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Logging and mess hall crews at camp, Copalis Lumber Company, ca 1917 (KINSEY 68)

Logging and mess hall crews at camp, Copalis Lumber Company, ca 1917 (KINSEY 68)

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Caption on image: Copalis Lumber Co., Carlisle, Wash. C. Kinsey Photo, Seattle. No. 43 PH Coll 516.815The Copalis Lumber Company was in business from 1914 to 1920. It's logging railroad was absorbed into the Carlisle Lumber Company. Carlisle is a small settlement on the Copalis River four miles east of the Pacific Ocean in southwest Grays Harbor County. When established in 1912 by the Carlisle Lumber Company, it was a busy logging and sawmill center. It continued to be active until the company's timber supply was exhausted. It was named for the lumber company, which originated from Wisconsin and was founded by William Carlisle.
Subjects (LCTGM): Loggers; Cooks; Waitresses--Washington (State); Benches--Washington (State); Railroad tracks--Washington (State); Lumber camps--Washington (State); Lumber industry--Washington (State); Copalis Lumber Company--People--Washington (State); Copalis Lumber Company--Facilities--Washington (State); Grays Harbor County (Wash.); Group portraits

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1917
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Kinsey Brothers Photographs of the Lumber Industry and the Pacific Northwest
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