File:Workers at the Bemis Bag Company, Seattle, ca 1910 (MOHAI 4041).jpg

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English: Workers at the Bemis Bag Company, Seattle, ca. 1910   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
Carl Henry Moen  (1892–1983)  wikidata:Q102399164
 
Carl Henry Moen
Description American photographer
Date of birth/death 20 February 1892 Edit this at Wikidata 21 October 1983 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Seattle Seattle
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creator QS:P170,Q102399164
Title
English: Workers at the Bemis Bag Company, Seattle, ca. 1910
Description
English:

The Bemis Bag Company was founded in St. Louis, Missouri in 1858. By the early 20th century, the company operated eight bag factories in various parts of the United States, including Seattle, making burlap and cotton bags for grain, flour, feed and many other products. The company is still in the packaging business. The Bemis Bag Company factory in Seattle was located in an industrial area just south of the downtown business district. The man on the right in this photo is Carl Henry Moen. The man on the left appears to be working with a printing plate which will be used to mark the cloth bags.

Carl Henry Moen was born in Seattle in 1892 to Norwegian immigrant parents. His family moved several times as he was growing up, but settled in Ballard when he was nine years old. He helped harvest and sell the produce, milk, and poultry his family raised, and also was a messenger for Western Union, dug clams, and worked for Bemis Bag Co. Eventually he left home and began a 30-year career as a sailor, crossing the Pacific Ocean over 200 times. Moen bought his first camera in 1909; it was a 5x7 view camera that used glass plate negatives. A bedroom closet in the Moen house served as his darkroom. Most of his photos from this period are of his family and friends, showing scenes of life in Ballard in the early part of the 20th century.

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Factories--Washington (State)--Seattle; Laborers--Washington (State)--Seattle; Bemis Bro. Bag Company
  • People: Moen, Carl Henry
Depicted place
English: United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Date circa 1910
date QS:P571,+1910-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium
English: 1 glass negative: b&w
Dimensions height: 4 in (10.1 cm); width: 5 in (12.7 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,4U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,5U218593
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
Museum of History and Industry
Accession number
4041
Source
English: Museum of History and Industry
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