A "Sreen", a high bias installation at Penn Salt.

Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co. of Washington (Tacoma); Chemical industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Factories--Tacoma--1950-1960;

An elevated view of the hydraulic barking process in the wood room at the St. Regis Paper plant shows unbarked logs in the background just received from the log storage pond. Logs then pass through the hydraulic barker under 1,400-pound pressure from jets of water stripping the logs in a matter of seconds. A man is seen near the center of the photograph using a tool to remove a rough spot from the log where a limb protruded. The cleanly barked logs will move on at once to the chipper where the log will be cut into chips 3/4 inch long and 1/8 inch thick, ready to be put into digesters. (TNT, 2/17/1952; St. Regis Paper Co. 1951 Annual Report)

Paper industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Mechanical systems--Tacoma; Machinery; St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1950-1960;

A driver is leaning on the cab of a truck from Veneer Chip Transport waiting his turn to unload chips at St. Regis Paper Company's new chip receiving station, completed in 1951. In Tacoma's fiber conservation program, an increasing percentage of the sulphate pulp is manufactured from chips made out of waste wood formerly burned at local wood-using plants. A big 12-ton hoist is upending the detached carrier bed of another truck at a 58 degree tilt to unload wood chips quickly. This equipment unloads three cars an hour. (St. Regis Paper Co. 1951 Annual Report)

Paper industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1950-1960; Trucks--Tacoma--1950-1960; Veneer Chip Transport (Tacoma);

A view of trucks and the 12-ton hoist used to dump full loads of wood chips at the St. Regis Paper plant. The chips flow by gravity onto a conveyor belt into piles that stand 60 feet into the air by means of an elaborate four-way pneumatic system. Moving the mountains of chips had been systemized into a push-button operation to deliver chips onto the correct pile according to species of wood, pine, white fir, hemlock or Douglas fir.

Paper industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1950-1960; Trucks--Tacoma--1950-1960; Veneer Chip Transport (Tacoma);

This elevated view of the St. Regis Paper Company yard shows the drive for trucks bringing wood chips to the pulp and paper mill at the mouth of the Puyallup River. A truck pulling a loaded trailer is seen at the left while a truck cab is seen backed up to a tall crane lifting a trailer to empty the chips into a chute. A truck cab pulling an empty trailer can be seen leaving the area in the middle of the photograph. Large silos (there are seven all together) seen on the right store wood ships for St. Regis' hungry pulp mill. Chips are transferred to the silos from outdoor piles before they go the digester.

Paper industry--Tacoma; St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1950-1960; Trucks--Tacoma--1950-1960;

A workman is drilling a hole for the door knob in a door using a specialized rack while another man on right is ready to move another door onto the rack at the new mill work plant in Mountlake Terrace. Ordered by Phares Advertising Agency, Times Square Building, Seattle.

Building materials industry--Mountlake Terrace; Building materials; Lumber--Mountlake Terrace;

The interior of the new mill work plant in Mountlake Terrace. Several men are working at machines with lumber stacked along the sides. Ordered by Phares Advertising Agency, Seattle.

Building materials industry--Mountlake Terrace; Building materials; Lumber--Mountlake Terrace;

The interior of the new mill work building in Mountlake Terrace is filled with stacks of wood and plywood. Several men are working with machines and wood. Ordered by Phares Advertising Agency, Seattle.

Building materials industry--Mountlake Terrace; Building materials; Lumber--Mountlake Terrace;

Two men are measuring shelves for two shelving units at the new mill work plant in Mountlake Terrace. Ordered by Phares Advertising Agency, Seattle.

Building materials industry--Mountlake Terrace; Building materials; Lumber--Mountlake Terrace; Shelving--Mountlake Terrace;

Man working on a fuse box attached to a wall filled with various sized fuse boxes at the new mill work plant in Mountlake Terrace. Ordered by Phares Advertising Agency, Seattle.

Building materials industry--Mountlake Terrace; Electrical apparatus;

Room full of large rectangular tanks- fermenting room.

