"12188. Robinson Manufacturing Company. Everett, Wash." showing the company's own deep-water shipping pier, as seen from a high vantage point; unused color postcard from The Acmegraph Co., back paper starting to brown evenly with age, soft corners. Circa 1908 - 1910, during which time they manufactured finished doors & custom doors using Douglas fir as their prime material. $10.00 wil NEW / NOUVEAU / NEU

    "150. GIANT FIR. ONE OF WASHINGTON'S BIG TREES" including 3 lumberjacks, color postcard from J. L. Robbins Co., mailed 1924 at Spokane, very lightly toned back, minor corner wear. $5.00 wl*

    "1648 / Interior Forestry / Building // The J. K. Gill Co. / Portland, Ore." color postcard with undivided back, 2 small corner creases, noticeable corner & edge wear, short light scrape near the top left front corner, mild yellowing of the paper due to age. Sold but still available for scholarly study & research as an enlarged (about 771% of original print area) & enhanced 200-dpi scan in .jpg or .tif format. $2.00 eoil

    "177. A LOG BOOM READY FOR THE MILL, WASHINGTON. A-15857" white-border era post card from Leland Lund, unused, soft corners, toned back. $3.00 wl*. Another, corner & edge wear, black color misregistered a bit high on front. $2.75 wl.

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    "205. SNAKING BIG LOGS FROM THE MOUNTAINS. WASHINGTON. 29613" white-border era postcard from Leland Lund, unused, trivial wear at 2 corners, lightly toned back. $3.00 wl*

    "4081 WASHINGTON 'TOOTH PICKS', FROM A WASHINGTON FOREST  29989" showing 3 large rough-shaped logs on a rail car, white-border era post card from Wesley Andrews Company, unused, tiny spot on bottom front edge, otherwise quite fresh. $3.75 wl. Same view but C. T. Johnston Company gets the credit on the back, minor corner wear & not as fresh. $3.00 wl. Both for $6.50. wl

    "510 HANDLING LUMBER WITH ELECTRICITY GRAYS HARBOR, WN." sepia-tone real photo post card mailed 1925 from Aberdeen. An interesting work scene: men have traveled on bicycles (parked nearby) to meet a truck, whose green lumber is hauled up by a specialized device to the top of a stack for drying. The bicycles & the photograph of the stacks bracing each other convey a good feel for the extent of such operations, which were to peak just a couple of years later. $50.00 wl NEW / NOUVEAU / NEU

    "A LOG DRIVE ON THE CONNECTICUT RIVER AT WIDER VT." unused white-border era color postcard published by Green Mountain Card Co. $3.25 (vl+)

"A MOUNTAIN OF WOOD, MILLION DOLLAR LOG PILE, BERLIN, N.H." including part of a crane, white-border era post card from Atkinson News, mailed 1924 at Shelburne, 2 small corner creases, light toning at one back corner, ink smear on back, internal crease. $3.25 nl

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    "Bird's-Eye View of Aberdeen, Wash." including masted ships & the lumber yards they serviced,  unused color post card numbered 693, minor corner wear, lightly toned back. $9.50 wl

"Chaudiere Falls. / Ottawa" with a long bridge in the distance, signed Charles F. Flower art on an unused Tuck Oilette postcard 2242, very faint album impressions at the corners, good edges. Back comments that the falls powered many lumber mills. $5.00 otlwa& NEW / NOUVEAU / NEU

    "CROSSETT WATZEK GATES INDUSTRIES / Modern Fan Circulating Dry Kilns, for Correct Seasoning of 'Womanized' Products / AMERICAN LUMBER & TREATING COMPANY PLANT -- FORDYCE, ARKANSAS" and the railroad siding there, color postcard mailed 1950 from Princeton Arkansas, trivial corner & edge wear, unusual subject matter. $7.50 ail%

CUMMER LUMBER COMPANY. Black & white 4"x7" glossy photo of its steam locomotive #21 Brooks 2-6-0 and tender in July 1916. Ex Otter Creek & Southwestern #16; E SI&E #654; to SI&E #898; to King Lumber Company #4. Good focus & composition. $5.00 rl

"Early-Day Logging in Montana, while not much kinder / to the environment than current methods, was at least / slower..." unused sepia-tone continental post card reproduction. $1.25 ml

