A little girl touches a stuffed animal whose head emerges from a toy storage unit in a September 20, 1954, photograph. A variety of toys are scattered on the floor including a football helmet, glove, drum, dolls and books. These are probably going to be picked up and stored in the two wooden toy boxes. The boxes have wheels and are marked "delivery truck" and "moving van". It would make cleaning up faster and more fun as the toy chests are mobile; the child would be in charge of "driving" to pick up or deliver her toys. The "vehicles" could then be parked under the wooden desk for convenient storage. Photograph ordered by Douglas Fir Plywood Association.
Douglas Fir Plywood Association (Tacoma); Children playing with toys--Tacoma--1950-1960; Toys;
Plywood was a versatile product. It seemed like you could make anything out of plywood, including these charming store window Christmas cutouts. Two little wooden children, mouths wide open, are singing Christmas carols. This particular store was offering free Christmas plans using fir plywood for gifts, decorations and toys. A do-it-yourselfer could use the plans to create similar cutouts and then paint them in whichever colors he desired. Photograph ordered by Douglas Fir Plywood Association.
Douglas Fir Plywood Association (Tacoma); Plywood; Merchandise displays--Tacoma--1950-1960;
The winter cold does not seem to bother "Miss Pacific" as she smiles widely during her parade route. She is perched on the cab's roof just in front of a giant peeler log. Georgia-Pacific Plywood Co. had sponsored several entries in the November 27, 1954, Bellingham parade with a fleet of trucks hauling an impressive display of giant Douglas fir logs. "Miss Pacific", along with "Miss Georgia" and "Miss Peeler Log", participated wearing hobnailed boots, hard hats, short-shorts and sleeveless blouses. Photograph ordered by Georgia-Pacific Plywood Co. TPL-9509
An M.A. Couch truck is slowly making a turn past the Bellingham Bedding Co. and is careful not to dislodge neither the young model perched on the truck's cab or the giant peeler log on its bed. Georgia-Pacific Plywood Co. supplied several of the large Douglas fir logs for a parade down the main streets of Bellingham on November 27, 1954. Signs on the massive logs indicated that each peeler log would be sufficient to supply enough plywood to build 40 average homes. These logs were obtained locally from timber forests in Washington State. Photograph ordered by Georgia-Pacific Plywood Co.
Exterior of Puget Sound Plywood. A vertical sign juts out from the Puget Sound Plywood, Inc.'s company offices indicating it was "Soundbilt" in a November 23, 1954, photograph. The company plant is apparently next door across the parking lot. Puget Sound Plywood was situated on 3 1/2 acres in the Tideflats between the City and Middle Waterways. Railroad tracks shown here indicate that there was direct rail access for easy shipment of the company's plywood products. Photograph ordered by Douglas Fir Plywood Association.
Puget Sound Plywood, Inc. (Tacoma); Lumber industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Douglas Fir Plywood Association (Tacoma); Cooperatives--Tacoma;
An executive of Puget Sound Plywood, Inc., studies documents on November 23, 1954. The walls of his office are made of plywood; the wall closest to the door may be of knotted pine. His oversized desk is also made of wood; a copy of American Lumberman is visible on the top shelf of his inbox. Puget Sound Plywood was Tacoma's first cooperative plywood plant; it was founded in 1942 and had its facilities at 230 East F Street in the Tideflats. Photograph ordered by Douglas Fir Plywood Association.
Puget Sound Plywood, Inc. (Tacoma); Lumber industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Office workers--Tacoma--1950-1960; Plywood; Desks; Douglas Fir Plywood Association (Tacoma); Cooperatives--Tacoma;
Executives of Puget Sound Plywood, Inc., manufacturers of plywood, confer in the board room on November 23, 1954. The five executives all have documents in front of them and may be discussing an ad campaign as there is a copy of a cartoon introducing new usage for plywood. Harold Wenman (at right, in light coat) is apparently addressing his fellow workers. Mr. Wenman was an original shareholder of Puget Sound Plywood. The firm, the first cooperative plywood plant in Tacoma, opened on June 1, 1942. It had 298 members who each contributed $1000 and received the same hourly pay and percentage of the company's profits. Mr. Wenman had purchased his share before WWII and worked as the Office Manager for many years before becoming the General Manager from 1964-1970. A graduate of Knapps School of Business, he worked as an accountant for St. Regis, and then served as a staff sgt.in England during the war. Puget Sound Plywood continued to operate through the early 1980s but finally closed due to economic conditions. Photograph ordered by Douglas Fir Plywood Assn. (Additional information provided by a reader)
Puget Sound Plywood, Inc. (Tacoma); Wenman, Harold; Lumber industry--Tacoma--1950-1960; Plywood; Cooperatives--Tacoma; Office workers--Tacoma--1950-1960; Desks; Douglas Fir Plywood Association (Tacoma);
Workers at the Buffelen company appear to be in the process of stacking doors in a December 7, 1954, photograph. There are already two tall towers of doors against the wall. Two men are lifting a door while the third waits to toss it on top of the pile. Photograph ordered by the Condon Co., an advertising agency.
