File:Shingle mill crew and bundles of shingles, Saginaw Timber Company, ca 1923 (KINSEY 517).jpeg
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English: Shingle mill crew and bundles of shingles, Saginaw Timber Company, ca. 1923 ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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creator QS:P170,Q28549748 |
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English: Shingle mill crew and bundles of shingles, Saginaw Timber Company, ca. 1923 |
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English: Caption on image: Shingle Mill, Saginaw, Wash. No. 80
PH Coll 516.3100 Saginaw is an area on the Chehalis River three miles southeast of Elma in southeast Grays Harbor County. The name is for Saginaw Timber Company of Aberdeen, which used the area as headquarters of its logging operations. The company reportedly originated in Saginaw, Michigan. The "shingle weavers," as they were called, depended for their livelihood on the dexterity of their hands. They juggled the freshly sliced shingles which fell from the flashing blades of the saws in a manual ballet which the director of a symphony might have envied. They caught the pungent cedar boards in the air, flipped them from one hand to the other and "wove" them into finished bundles ready for shipment. A journeyman shingle weaver could handle 30,000 singles in a ten hour shift. Each time - 30,000 times a day - when he reached for one of those flying pieces of cedar, he gambled the reflexes of eye and muscle against the instant amputation of his fingers or his hand. [Source: Prouty, Andrew Mason. More Deadly Than War: Pacific Coast Logging, 1827-1981. New York; London: Garland Publishing, Inc. 1985.]
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Depicted place | Saginaw, Michigan | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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circa 1923 date QS:P571,+1923-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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English: Silver gelatin, b/w |
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height: 11 in (27.9 cm); width: 14 in (35.5 cm) dimensions QS:P2048,11U218593 dimensions QS:P2049,14U218593 |
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institution QS:P195,Q219563 |
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Order Number InfoField | CKK0557 |
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