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English: Pacific Creosoting Company dock, Seattle, Washington, circa 1920s   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
Frank H. Nowell  (1864–1950)  wikidata:Q26202833
 
Frank H. Nowell
Alternative names
Frank Hamilton Nowell
Description American photographer
Date of birth/death 19 February 1864 Edit this at Wikidata 19 October 1950 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Portsmouth
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q26202833
Title
English: Pacific Creosoting Company dock, Seattle, Washington, circa 1920s
Description
English:

Caption on page: "Working dock: Steel cages on retort trams awaiting loading with paving blocks for treatment. Each of the eight treating cylinders is long enough to take the entire string of trams shown on the transfer table which moves to connect dock tracks with the treating cylinders. To the right are shown several charges of filing, construction timbers, ties and paving blocks." PH Coll 430.C11b

The Pacific Creosoting Company was a company founded on Bainbridge Island that treated logs with creosote as a preservative. It began operations as the Perfection Pile Preserving Company in 1904, then moved in 1905 to Eagle Harbor at Winslow in the city of Bainbridge Island. The company was taken over by Horace Chapin Henry in 1906 and renamed. After Henry died in 1928, his company and its competitor, J.M. Colman's creosote company (located in West Seattle), were combined in 1930 to form the West Coast Wood Preserving Company. In 1947, Walter Wyckoff bought out the Colman family's interest and, after joining with J.H. Baxter in 1959, renamed the company the Baxter-Wyckoff Company. In 1964, Wyckoff bought out Baxter and renamed the company the Wyckoff Company. The Eagle Harbor site was one of the largest producers of treated wood products in the United States. Treated wood from the site was used to build wharfs in San Francisco, flood control channels in Los Angeles, and the Panama Canal.

  • Subjects (LCSH): Pacific Creosoting Company; Docks--Washington (State)--Seattle
Depicted place Seattle
Date circa 1925
date QS:P571,+1925-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
University of Washington: Special Collections
Accession number
1649
Source
English: Industries and Occupations Photographs Collection
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