Jun 21, 2016 - Sale 2420

Sale 2420 - Lot 314

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(WASHINGTON STATE.) Kinsey, Darius; photographer. Group of 4 photographs documenting logging operations. Silver prints, each approximately 14 x 10 3/4 inches, each with Kinsey's Seattle credit or signature, copyright date, caption and inventory number in the negative; minor dampstaining and wear with a few short tears in margins, "Fir Log on the Carriage" with staining and two tears in image; three with inked stamps on verso reading "Compliments of Brooks Lumber Company, Bellingham, Washington." Various places, 1902-23

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Darius Kinsey (1869-1945) was the most important photographer of the early lumber industry in the northwest. This collection includes: "Skyline Logging in the Cascade Mountains," 1923" "Fir Log on the Carriage in a Modern Electric Mill," 1919 "On Largest of the Three Stumps over this Cedar Log is 1380 Rings, Indicating the Tree to Have Been of that Age," 1902 "Bucker Ready to Crosscut a Ten-Foot Fir," 1915.