WAUCressJohnDPHColl213.xml Guide to the John D. Cress Lumber Industry of the Pacific Northwest: Reforestation - Timber - Logging - Manufacture Photograph Album 1918-1926 Cress (John D.) Photograph Album Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries © 2002 (Last modified: 1/31/2020)
Seattle, WA 98195
Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard). University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections PH0213 Cress, John D., 1864-1940 Lumber Industry of the Pacific Northwest: Reforestation - Timber - Logging - Manufacture 1918-1926 21 photographic prints English Photographs of the logging industry in Washington State from forest to finished boards for shipment.

John D. Cress, "the Forest Fotographer," was a Seattle photographer located at 1330 7th, who specialized in photographing the lumber industry.

The album begins with an examination of old growth timber in the northwest and then depicts the various activities of felling trees, transporting them, and milling them, ending with a load of timber ready for shipment.

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The album has fallen apart, but the album cover and the original order of the photographs have been retained.

Processed by Nicolette Bromberg, 2001.

John D. Cress Photographs, PH Coll. 431. Cress, John D. Personal Memoirs of John D. Cress . Seattle, 1930. Microform and Newspaper Reading Room, Microfilm A636.

Cress, John D., 1864-1940 Logging--Washington (State)--Photographs Logging--Equipment and supplies--Photographs Lumber trade--Washington (State)--Photographs Log transportation--Washington (State)--Photographs Sawmills--Washington (State)--Photographs Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington) Photographs Washington (State) Business, Industry, and Labor Forestry and Forest Products Logging

 

1/1 Album cover: The Lumber Industry of the Pacific Northwest: Reforestation - Timber - Logging - Manufacture Between 1918 and 1928? 1/2 Timber resources of the Pacific Northwest ---present and future 1926 1/3 Panoramas of a stand of old growth Douglas fir and hemlock timber in Jefferson County, Washington Between 1918 and 1928? 1/4 Douglas fir Between 1918 and 1928? 1/5 Western red cedar Between 1918 and 1928? 1/6 Western hemlock Between 1918 and 1928? 1/7 Sitka spruce Between 1918 and 1928? 1/8 Falling and bucking Between 1918 and 1928? 1/9 Sky line logging and by slide to dam, with log camp of portable houses, Hood Canal, Washington Between 1918 and 1928? 1/10 Topping a spar tree and high lead logging Between 1918 and 1928? 1/11 Setting chokers 1924 1/12 Loading logs with swinging boom and log train, Pacific Spruce Company, Lincoln County, Oregon Between 1918 and 1928? 1/13 Splash of big logs as they are unloaded at log dump train, Pacific Spruce Company, Lincoln County, Oregon / Log pond, Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. Mill, Everett, Washington Between 1918 and 1928? 1/14 Filing rooms, with single and double-cutting band saws Between 1918 and 1928? 1/15 Band saw and edger Between 1918 and 1928? 1/16 Center of saw mill and the trimmer 1918 1/17 Gang saws and resaws 1918 1/18 Grading and sorting sheds, Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. Mill, Everett, Washington Between 1918 and 1928? 1/19 Stacker, dry kilns, cooling shed, and unstacker 1918, 1922 1/20 Interior of planing mill, edge-grain stepping and wide slash-grain fir finish Between 1918 and 1928? 1/21 Lumber carriers and cranes Between 1918 and 1928? 1/22 A cargo mill and some large Douglas fir timbers, Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. Mill, Everett, Washington Between 1918 and 1928?