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Unidentified cannery interior, Pacific Coast, n.d.
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Unidentified logging camp near Olympia, Washington, 1897
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Unidentified logging camp showing crew members standing by railroad tracks
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Unidentified man standing between rows of freezing halibut in a cold storage plant, Washington, ca. 1928
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View of mill with smoke from smokestack in high wind, Bloedel-Donovan Lumber Mills, ca. 1922-1923
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View of the Pacific Creosoting Company across the water from the log boom, Eagle Harbor, probably 1914
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Just over a mile from my place. Wanna talk about COVID breeding ground? They've started spreading people out, but for a while there, Bloedel Donovan Park made the beaches of Miami during spring break look sparsely populated.RaceBannon said: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]
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They stopped showing California beaches1to392831weretaken said:
Just over a mile from my place. Wanna talk about COVID breeding ground? They've started spreading people out, but for a while there, Bloedel Donovan Park made the beaches of Miami during spring break look sparsely populated.RaceBannon said: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]
People like to beach. What are you gonna do? -
What are you going to do indeed?
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Couple early logging - family portrait
logging train
last one is from this slide show
https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/local/seattle-history/article/Photos-A-tale-of-the-Northwest-s-logging-past-6775332.php#photo-9284721
