Name: Potlatch Lumber Company Photograph Collection Data
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Title	Date	Description	Subjects
First house [02]	1865	According to the description on the back of the photograph, this is the 'first house built in Potlatch area.'	homesteads; houses; log cabins (houses)
Horse-drawn cart	1896	horse-drawn cart	horses; carts; men
Oxen team pulls a log	1900	Twelve oxen hitched to pull a log out of the forest. On either side of the two teams closest to the head are downed logs. Men stand just behind the oxen team as well as on top of the log.	oxen; oxen; logging; logs (wood); loggers
A group of people in the forest	1900	A group of people stand on logs next to rail cars filled with logs as a steam engine is moving toward them in the background. Mr. L. Weyerhaeuser stands in the second line behind the woman with the white hat. Mr. Peter Musser stands fourth from the right, net to the woman.	portraits; groups of people; women
Log train [02]	1900	A long train full of logs travels in Idaho.	logs (wood); railroads (infrastructure)
Moving earth	1900	Several teams of horses move earth in a building project. On the photograph is a sign that reads 'this was earthmoving in the early 1900's before first practical crawler was building by the Holt Manufacturing company.'	horses; earth (soil)
Deary, Idaho	1900	The beginnings of Deary, Idaho. The mountain in the background is Potato Hill.	company towns
Camp kitchen [01]	1900	Men stand in an early logging camp kitchen. On the left is the stove, in the middle a island table, and to the right is another cooking area. Overhead is a lamplight.	lumber camps
Cabin	1902	The man on the porch may be William Deary.	houses; log cabins (houses); dogs
Kamiah, Idaho	1902	Looking at Kamiah, Idaho. A wooden sidewalk is running down through the middle of the picture towards the buildings.	company towns
Hotel Kamiah	1902	The building on the left of the photograph is the 'Hotel Kamiah'. Photograph looking at 'downtown' Kamiah.	company towns
Cabin near Headquarters	1905	Two men sit on a shortened wagon hitched to a team of horses. The description on the back of the photograph says this is Fred and Jay (?) Campbell.	horses; wagons (cargo vehicles)
Railroad Crew	1905	These men are the train crew that handled the first log train out of J.P.	steam locomotives; groups of people
Early Potlatch [01]	1905	Looking at residence hill. Over temporary bunk houses and office of Mr. C. N. Lerekiusou(?) who built the mill. Description taken from back of photograph.	company towns; mill towns
Rock creek Dam	1905	Description on back of photograph: 'Between two log ponds on south side of Potlatch.'	earth dams; water (inorganic material)
Excavation for log pond	1905	Men work on excavating the ground for one of the log ponds at the Potlatch mill.	construction sites; sawmills
Main street [02]	1905	The first 'Main' street in Potlatch, Idaho. The description on the back of the photograph reads 'Temporary store and boarding houses near mill pond and just south of the barn and sawmill.'	sawmills; company towns; mill towns; houses; buildings (structures)
First log train	1905	The first log train out of Jaype, Idaho. On the right hand side of the photograph are log decks waiting to be transported.	railroads (infrastructure); logs (wood); log deck
First log train crew	1905	This is the crew that handled the first log train out of Jaype, Idaho. The engine is #77.	locomotives; groups of people
Potlatch store	1905-03-19	Description from the back of the photograph reads 'This is the present Potlatch Sears Co. store (Grocery dept) in the early days. Along west wall Manning Fansler, in white sleeves behind counter. Charles McDonald in the white hat and Against the counter (moustache) is perhaps Mgr. McDonald.'	company towns; mill towns; stores
Home furnishings	1905-03-19	The home furnishings section of the store in Potlatch, Idaho. In the photograph are bed frames, mattresses, and stoves.	stores; bedframes; mattresses; stoves (heating equipment)
Potlatch school	1905-03-20	This is the first school house [in Potlatch] and was located on the ground where the old gym stands. The school was moved in town to the present High School building.	groups; women; children (people by age group); schoolhouses
Residence hill in Potlatch, Idaho [02]	1905-03-24	The view of the residence hill in Potlatch, Idaho. In the lower right hand corner, two horses pull a wagon with three men.	company towns; mill towns; horses; houses
Palouse River Valley Rural Fire Protection District	1905-05-07	Truck belonging to Potlatch Station No. 1.	fire truck
Proposed Potlatch Runway site	1905-05-10	Aerial view of the mill with the proposed location of a runway drawn in ink.	aerial photographs

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