ca. 1956. Port McNeil, logging. This is possibly a company home provided for management. It is larger and more ornate than those provided for the workers. The window boxes bloom with flowers and the yard is surrounded by a white board fence. The poles sticking up from the beach area are possible oyster beds.
ca. 1956. Alaska Pine, Rayflo plant at Marpole. Experimentation was an important part of research at Rayonier and its Canadian subsidiary Alaska Pine. Cellulose and timber production produced a large amount of wasted byproducts which the company felt could be developed into the products of the future. Rayflo was one of these products; developed only a few years prior, it was in high demand in the oil industry and being studied for use in the manufacture of ceramics. (Rayonier's annual report for 1956)
Lumber industry--British Columbia--1950-1960; Trees; Logs; Chemical industry--British Columbia--1950-1960; Alaska Pine & Cellulose Limited (Vancouver B.C.);
ca. 1956. Alaska Pine; Rayflo plant at Marpole. Alaska Pine, a Canadian subsidiary of Rayonier Inc., had a research center in its Vancouver B.C. offices. It was used to quality control test the cellulose and the products manufactured from it. They also experimented with the residue from the process, searching for new products. The new lab facilities in Vancouver were completed in 1954. More money was being invested in research, in hopes of creating new products and more company growth.
Lumber industry--British Columbia--1950-1960; Trees; Logs; Chemical industry--British Columbia--1950-1960; Alaska Pine & Cellulose Limited (Vancouver B.C.);
Scenes from Potlatch Forests, Inc., pulp and paper operations, Lewiston, Idaho. Aerial view of what is probably the massive Potlatch Forests, Inc., plant in Lewiston, Idaho, taken in late September-early October, 1964. Plant operations were situated in what appears to be a sparsely populated area. Potlatch products could be conveyed by water, road, and railroad to customers nationwide. Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie, industrial consultant, New York, for inclusion in the company's annual report.
Lumber industry--Idaho--1960-1970; Paper industry--Idaho--1960-1970; Industrial facilities--Idaho; Aerial photographs;
Man in hard hat inspects stacked logs that have labeled in this July, 1964, photograph. The logs are more than twice his height. It was possibly taken in the Olympic Peninsula since other photographs were taken in the Grays Harbor area roughly the same time for Malcolm McGhie, industrial consultant from New York.
Scenes from Potlatch Forests, Inc., pulp and paper operations, Lewiston, Idaho. Warehouse employees in the foreground are busy packing loads of Clearwater facial tissue into cardboard boxes in the fall of 1964. The small boxes of tissues pass through a conveyer belt onto a rectangular table for shipping. A tall stack of boxes containing Clearwater toilet paper is nearby. Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie, industrial consultant, New York, for inclusion in Potlatch Forests' annual report.
Lumber industry--Idaho--1960-1970; Paper industry--Idaho--1960-1970; Warehouses--Idaho--Lewiston; Potlatch Forests, Inc. (Lewiston, ID);
Man in hard hat surveys stand of tall trees. This photograph was taken on Potlatch Forests property in the Lewiston, Idaho, area, for possible inclusion in the company's annual report. Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie, industrial consultant, New York.
Lumber industry--Idaho--1960-1970; Potlatch Forests, Inc. (Lewiston, ID); Trees;
Members of Douglas Fir Plywood Association chuckle over results of the golf tournament held as part of their 22nd annual meeting in June, 1958. It may be that one player has lost a wager; he is shown with a dollar bill in his hand. The D.F.P.A. met in Gearhart, Oregon, that year. Photograph ordered by Douglas Fir Plywood Association.
Douglas Fir Plywood Association (Tacoma); Golf--Oregon--Gearhart;
Plywood is being laid on this large roof in a May 16, 1958, photograph. One worker is observed with his back to the camera; he is standing on a portion of the roof which has a plywood sheet partially covering it. Long planks of wood are placed horizontally over the roofline. Photograph ordered by Douglas Fir Plywood Association.
