manufacturing machines for the developing forest products industry. The firm designed hundreds of machines for high efficiency veneer, plywood and board production. The address listed on their letterhead is 701 East "D" St. The company maintained a plant at 301 East 11th St. from 1929-1988.

St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. (Olympia); Lumber industry--Olympia--1950-1960; Plywood; Machinery industry--Tacoma; Machinery; Equipment; Globe Machine Manufacturing Co. (Tacoma);

One man saw set up at St. Paul & Tacoma, Olympia, ordered by Globe Machinery Manufacturing Co. of Tacoma. The saw is used in plywood production. The plywood is moved on the conveyor belt to the left and one man can operate the machine using the electronic controls mounted to the right of the platform. Globe Manufacturing, founded in the early 1900s, designed and manufactured equipment for the veneer and plywood industry.

St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. (Olympia); Lumber industry--Olympia--1950-1960; Plywood; Machinery industry--Tacoma; Machinery; Equipment; Globe Machine Manufacturing Co. (Tacoma);

Logs are being lowered via wire rope at Rayonier logging operations in Sappho in July, 1961. Steel lines are attached to the spar. Photograph ordered by Bethlehem Pacific Coast Steel Corp., Seattle.

Logs; Lumber industry--Sappho;

October, 1969, scenes from Potlatch Forests, Inc. pulp & paper operations. A lone fisherman is silhouetted against the pale waters fronting the Potlatch Forests, Inc., plant in Lewiston, Idaho. Potlatch Forests, established in 1903 as Potlatch Lumber Co., still maintains plants in Lewiston to produce bleached kraft softwood pulp and bleached paperboard for packaging, liquid containers. It also produces bathroom and facial tissue, napkins and towels for private label customers. Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie, industrial consultant, New York. (www.potlatchcorp.com)

Potlatch Forests, Inc. (Lewiston, ID); Industrial facilities--Idaho; Paper industry--Idaho--1960-1970; Lumber industry--Idaho--1960-1970; Fishermen--Idaho--Lewiston; Fishing--Idaho;

Scenes from Potlatch Forests' Idaho plant. A Potlatch Forests employee lays his hand on a large sheet of kraft pulp in the company's Lewiston, Idaho, plant. The sheet is being rolled onto a big metal rod. Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie, industrial consultant, New York.

Potlatch Forests, Inc. (Lewiston, ID); Lumber industry--Idaho--1960-1970; Paper industry--Idaho--1960-1970; Industrial facilities--Idaho;

October, 1969, scenes from Potlatch Forests, Inc., pulp & paper operations. A Potlatch Forests employee wearing a hard hat examines a giant metal pipe or container that leads into an wall-less metal tower . A cylinder-shaped structure is on the upper levels of the tower. The majority of Potlatch Forests' Idaho employees were located in Lewiston which maintained an enormous pulp and paper plant. Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie, industrial consultant, New York.

Potlatch Forests, Inc. (Lewiston, ID); Lumber industry--Idaho--1960-1970; Paper industry--Idaho--1960-1970; Pipes (Conduits)--Idaho--Lewiston;

Scenes from Potlatch Forests' Lewiston plant. A series of photographs were taken in mid-October of 1969 of the Potlatch Forests, Inc., Lewiston, Idaho plant on behalf of New York industrial consultant Malcolm McGhie. The photographs primarily focused on plant operations, both interior and exterior. There were no identifying captions accompanying the pictures. A Potlatch employee is shown above seemingly dwarfed by the enormous metal containers and tanks outside the facility. A Nooter Corp. (St. Louis) pipe-shaped tank or boiler emerging in the center of the photograph may be the same shown in D157221, image 64, as it enters the wall-less metal structure.

Potlatch Forests, Inc. (Lewiston, ID); Paper industry--Idaho--1960-1970; Lumber industry--Idaho--1960-1970; Storage tanks--Idaho--Lewiston;

Scenes from Potlatch Forests, Inc., operations. View of exterior of mill at Lewiston, Idaho. Two men are pictured strolling toward the enormous Potlatch Forests mill located in Lewiston, Idaho, on July 8, 1968, while another worker seemingly tips his hat to the Richards photographer. The operating mill at Lewiston had been enlarged and modernized several times in the preceding decades. Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie, industrial consultant, New York.

Potlatch Forests, Inc. (Lewiston, ID); Lumber industry--Idaho--1960-1970; Paper industry--Idaho--1960-1970; Mills--Idaho--Lewiston;

ca. 1925. The Defiance Lumber Company was an export mill. It cut 80,000,000 feet of lumber in 1926 and it was all shipped away to Europe, Asia, Australia, California, South America or the East Coast. The Defiance Mill did nothing but saw wood, and only fir wood. The plant had dry kilns with a capacity of 50,000 feet a day, a completely equipped planing mill and a lath mill adding to the completeness of the plant. (TNT, 8/10/1927) (filed with Argentum)

Defiance Lumber Co. (Tacoma); Lumber industry--Tacoma--1920-1930;

Transporting finished lumber on rail cars from the St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company mill to its lumber ship the "Lake Frances."