    "Fir logs, ready for shipment from Forests / of Washington" loaded on railcars with several men nearby for scale, black & white postcard, brownish paper, published by The Puget Sound News Company, made in Germany, light album marks on back, lightly toned front, trivial edge wear. $9.00 wl

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    "Flottage Dubois Sur Le Saguenay, Chicoutimi, Que." black & white post card mailed there 1919, showing men with boats & small rafts working logs down the river, exceptionally interesting. 2 badly creased corners. $5.00 ql

"From LACEY LUMBER CO., / CARRIERE, MISS." unused sepia-tone Velox real photo postcard with the violet hand-stamp of the company providing the caption, good focus & interesting composition, minor corner rounding & small corner crease nowhere near the image. Shows a high stack of their freshly-milled ('green' is the trade term) and as-yet-unsaleable yellow pine lumber, cleverly positioned in a cross-hatched arrangement so as to air it dry & still preserve the straightness of the cuts. The arrangement was a very labor-intensive process involving Negro workers, 2 of whom are shown--one at the top, the other on the stairs besides where he would hand up (or down) the boards. [The spacing between layers would be less in later times, and a modern mill would use a kiln to cut this several-month airing process into a matter of weeks.] By photographing the pile (and a bit of another pile to the right of it) and placing their name beneath the image, the company was trying to show the onlooker how they took pains to insure the dryness, straightness, strength & regularity of their milled stock. Lacey Lumber was one of the smallest mills to open in the county after the building of the New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad in the 1880's. Undoubtedly unique and, because the photo tells us so much, it is quite simply the best Mississippi post card we have ever seen in anyone's stock. Sold but still available for scholarly study & research as an enlarged (about 277% of original area) & enhanced 120-dpi scan in .jpg or .tif format. $1.75 mlb

GEORGIA LUMBER & TURPENTINE COMPANY. Black & white 5"x7" glossy photo of its steam locomotive #24 Danforth-Cooke 4-4-0 & tender in September 1911. Ex SI&E #521. Matte finish, good focus & contrast. $3.00 rl

"GIANT FIR LOG. This 13,000 board feet specimen is / typical of the giants still found..." on a truck with 3 men standing nearby for scale; chrome post card mailed at North Bend in 1962, multiple tiny creases at one corner. $1.50 wl

    "I. R. KRUM, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in / Lumber, Grain, Coal, Salt, Doors, Sash and Blinds /  Bloomington, Ill." 1874 advertising on government postal card, toning along right front edge & left back edge. $18.00 ialg

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"K-319 / A NORTHWEST SAWMILL AND LOG POND / Photo by L. L. Perkins" unused chrome postcard from Smith-Western Inc., fairly fresh. $1.25 il

    "Logging in Kentucky" showing many log rafts on a river, black & white post card with dark red caption, sample from The Art Manufacturing Company of Zanesville, Ohio, quoting rates. Very interesting; lightly toned back, trivial corner wear. $5.00 kls

     "Log Raft, ready for Ocean Towing, Columbia River, Oregon." unused sepia-tone postcard with white borders, toning & a couple of small surface abrasions on front, long corner crease through darker part of image, corner wear & rounding, back toned. As is. $2.50 ol

"Machias River log / drive, Maine" well done home-made (and, hence, unique) postcard mailed 1963, lightly toned front. $1.75 (ml) NEW / NOUVEAU / NEU

    Monson Maine real photo lumber industry work scene with at least a dozen men, 3 huts / shacks, timber, two large cranes, by rail tracks, with 2 tracks of narrower gauge leading to them & a large house or office on the hill. Post card mailed there 1909 to Dover Maine. Slight rounding to lower right corner, a couple of paper bends connecting to the bottom edge, and very light toning near the edges on the back $25.00 (ml)

"OCMULGEE RIVER LUMBER CO." 5x8 black & white glossy photo with a side view of the company's 4-4-0 steam locomotive & tender as it appeared March 29 1907 at Lumber City Georgia. Copyrighted reprint from the original negative, handwritten annotation on back with locomotive's history. $2.75 rgl

"OLD LOCOMOTIVE, RELIC OF LOGGING DAYS, CLINCH PARK, TRAVERSE CITY, MICH.--26 / © ORSON W. PECK", unused linen postcard with fresh appearance. $3.00 ml

