wasmhi1991_82.xml Guide to the Wood & Iverson Co. Collection 1905-1943 Wood & Iverson Co. Collection Finding aid prepared by Sheri Boggs Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Museum of History & Industry © 2006
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Finding aid encoded by Jody Hendrickson 2006 Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS ( Describing Archives: A Content Standard). Museum of History & Industry, Sophie Frye Bass Library
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1991.82 Wood and Iverson Lumber Company Wood & Iverson Co. Collection 1905-1943 1 box .3 linear feet This collection consists of photographs and negatives taken of the Wood & Iverson logging operations in Roosevelt and Hobart, Washington. 2b.2.10 VII.b.2 (panorama) Collection materials are in English. Historical Note:

The Wood & Iverson Co. began in 1896 as a shingle mill operation at Roosevelt, Washington, five miles east of Snohomish on French Creek. By 1909, William Washington Wood and Ivar C. Iverson (who knew one another from working together in previous logging operations) had saved enough money to buy timber acreage at Hobart, Washington, near Issaquah. In 1915 they opened a large sawmill, complete with a blacksmith shop, a locomotive house, brick dry kilns, a log pond and a wooden flume more than half a mile long. Wood & Iverson Co. employed roughly 200 men and turned out a variety of lumber supplies, including dimension lumber, siding, molding, pipe staves, lath and shingles, and even airplane stock.

The small community of Hobart became a bona fide “company town,” offering a general store, 35 company-built houses, a three-story hotel, and a post office. Because of Hobart’s distance from any nearby banks, the company also issued its own currency -- aluminum “hickeys” that came in denominations up to $20 and which could be used not only at the general store but were also honored in Renton, Maple Valley, Issaquah and even the Seattle Hotel. When William Wood died in 1932, his son Russell took over operations. The firm was dissolved in 1945 and little remains of the old sawmill site, which is near present day S.R. 18.

The collection consists of black-and-white photographs and negatives of Wood & Iverson Co. operations. Subjects include spar tree logging, steam donkeys, gas yarders, pile drivers, logging camps, exterior shots of the Wood & Iverson Co. sawmill, group shots of work crews with old-growth Cedar, and a Bucyrus Erie D-2 Diesel shovel grading for railroad. The collection also includes a panoramic view of the Wood & Iverson mill at Hobart by Darius Kinsey, and a sketch of the old Peacock farm near Hobart by W.H. Piggott.

The collection is open to the public by appointment.

The Museum of History & Industry is the owner of the materials in the Sophie Frye Bass Library and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from MOHAI before any reproduction use. The museum does not necessarily hold copyright to all of the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from the copyright owners.

Wood & Iverson Co. Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle

Donated by Gertrude Wood Stack in 1991.

Photographs of the Wood & Iverson Lumber Company from the Maple Valley Historical Society are available online at University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections.

Wood & Iverson: Loggers of Tiger Mountain, by Ken Schmelzer. Oso Publishing Company. Arlington, Wash. 2001.

One Hundred Years on the Cedar, by Morda C. Slauson. 1967. (Wood & Iverson history on p. 20-22)

 Wood, William Washington, 1868-1932 Iverson, Iver C., 1872-1945 Kinsey, Darius, 1869-1945 Washington (State), Western Lumber Camps—Washington (State) Logging—Washington (State)—Tiger Mountain Region--History Logging Forestry and Forestry Products Washington (State) Photographic prints Nitrate negatives

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

1991.82.1 Crew at Wood & Iverson Shingle Mill, including Billy Iverson 1991.82.2 Early steam and horse logging. 1905

W.W. Wood standing near center of log in foreground.

 1991.82.3 Single drum steam donkey using ground lead at Roosevelt, Wash. 1991.82.4 Hauling shingles on cross planked road to railroad siding near Monroe, Wash. 1991.82.5-8 Bucyrus Erie D-2 diesel shovel grading for Wood & Iverson logging railroad 1929 1991.82.9 Railroad grade with spar tree in background 1991.82.10 Crew, including Otto Iverson, loading logs on railroad skeleton cars 1940 1991.82.11 Crew with gas-powered yarding donkey 1941 1991.82.12 Skagit Log Co.’s log dump at Day Creek Camp 1943 1991.82.13 Government snag boat of Skagit River 1943 1991.82.14 Skagit Log Co.’s log rafting works at Day Creek Camp 1942 1991.82.15 Salvaging logs on the Skagit River for the Skagit Log Co. 1942 1991.82.16 Northern Pacific Railroad log cars loaded with logs 1991.82.17 Raising a fir spar tree at Skagit Log Co.’s Day Creek Camp 1941 1991.82.18 Gas yarder on flatcar 1991.82.19 Gas yarder and spar tree 1991.82.20 Gas yarder operating 1991.82.21 Steam locomotive and skeleton cars in winter 1991.82.22 Pile driver and railroad trestle construction 1991.82.23 Building being moved by truck during Hobart clean-up 1941 1991.82.24 Wood & Iverson, Inc., postcard depicting the early days of the high lead (spar tree) logging at Hobart 1917 1991.82.25 Gas yarder, spar trees and heel boom for loading logs 1991.82.26 Spar tree being raised. 1991.82.27 Spar tree in final position 1991.82.28 Steam loading and yarding donkey, spar tree and crew 1991.82.29 Steam donkey, spar tree and railroad track 1991.82.30 Atlas diesel yarder on top of Tiger Mountain 1991.82.31 Skeleton railroad cars loaded with large logs 1991.82.32 Steam locomotive fighting bunkhouse fire 1991.82.33 Unfinished railroad trestle 1991.82.34 Steam jammer loading logs on railroad cars 1991.82.35 Cedar logs on tideflats (log dump) 1991.82.36 Cedar logs on tideflats 1991.82.37 The old Peacock farm near Hobart, Wash. Sketch by W.H. Piggott 1991.82.38-.41 Wood & Iverson mill crew, Hobart, Wash. 1991.82.42 Wood & Iverson Climax locomotive #2 and train 1991.82.43 Darius Kinsey Panoramic view of Wood & Iverson mill at Hobart. 1991.82.44 Reduced copy of .43 1991.82.45 Spar tree 1991.82.46-.47 Negative – old Wood & Iverson camp on spur east of the Campbell ranch 1991.82.48 Negative -- New road on branch of Issaquah Creek 1991.82.49 Negative -- Bunk house 1991.82.50 Negative – Man by building circa 1920 1991.82.51 Negative -- Hot water boiler for both house and laundry, Wood & Iverson, Inc. logging camp above Campbell ranch 1991.82.52 Negative -- Warren Iverson at Wood Iverson Inc. logging camp above Campbell ranch 1991.82.53 Negative – Man by building 1991.82.54 Negative – Man by building 1991.82.55 Spar tree, two steam donkeys and railroad track 1991.82.56 Russ Wood 1991.82.57 Russ Wood and Pete Peterson