Lumber industry--Tacoma--1930-1940; St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. (Tacoma); Shipping--Tacoma--1930-1940; Railroad freight cars--Tacoma;

This 109-car train bears logged old growth timber from the St. Paul & Tacoma Camp 5, near the junction of the Puyallup and Mowitz Rivers, to the city in October of 1935. Men standing on the logs demonstrate their mammoth size. The largest of the trees was a 700 year old giant, 10 1/2 feet across that was cut into four sections for transportation. (T. Times 10-19-1935, pg. 1)

Lumber industry--Tacoma--1930-1940; St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. (Tacoma); Logs; Railroad freight cars--Tacoma;

West Coast Logging Company. Three men standing in front of a huge log loaded on a rail car. The log was one of the largest ever marketed up to this point. It was 11 1/2 feet in diameter and was sound to the core. At 36 feet long, it contained 14, 500 feet of marketable lumber. The tree was cut down near Mineral. (T. Times 7/9/1936, pg. 3)

Lumber industry--Tacoma--1930-1940; West Coast Logging Co. (Tacoma); Logs;

West Fork Logging Company. Unidentified man posed for portrait in front of huge log loaded on rail car. An old growth tree, harvested near Mineral, produced this log with an 11 1/2 foot diameter. It was one of the largest logs ever marketed here up to this point. (T. Times 7/9/1936, pg. 3)

Lumber industry--Tacoma--1930-1940; West Fork Logging Co. (Tacoma); Logs;

West Fork Logging Company. Six men posed for a portrait with a huge log loaded on a rail car in July of 1936. This tree, logged near Mineral, was one of the largest logs ever marketed. It was 11 1/2 feet in diameter and 36 feet long, containing 14,500 feet of marketable lumber. It will be sent to the Washington Veneer Co. in Olympia. Wa. The Washington Veneer Co. is one of the few local plants that can handle such a large "peeler log." Members of the boom crew are pictured with the log: seated at top Fred Kopaske, center Lawrence Aus, standing on car, left to right, D. Mackay, Eyler Plumb, Pete Peterson and Al McCoy. (T. Times 7/9/1936, pg. 3)

Lumber industry--Tacoma--1930-1940; West Fork Logging Co. (Tacoma); Logs; Kopaske, Fred; Aus, Lawrence; Plumb, Eyler; Peterson, Pete; McCoy, Al;

In May of 1936, L. A. Case, peeking around the tree on the left, and Jack Kasbaum, on the right, used a long, crosscut saw, called a "Misery Whip", to fell a 750-year-old fir tree near Kent. An 18 foot section from the tree made a nation wide tour to advertise Washington state finishing at the Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, expositions. The day appears hot and Jack Kasbaum's undershirt is stained with sweat and dirt from his exertions. Although expert loggers, the two spent an entire day at work; careful to keep the bark and tree intact in its fall to earth. The bottle on the left of the picture is filled with kerosene oil, used to cut the pitch which gathers on the saw. The tree stood over 200 feet high and was nine feet in diameter. After a two year search, it was selected as a typical Northwest timber tree.The section of tree was bound with heavy steel bands and mounted on a semi trailer for its tour. The "Washington to Texas" tour also featured displays from Northwest manufacturers and stopped in hundreds of cities before reaching the Texas exposition. Afterward, the tour made a circuit of the principal Eastern cities.(T.Times 5/6/1936). for more images of the same event see T96 images 1 & 3

Lumber industry--Tacoma--1930-1940; Firs; Loggers; Case, L.A.; Kasbaum, Jack;

ca. 1925. Men unloading lumber from a ship at the Defiance Lumber Co. dock. The men are unloading cut lumber that appears to be almost two feet by two feet, showing why Tacoma was known as the "Lumber Capital of the World." A rolling crane emblazoned with the company's name can be seen in the background. The crane, of a type first built by Star Iron & Steel Co., was capable of lifting 5 tons from the dock to the ship. The Defiance Lumber Co. and mill was built in 1905 and closed in December of 1951, citing a lack of usable wood. (TNT 6/3/1926, pg. 9- different picture, article on cranes) GTPL-013, TPL-9541

Defiance Lumber Co. (Tacoma); Lumber industry--Tacoma--1920-1930; Cargo ships--Tacoma; Shipping--Tacoma--1920-1930;

Display of faux television sets displaying advertising cells at the Douglas Fir Plywood Association Circus.

Display kiosk at the Doug Fir Plywood Association Circus with 233 small wooden disks labeled with ways the company creates sales. Black and white photographs of the plywood making process are visible in the background.