Great Northern Railroad Cascade Tunnel Construction photographs, approximately 1925-1927

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• Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925

  1 folder (49 photographs)

  Scope and Content: Photographs of the construction of the Great Northern Railway Eight-Mile Tunnel in the Cascade Mountains, 1925.

  Physical/Technical Access: Album was taken apart because it had deteriorated; the original order was retained.

  Restrictions on Access: Entire collection can be viewed on the Libraries' Digital Collections website. Permission of Visual Materials curator is required to view originals. Contact Special Collections for more information.

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  Album was taken apart because it had deteriorated; the original order was retained.

  Restrictions on Use: Restrictions may exist on reproduction, quotation, or publication. Contact Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries for details.

  Acquisition Info: Donor: William Stanley, 1986

  • Description: Creek near the Cascade railroad tunnel in the snow

    General Notes: Written on photo: "Old creek bed opposite STA 58+00 - 72+00"

    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 1a
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Building on a hill in the snow, possibly a snow shed over the railway tracks
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 1b
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Snowy valley in the Cascade Mountains
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 1c
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Bucyrus steam shovel digging a trench for the Cascade Railway tunnel
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 2a
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Snowy valley and buildings in the Cascade Mountains
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 2b
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Snowy valley in the Cascade Mountains
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 2c
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: People working near large trench with steam shovel in background
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 2d
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Horses pulling lumber in the snow
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 3d
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Steam shovels and crew along the edge of a ditch

    General Notes: Written on photo: Star 19, Cyclone

    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 4a
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: The BNSF railway line in the Cascade Mountains
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 4b
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Steam shovels digging ditch for Cascade Railway tunnel
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 4c
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Construction camp along railway line

    General Notes: Written on photo: Camp 2, Feb. 20

    Dates: February 20, 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 4d
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Train crossing the Mill Creek bridge at Mill Creek valley
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 5a
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Railway bridge on the BNSF railway line in the Cascade Mountains
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 5b
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: BNSF railway line in the Cascade Mountains with houses in the distance
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 5c
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Man with wheelbarrow working among uprooted trees

    General Notes: Written on photo: 967-982, June 1925

    Dates: June 6, 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 6a
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: People aboard a grounded Drummond Lighterage Company barge carrying railway ties
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 6b
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Mill Creek at a channel change
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 6c
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Steam shovels digging ditch along the BNSF railway line in the Cascade Mountains
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 6d
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Construction along ditch in the BNSF railway line in the Cascade Mountains
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 7a
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Drummond Lighterage Company Seattle barge loaded with railway ties
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 7b
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Railway bridge on the BNSF railway line in the Cascade Mountains
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 7c
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Active steam shovel and construction crew in a ditch
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 7d
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: People with wheelbarrows clearing the terrain of tree stumps

    General Notes: Written on photo: STA 967 - 982, June 6, 1925

    Dates: June 6, 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 8a
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Bucyrus steam shovel excavating ditch for the Cascade Railway tunnel
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 8b
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: People with wheelbarrows clearing terrain of tree stumps

    General Notes: Written on photo: STA 977, June 6, 1925

    Dates: June 6, 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 8c
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Well drills in operation above train on tracks below

    General Notes: Written on photo: Well drills at work, Camp 2 cut

    Dates: June 6, 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 9a
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: People clearing terrain of tree stumps

    General Notes: Written on photo: 967 - 982, June 6, 1925

    Dates: June 6, 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 9b
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: People clearing terrain of tree stumps

    General Notes: Written on photo: 967 - 982, June 6, 1925

    Dates: June 6, 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 9c
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Construction camp along the railway line

    General Notes: Written on photo: Camp 2

    Dates: June 6, 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 9d
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Rocky terrain along a creek in the Cascade Mountains
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 10a
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Steam shovel digging ditch for the Cascade railroad tunnel
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 10b
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Dirt path leading to creek in the Cascade Mountains
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 10c
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Steam shovel digging with creek in the background
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 10d
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Steam shovel digging trench for the Cascade Railway tunnel
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 11a
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Muddy terrain with creek in the background
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 11b
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Marion steam shovel in the Cascade Mountains
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 11c
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Small dam with creek in the background in the Cascade Mountains

    General Notes: Written on verso: Through cut. Gap and small dam STA 275+00. Water is going around through cut and through gap.

    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 11d
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Marion steam shovel on bank of canal in the Cascade Mountains

    General Notes: Written on verso: Closing old canal and cutting water into through cut.

    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 12a
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Marion steam shovel up close
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 12b
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Steam shovel digging in the Cascade Mountains
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 12c
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Marion steam shovel digging in the Cascade Mountains

    General Notes: Written on verso: Heaviest part of through cut - wasting on upper side

    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 12d
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Clear cut terrain
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 13a
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Man with survey instrument on barren terrain in the Cascade Mountains
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 13b
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Tree stumps across clear cut terrain in the Cascade Mountains
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 13c
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: People at railroad tunnel portal in the Cascade Mountains

    General Notes: Written on verso: Portal of audit #2, Jim Lawler facing the camera. Vulcan used exclusively here in the hardest rock of the whole tunnel line

    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 14a
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Swinging steam shovel digging railway construction
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 14b
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Horses clearing area for railway construction
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 14c
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
  • Description: Ditch along hillside with Cascade Mountains in the distance
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Folder 1, Item 14d
    Location: Accession No. PH0103: William Stanley photograph album, approximately 1925
• Description: Accession No. PH2025-003: Great Northern Railroad Cascade Tunnel Construction photographs, approximately 1927

  1 folder (30 photographic prints)

  Scope and Content: Photographs taken by worker John Henry Duggan of the construction of the Cascade Tunnel portion of the Great Northern Railroad near Mill Creek.

  Biographical/Historical Note: John Henry Duggan worked for the Great Northern Railroad in the 1920s through the 1930s.

  Restrictions on Access: No restrictions on access.

  Restrictions on Use: Creator's copyrights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections.

  Acquisition Info: Purchased from Fairlook Antiques, October 2024