Historical industry photo porn open thread
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Little early for the Kansas City flu. That came a little later.RaceBannon said:Looks like the Spanish Vid may have killed him
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Kansas City origin is the leading of 3 hypotheses. Others being Marseilles, and China in the winter of 1917.YellowSnow said:
Little early for the Kansas City flu. That came a little later.RaceBannon said:Looks like the Spanish Vid may have killed him
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Men dumping clams into horse-drawn wagon for weighing, Sea Beach Packing Works, Copalis, ca. 1916
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Men guiding a log into place with Navy ship in background, during a rebuilding and extension project at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, March 5, 1923
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Spanish Flu - Seattle
A Seattle Green Lake trolley conductor and passengers with flu masks, October 1918. A little over a year from when this photo was taken, a Green Lake trolley with more than 100 passengers aboard jumped the track, killing one and injuring 70 others. The Green Lake trolley line is now Green Lake Way North.
The 39th Regiment marches down 2nd Ave. with their flu masks on, passing Cheasty’s Haberdashery, ca. October/November 1918.
A group of Seattle men line up to receive their influenza vaccines, ca. November 1918. Seattle, like several other cities, placed great emphasis on a public vaccination campaign as a way of halting the spread of the disease. Unfortunately, vaccines at the time were useless.
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Men loading creosoted railroad ties for China onto the deck of the British ship SS HEADLEY, possibly Eagle Harbor, probably 1914
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Men standing on top of long logs on rail car, probably 1906-1928
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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.GrundleStiltzkin said:
Kansas City origin is the leading of 3 hypotheses. Others being Marseilles, and China in the winter of 1917.YellowSnow said:
Little early for the Kansas City flu. That came a little later.RaceBannon said:Looks like the Spanish Vid may have killed him
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.
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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?
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Brave of those men for standing on those logs for 22 years straight.GrundleStiltzkin said:Men standing on top of long logs on rail car, probably 1906-1928
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I liked his seafood.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
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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
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Two men standing on railroad trestle under construction, unidentified Bloedel-Donovan lumber operation, June 4, 1920
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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] -
Unconnected pipes laid leading downhill, probably Washington, between 1900 and 1915
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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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kugPD36y5YA
