Historical industry photo porn open thread

GrundleStiltzkin

Men loading creosoted railroad ties for China onto the deck of the British ship SS HEADLEY, possibly Eagle Harbor, probably 1914

GrundleStiltzkin

Men standing on top of long logs on rail car, probably 1906-1928

NoWarningJustDawg

GrundleStiltzkin said:

YellowSnow said:

RaceBannon said:

Looks like the Spanish Vid may have killed him

Little early for the Kansas City flu. That came a little later.

Kansas City origin is the leading of 3 hypotheses. Others being Marseilles, and China in the winter of 1917.

Tiny Haskell County in SW Kansas where it is suspected to have originated is technically closer to both Denver and Santa Fe than Kansas City, but whatever.
Funston, now Ft Riley, gets a lot of mention as where it exploded in numbers a month later due to the constant presence of tens of thousands of soldiers living in close proximity and the family and friends that would visit them there.

(High Plains geography superiority Dawg; there's one on every site)

LebamDawg

The 39th Regiment marches down 2nd Ave. with their flu masks on, passing Cheasty’s Haberdashery, ca. October/November 1918.


Damn - who was the President that sent troops in to make sure everyone was putting their masks on correctly?

whatshouldicareabout

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Men standing on top of long logs on rail car, probably 1906-1928

Brave of those men for standing on those logs for 22 years straight.

PurpleThrobber

RaceBannon said:

Hiram M. Chittenden
American engineer

Hiram Martin Chittenden was an American engineer and historian. A graduate of West Point, he was the Seattle district engineer for the Army Corps of Engineers from 1906 to 1908. Chittenden was one of the first three elected Port Commissioners at the Port of Seattle. Wikipedia

Born: October 25, 1858, Yorkshire, NY
Died: October 9, 1917, Seattle, WA

Projects: Chittenden Bridge, Grand Loop Road Historic District, Roosevelt Arch, Ballard (Hiram M. Chittenden) Locks

Education: United States Military Academy, Cornell University

I liked his seafood.

GrundleStiltzkin

Two men cutting down a tree with two-man chainsaw in foreground, Bloedel, Stewart and Welch logging company's operations, Vancouver Island, ca. 1933-1951

GrundleStiltzkin

Two men standing on railroad trestle under construction, unidentified Bloedel-Donovan lumber operation, June 4, 1920

RaceBannon

Born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, Bloedel moved from Wisconsin to Fairhaven, Washington (later Bellingham) in 1890, where he became president of Fairhaven National Bank. He engaged in several frontier business ventures, including the Samish Lake Lumber and Mill Company, Blue Canyon Coal Mines, and, as mentioned, the Fairhaven National Bank. He partnered and worked closely with the Bellingham pioneers. Although many of these operations folded eventually, Bloedel's financial know-how managed to keep him afloat through a series of boom-and-bust economic trials. In August 1898, he founded the Whatcom Logging Company with fellow frontier businessmen John Joseph Donovan and Peter Larson, which would later become known as the Bloedel-Donovan Lumber Mills. A park with this name exists today in Bellingham, which sits on the site of Bloedel's first lumber mill, which he dedicated as a park in 1946.[1]

Using his existing operation in Bellingham as collateral, he began acquiring land in Canada, hoping to expand his lumber operation. In 1911, he and two new partners, John Stewart and Patrick Welch, came to Canada and began acquiring large blocks of forests on British Columbia's Vancouver Island.[2] The Bloedel, Stewart and Welch operation eventually overshadowed Bloedel's previous ventures and their Franklin River logging camp soon became one of the world's largest logging operations. Here, in the 1930s, the Canadian logging industry saw its first steel spar and chainsaw. Welch and Stewart were also contractors on the construction of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, operating with another partner as Foley, Welch & Stewart.

In the fall of 1911, the same year he started his Canadian logging operation, he moved to Seattle, where he lived with his wife, Mina Louise Prentice. He had three children: Prentice, Lawrence, and Charlotte. Julius Bloedel died in Seattle in 1957.[3]

In the 1950s, now under the direction of his son Prentice, Bloedel's company merged with the HR MacMillan Company to form one of the largest forest products companies in the world. MacMillan Bloedel Limited, often called just "Mac-Blo", was eventually taken over by Weyerhaeuser in 1999. Bloedel Hall at the University of Washington in Seattle was named for Julius Bloedel. The Bloedel Conservatory of Queen Elizabeth Park in Vancouver was named for his son Prentice Bloedel for donating nearly $1.4 million for its construction in 1967. The Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island, Washington, was created by Prentice Bloedel and his wife Virginia.

His son Lawrence Bloedel was the librarian of Williams College. Upon his death, his collection of 300 artworks was bequeathed to the Whitney Museum of American Art and to the Williams College Museum of Art.[4] After Lawrence's death, his widow, Eleanore Bloedel, bequeathed Field Farm in Williamstown, Massachusetts to The Trustees of Reservations.[5]

GrundleStiltzkin

Unconnected pipes laid leading downhill, probably Washington, between 1900 and 1915