Logging crew on flat car pulled by Mud Bay Logging Company's Baldwin 2-6-2TT locomotive no. 3, n.d

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unidentified

Description

In 1899, Mark Draham, founder of the Mason County Logging Company, left that company and incorporated Western Washington Logging Company. This company, in turn, evolved into the Mud Bay Logging Company in 1910. Mud Bay Logging Company operated in the area west of Olympia until 1941.Mud Bay is a bay at the head of Eld Inlet four miles west of Olympia in northwest Thurston County. Oyster beds in the bay once produced the famous Olympia oysters. At low tides the name is very descriptive.

Creator

Kinsey, Clark

Partner

University of Washington

Contributing Institution

University of Washington

Subjects

Loggers; Railroad locomotives--Washington (State); Railroad cars--Washington (State); Railroad tracks--Washington (State); Lumber camps--Washington (State); Lumber industry--Washington (State); Mud Bay Logging Company--People--Washington (State); Mud Bay Logging Company--Equipment & supplies--Washington (State); Mud Bay Logging Company--Facilities--Washington (State); Thurston County (Wash.); Group portraits
Baldwin locomotives

Location

United States--Washington (State)--Thurston County

Type

image

Format

Photograph
image
11 x 14 in.
Silver gelatin, b/w
Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x512 ppi. 2003

URL

http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/clarkkinsey/id/347

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