From the Archives: historic logging photos

December 17, 2018

(Photos courtesy Washington State Digital Archives)

Logging is one of the industries that helped literally build Washington and put it on the map during its territorial days more than a century ago. While logging activity has cooled in recent decades, the Evergreen State remains one of the top producers of logs and wood products in the U.S. Our State Archives has a large collection of logging-related photos from yesteryear. We’re featuring three of them here. The locations where the three logging photos were taken are unknown. The 1900 photo at top shows a train hauling logs through a cleared forest. Two men stand at the front of the train.

The middle photo, shot around 1920, features a group of men standing on a log pile. The bottom photo, taken in 1893, features two men with a team of horses pulling a log through forest on a skid road. The photos are from the Digital Archives’ General Subjects Photograph Collection, 1845-2005. The collection consists of nearly 2,800 images of various subjects related to Washington’s history, people, politics, agriculture, towns, logging, industry and buildings.

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