Loading site at camp 14, Polson Logging Company, near Humptulips, n.d

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Created Date

unidentified

Description

Polson Brothers Logging Company began business in 1895 in Hoquiam. In 1903, the name was changed to Polson Logging Company. Polson was bought out by Rayonier in 1948.Humptulips was once a great logging center and is now an area of small ranches on the Humptulips River seventeen miles north of Aberdeen in west central Grays Harbor County. The name is from the Quinault word Ho-to-la-bixh, meaning "hard to pole." The phrase relates to the Humptulips River, on which Indians used to propel their canoes with poles.

Creator

Kinsey, Clark

Partner

University of Washington

Contributing Institution

University of Washington

Subjects

Logs; Steam donkeys--Washington (State); Loggers; Lumber industry--Washington (State); Polson Logging Company--People--Washington (State); Polson Logging Company--Equipment & supplies--Washington (State); Grays Harbor County (Wash.)
Spartrees--Washington (State)--Grays Harbor County

Location

United States--Washington (State)--Grays Harbor County

Type

image

Format

Photograph
image
11 x 14 in.
Silver gelatin, b/w
Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9800XL at 100 ppi in grayscale. Resized using Adobe Photoshop 8.0 so that the long dimension was either 768 pixels horizontal or 600 pixels vertical, then saved in JPEG format at quality rating 3. 2004

URL

http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/clarkkinsey/id/1779

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