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English: Barge loaded with treated timbers at St. Helens Creosoting Company, Portland, Oregon, circa 1920s   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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English: Barge loaded with treated timbers at St. Helens Creosoting Company, Portland, Oregon, circa 1920s
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Caption on page: Picture #16 shows a barge load of treated timbers, all framed and bored before treatment, for a large saw mill. These timbers were erected on the job without additional cutting or fitting, thereby obtaining the fullest benefit from the preservative treatment. PH Coll 430.C28b

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): Barges--Oregon--Portland; Railroad ties--Oregon--Portland; St. Helens Creosoting Company
Depicted place Portland, Oregon
Date circa 1925
date QS:P571,+1925-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
institution QS:P195,Q219563
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University of Washington: Special Collections
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1656
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English: Industries and Occupations Photographs Collection
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.
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