Plywood; Building construction; Douglas Fir Plywood Association (Tacoma);
Timber! A logger watches as a tall tree makes its slow descent to the ground in a September, 1958, photograph. Limbs may already have been pruned before the tree was toppled. Stumps and tree debris indicate that logging has already occurred in this area. Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie, industrial consultant. TPL-9430
Improved machinery helped workers in more efficient harvesting of designated logs. Cable lines attached to the rear of a bulldozer haul away two smaller logs. Another log waits its turn to be removed. The bulldozer would also serve as an earth remover to clear paths in the forest. Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie, industrial consultant. TPL-9429
ca. 1959. Logging on the Olympic Peninsula, ordered by Malcolm McGhie for Rayonier Inc. A faller completes the undercut on a large cedar tree in the Crane Creek logging area. In Washington during the late 50's, Rayonier would cut and haul more than 240 million board feet of logs a year. TPL-9431
Lumber industry--Grays Harbor--1950-1960; Trees; Logs; Rayonier, Inc. (Grays Harbor);
Logging on the Olympic Peninsula, ordered by Malcolm McGhie for Rayonier. In Washington during the late fifties, Rayonier Inc and its logging contractors would cut and haul more than 240,000,000 board feet of logs a year. Here logs are being moved from a logging truck to a railway car where they will be shipped to the company's mill over their own logging railway. A large wood frame holds a series of steel cord and grapplers that lift the logs, they then are moved by pulleys to the area over the railroad car and loaded. (Rayonier Annual Report for 1959)
ca. 1960. Man stares at log probably retrieved from log pond below in this ca. 1960 photograph. The outer bark appears to have been shredded in spots. Another man is maneuvering a log in the pond with a long pole.
Caught in the act of falling is a slender tree on Rayonier property in Grays Harbor. At the time of this July 1966 photograph, the company had been established in Washington state for forty years. It now has a global presence and supplies its timber to paper, pulp, and other wood products markets. (no print on file, scan from original negative)
Rayonier, Inc. (Grays Harbor); Lumber industry--Grays Harbor--1960-1970; Saws;
Scenes from Idaho logging operations. Two men sitting beside an enormous tree appear to be studying a map of the forest area in this mid-July, 1966, photograph. They are Potlatch Forests, Inc., employees as evidenced by the pfi logo on their hard hats. Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie, industrial consultant, New York.
Potlatch Forests, Inc. (Lewiston, ID); Lumber industry--Idaho--1960-1970;
1966 Scenes from Idaho plywood mill. Potlatch Forests, Inc., workers are pictured shifting plywood sheets from an assembly line onto large wheeled carts in mid-July, 1966. Once stacked, they are moved off the carts in rows and numbered. The men pictured were just a few of the many hired by Potlatch Forests, one of the area's largest employers. Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie, industrial consultant, New York.
Potlatch Forests, Inc. (Lewiston, ID); Lumber industry--Idaho--1960-1970;
Scenes from Idaho logging operations. Two Potlatch Forests, Inc., employees survey the dense forestlands near Lewiston, Idaho, in mid-July, 1966. They are possibly the same men pictured in A150112, image 28. Hard hats were de rigueur although no other safety clothing is apparently worn. The men were probably wearing heavy duty boots as a precaution. Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie, industrial consultant, New York.
Potlatch Forests, Inc. (Lewiston, ID); Lumber industry--Idaho--1960-1970; Forests--Idaho;
Scene from Idaho Potlatch Forests logging operations. Shot from a possible hillside is a common scene from logging operations: logs being carefully loaded onto a waiting truck. A dirt road has been carved from the encroaching forest in order trees may be harvested. Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie, industrial consultant, New York.
Potlatch Forests, Inc. (Lewiston, ID); Lumber industry--Idaho--1960-1970; Logs;
Sections from a dense forest have been harvested and a dirt road carved out of a hillside to transport logs to nearby Potlatch Forests mills in Idaho. Color photograph taken in July of 1966 for Malcolm McGhie, New York industrial consultant. (scan from original color positive, no print on file)
Potlatch Forests, Inc. (Lewiston, ID); Lumber industry--Idaho--1960-1970; Logs;
1966 Idaho logging operations. After the logs are harvested, they are brought to one of the many Potlatch Forests, Inc., mills near the Jaype, Idaho, area. Piles of logs are stacked near the large mill above. The plumes of smoke emerging from several chimneys indicate the mill is apparently in full operation. Photograph ordered by Malcolm McGhie, industrial consultant, New York. (Additional identification provided by a reader)
Potlatch Forests, Inc.; Lumber industry--Idaho--1960-1970; Paper industry--Idaho--1960-1970;
Logger, chainsaw in hand, examines tree in this photograph dating from July of 1966. The name "Frank" Feller was written on the image storage sleeve. It is not clear whether Feller referred to "Frank's" last name or his occupation as a person who cuts down, or "fells," trees. The stand of trees were believed to be located near the Lewiston, Idaho area and part of the Potlatch Forests property. (scan from original color positive, no print on file)
Saws; Lumber industry--Idaho--1960-1970; Potlatch Forests, Inc. (Lewiston, ID);