Columbia Breweries, Inc. (Tacoma)--1950-1960; Brewing industry--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Two large silos with man standing on lower left side looking up the grain storage. Columbia Breweries stored the world's finest grains in these 3-story-high silos. The grain was siphoned from rail cars to the silos and from silo to hoppers pneumatically. (TNT, 1/8/1952, p.B-5)

Columbia Breweries, Inc. (Tacoma)--1950-1960; Brewing industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Silos--Tacoma;

The interior of the Fermenting Cellar at Columbia Breweries shows rows of open tanks. The air in this cellar was sterilized and refrigerated and the room was not open to tours but could only be viewed through glass from a specially-provided gallery. The exterior of the vats and the floor are covered with tile for ease of cleaning. (TNT, 1/8/1952, p.B-6)

Columbia Breweries, Inc. (Tacoma)--1950-1960; Brewing industry--Tacoma--1950-1960;

Studio set-up of hand board chips and shreds. Ordered by Douglas Fir Plywood Association.

Douglas Fir Plywood Association (Tacoma); Lumber industry--Tacoma--1950-1960;

Several people checking bottles in the bottle shop.

Columbia Breweries, Inc. (Tacoma)--1950-1960; Brewing industry--Tacoma--1940-1950;

The bottle shop at Columbia Breweries included an inspection section. Five employees are seated by lighted screens where each individual bottle was inspected as it passed through scientifically-lighted and image-magnifying inspection stations on their way to the labeling machine and to a packing machine for cartoning. (TNT, 10/13/1951, p.24)

Columbia Breweries, Inc. (Tacoma)--1950-1960; Brewing industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Bottles;

Columbia Breweries, banquet at Wedgewood Room, Winthrop Hotel. The large room is filled with men and women seated at long tables on December 19, 1951. They are enjoying Alt Heidelberg from bottles. Columbia Breweries was well known for its special lager brew.

Brewing industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Columbia Breweries, Inc. (Tacoma)--1950-1960; Banquets--Tacoma--1950-1960; Hotel Winthrop (Tacoma);

The exterior of the new, very long, two-story mill work plant in Mountlake Terrace. Asphalt paving leads to two large doors on right and a three-wheeled vehicle is sitting in front of the building. Ordered by Phares Advertising Agency, Seattle.

Building materials industry--Mountlake Terrace; Industrial facilities--Mountlake Terrace;

A workman moves a stack of cartons of Wesco's sweet peas using a forklift in a large warehouse. The pallet supporting the cartons has been made using plywood. Cartons of StarKist tuna are stacked on the other side of the doorway. Ordered by Douglas Fir Plywood Association.

Plywood; Douglas Fir Plywood Association (Tacoma); Shipping--Tacoma--1950-1960;

In October of 1951, five female employees at Washington Steel Products were busily assembling hinges from parts they retrieved from a rotating bin at the center of their round work table. Washington Steel, located at 1940 East 11th Street, was the only Northwest manufacturer of builder's hardware. They manufactured a complete line of hardware for the home, including knobs, pulls, hinges and rolling door hardware, as well as special designs and attachments for kitchen cabinets. They began operation in Seattle in 1945, moving to Tacoma in 1948. In 1950, they announced the first of several expansions of the plant. They closed their manufacturing facilities in 1963. Ordered by Douglas Fir Plywood Association.

Washington Steel Products, Inc. (Tacoma)--Employees; Plywood; Douglas Fir Plywood Association (Tacoma); Women--Tacoma--1950-1960;

Several female employees at Washington Steel Products are boxing small metal spice shelves along an assembly line with a conveyor belt running down the center of a wide table. Another line of workers can be seen on the left. Ordered by Douglas Fir Plywood Association.

Washington Steel Products, Inc. (Tacoma)--Employees; Plywood; Douglas Fir Plywood Association (Tacoma); Women--Tacoma--1950-1960;

A woman is seated next to a large bin of small parts at Washington Steel Products using a machine to attach small rollers to a plate. Boxes of the completed assembly are shown on the left. The bin was made of plywood and has metal banding around the sides and from top to bottom. Ordered by Douglas Fir Plywood Association.