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"On the Mississippi, Steamer Glenmont and / Bow Boat with Log Raft in Tow. La Crosse, Wis." color post card, circa 1915, unused, minor corner & edge wear, couple small scrapes on back. Ship was registered in 1885 to Van Sant & Musser Transportation Company. $7.50 s(v)lw

    "PIER NORTHERN MAINE R. R. / STOCKTON SPRINGS" showing a lumbering scene in black & white, unused post card with undivided back, toning both sides, mild rounding of the corners. $9.00 m(s)rl NEW / NOUVEAU / NEU

PINE MOUNTAIN GRANITE COMPANY. Black & white 4"x6" glossy photo of its steam locomotive #6 Baldwin 44502 2-6-0 at Lithonia Georgia in June 1936, good composition, image a bit too bright. Ex Cherry River Boom & Lumber #9; ex GC&L 697. $3.00 rgl. Same view in larger black & white 5"x8" glossy photo, but improved detail due to better contrast. $3.75 rgl

    "Pozdrav z Melnícka" with a river scene including rafts carrying lumber, color postcard mailed there 1903 to Reichstadt (sending & receiving cancels mostly clear, 5-heller Austrian stamp is tied), brownish paper on back, wear at 3 corners not into image. $8.00 cl-c

R. L. DOWLING SHORTLINE. Black & white 3.5"x6.5" glossy photo of its steam locomotive #57 Grant 4-4-0 & tender at Live Oak Florida in 1905, good focus & contrast. Short, but serving sawmills it had much lumber-related traffic. $5.00 rlf NEW / NOUVEAU / NEU

"Sentinel Timber Tractor No. 8777, / 'Old Bill' built 1933 /  Colour Photograph by Colin L. Caddy" unused continental post card, tiny corner bend. $1.00 l

    SILVER GRIZZLY TIMBER COMPANY, LIMITED (Canada). Continental black-and-white photograph showing its DeHavilland Canada DHC-2 C-FICL docked, good composition & focus, contrast is low. The company operates in the northwest part of British Columbia. Rare. $5.00 alb

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    SMITH GARBUTT LUMBER COMPANY. 5"x8" black & white photograph of its 4-4-0 Cooke steam locomotive & tender at Lyons Georgia in 1906, good focus & composition, contrast just a bit low. $5.00 rgl

TITUSVILLE LUMBER COMPANY. Black & white 4"x8" glossy photo of its steam locomotive #592 Baldwin 6260 2-6-0; ex WM 205; 3x SI&E 592. Exemplary composition & focus & contrast. Rare. $5.00 rl

    "Train of logs for the Potlatch Lumber Co., Potlatch, Idaho. / 105 cars, one mile length, 1,100,000 feet" unused color post card with light browning of the back paper, circa 1908-1910, mild corner wear. $9.00 il%

    "Vermland. Edsvalla." showing a place where logs are processed, color post card from Axel Eliassons (No. 4166), unused, brownish paper on back, light toning near back corners, considerable corner & edge wear. $6.00 sl

"W7HKE" Roseburg Oregon QSL postcard mailed there JAN 13 1972 (clear cancel but no stamp, so violet POSTAGE DUE 8¢ handstamp at Trenton Ohio), logging truck design, trace of cancel ink on front . Sent by Reuben A. Stoltenberg. $2.00 ol-o

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    "WASHINGTON" with interesting map of the state & art depicting lumbering, corner wear & rounding, 1889 copyright (when its population was about 75,000). Sold but still available for scholarly study & research as an enlarged (almost 2x original area) 100-dpi scan in .jpg or .tif format. $1.50 (awlm)+%^

WILSON CYPRESS COMPANY. Black & white 3.5"x7" gloss photo of its steam locomotive #3 Baldwin 41130 2-6-2, good composition but is low & image too bright to capture all the detail, at Philadelphia 1914. The company operated a very large cypress sawmill at Palatka Florida from 1891 - 1944, and shipped its product widely. $5.00 rlf%

WILSON LUMBER COMPANY. Black & white 5"x6.5" glossy photograph of its steam locomotive #2 Baldwin 41927 2-6-2 & its tender, at Philadelphia in 1915, good focus, contrast a bit high. Our internet research indicates that this was another name for the Wilson Cypress Company of Palatka Florida, but there is another Wilson Lumber Company having more extensive operations. $5.00 $5.00 rlf

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