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Logging and Timber Industry

Portrait of Wilhelm Böing, Sr.
Böing, Wilhelm Sr. Portrait

Portrait of Wilhelm Böing, Sr.

Portrait of Frederick C. A. Denkmann, n.d.
Denkmann, Frederick C. A. Portrait, n.d.

Born in Prussia in 1822, Frederick C. A. Denkmann immigrated to the United States in 1849 and settled in Pennsylvania.…

James J. Hill (left), 1911
Hill, James J., 1911

Weyerhaeuser’s neighbor on Summit Hill Road in St. Paul was James J. Hill, the director of the Northern Pacific Railroad…

Weyerhaeuser Company Mill at Everett, Washington, ca. 1900
Weyerhaeuser Company Mill at Everett, Washington, ca. 1900

At the turn of the century, Weyerhaeuser became one of the first lumber companies to push into the Pacific Northwest.…

Weyerhaeuser Timber Company camp no. 4, Vail, n.d.
Weyerhaeuser Timber Company camp no. 4, Vail, n.d.

Fallers with large tree, Weyerhaeuser Timber Company camp no. 4, Vail, n.d. Clark Kinsey, photographer. Frederick Weyerhaeuser, an émigré from…

Weyerhaeuser Tree Farm in Washington State, n.d.
Weyerhaeuser Tree Farm in Washington State, n.d.

In the first half of the twentieth century, the Weyerhaeuser Company took steps to make lumber production sustainable for future…

Portrait of Frederick Weyerhaeuser, n.d.
Weyerhaeuser, Frederick Portrait, n.d.

Portrait of first-generation German-American lumber magnate Frederick Weyerhaeuser in American lumbermen: the personal history and public and business achievements of…

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