Washington Steel Products, Inc. (Tacoma)--Employees; Plywood; Douglas Fir Plywood Association (Tacoma); Women--Tacoma--1950-1960;

A female employee at Washington Steel Products is scooping small pieces of hardware from a bin made of plywood. A revolving stand used to display hardware stands beside her. Washington Steel Products was founded in 1945. However, many of the ideas behind the products were formulated in the early 1930's as reported in 1952. C.M. Johnson, President of Washington Steel in 1952, had specialized in kitchen cabinet hardware when he worked for the Washington Hardware Company in the 1930's. Washington Steel Products had a heavy demand for their enameled metal food drawers, revolving corner shelves and their complete line of interior sliding door hardware such as knobs, pulls and hinges. Ordered by Douglas Fir Plywood Association. (Prudential Western Scene, December 1953)

Washington Steel Products, Inc. (Tacoma); Plywood; Douglas Fir Plywood Association (Tacoma);

Three women work together at Washington Steel Products packaging small pieces of hardware in envelopes. The woman in the middle is stamping the envelopes with the name of the product. The woman on the left holds the open envelope at the end of a sloping sleeve ready to catch the pieces being loaded at the top of the sleeve by the woman on the right. Ordered by Douglas Fir Plywood Association.

Washington Steel Products, Inc. (Tacoma)--Employees; Plywood; Douglas Fir Plywood Association (Tacoma); Women--Tacoma--1950-1960;

Launching of "Southern Pacific" at J.M. Martinac. The 123 foot tuna clipper was built for Lu Brito (skipper) along with John Silva. She had a capacity of 270 tons and a crew of 15. She was equipped with a 800-hp Enterprise engine, two 150-hp 120 kw GM generating sets, one 60 kw GM generating set for auxiliaries at a cost of $400,000. She was also equipped with Sperry automatic power steering and an automatic pilot; Tacoma Range Company electric range; a Coolidge propeller, TCA radio, Intervox direction finder and a Submarine Signal fathometer. Additionally she was seaplane equipped. (Ledger, 11/4/1951; Marine Digest, 12/22/1951) TPL-9055

Launchings--Tacoma--1950-1960; Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Fishing boats--Tacoma--1950-1960; J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp. (Tacoma);

Globe Machine personnel have gathered for a group portrait in front of the facility. Most of the men wear overalls or coveralls. The company manufactured machinery for veneer, plywood and wood-working purposes.

Machinery industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Machinery; Globe Machine Manufacturing Co. (Tacoma)--People;

Testing hardwood at the Plywood Research Foundation. Ordered by Douglas Fir Plywood Association.

Plywood Research Foundation (Tacoma); Plywood; Research facilities--Tacoma; Lumber industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Laboratories--Tacoma--1950-1960; Douglas Fir Plywood Association (Tacoma); Product inspection--Tacoma; Testing--Tacoma;

Testing hardwood at the Plywood Research Foundation. Ordered by Douglas Fir Plywood Association.

Plywood Research Foundation (Tacoma); Plywood; Research facilities--Tacoma; Lumber industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Laboratories--Tacoma--1950-1960; Douglas Fir Plywood Association (Tacoma); Product inspection--Tacoma; Testing--Tacoma;

Two workmen prepare a plywood wall for papering with a mural map at the Georgia Pacific Plywood Company in Olympia on December 24, 1951. Faint writing on the wall shows instructions for hanging the map. A wooden railing at the staircase on the right bends smoothly to a lower level in the building. Ordered by Douglas Fir Plywood Association.

Plywood; Douglas Fir Plywood Association (Tacoma); Georgia Pacific Plywood Co. (Olympia); Walls--Olympia; Maps;

A workman is papering a plywood wall at the Georgia Pacific Plywood Company in Olympia with a mural map of the State of Washington. Photograph was taken on Christmas Eve, 1951. Ordered by Douglas Fir Plywood Association.

Plywood; Douglas Fir Plywood Association (Tacoma); Georgia Pacific Plywood Co. (Olympia); Walls--Olympia; Maps;