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[Six Southern Pine Lumber Company Dry Kilns]
Photograph of six dry kilns built by the National Dry Kiln Company of Indianapolis, Indiana for the Southern Pine Lumber Company. This view is looking from the northeast. By 1907 the company had 12 kilns which held 544,400 feet of lumber.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Planing Mill Engine Room]
Photograph of the Southern Pine Lumber Company planing mill engine room taken with flashlight. The mill was powered by a 500 horsepower Corliss engine.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Sawmill 2 Engine Room]
Photograph of the Southern Pine Lumber Company sawmill 2 engine room. This is a Corliss steam engine built by Filer & Stowell.
[Manufactured Lumber Shed Exterior]
Photograph of the exterior of the Southern Pine Lumber Company manufactured lumber shed.
[Molding Shed Interior]
Photograph of the interior of the Southern Pine Lumber Company molding shed, also showing workers in the background.
[Fontaine McCullam, Southern Pine Lumber Company General Sales Manager]
Photograph of Fontaine McCullam, the Southern Pine Lumber Company general sales manager, in his Texarkana office, Arkansas, 1903.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Office Worker at Accounts Desk]
Photograph of a Southern Pine Lumber Company office worker seated at the accounts desk, Texarkana, Arkansas, 1903.
[Unidentified Building, Possibly in Texarkana, Arkansas]
Photograph of an unidentified two story building along the railroad tracks, possibly in Texarkana, Arkansas, 1903.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Commissary Interior]
Photograph of the interior of the Southern Pine Lumber Company commissary in 1903. Stocking almost everything carried by a modern "superstore" as well as such items as fiddle strings, horse collars, coffins and caskets, it was a complete shopping center and mall under one roof. It also contained doctor offices, a drug store, and the post office.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Main Office in Diboll]
Photograph of the Southern Pine Lumber Company main office building in Diboll, Texas.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Planing Mill and Loading Dock]
Photograph of the Southern Pine Lumber Company loading dock and freight cars from the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad and the St. Louis Southwestern Railway. The planing mill is seen in the background. The planing mill had a daily capacity of 250,000 board feet.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Loading Dock Workers]
Photograph of south end of the Southern Pine Lumber Company loading dock showing lumbermen pushing carts of lumber. The dressed lumber sheds are shown in the background. Also shown are cars from the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company African-American Workers Loading Lumber into Freight Cars]
Photograph of African American lumbermen loading lumber into freight cars.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Loading Dock - North End]
Photograph of a man pushing a loaded lumber cart along the north end of the loading dock next to St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company cars.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Planing Mill Interior and Workers]
Photograph of the Southern Pine Lumber Company planing mill, mill machinery, and mill workers. The planing mill was 14,000 square feet with machinery made by Hall & Brown Wood Working Machinery Company, including the inside molder, outside molder, a double sizer, one 18-inch machine, three 15-inch machines, six 9-inch machines, two resaws and two edgers. The planing mill had a capacity of 250,000 daily board feet.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Planing Mill Interior and Workers - 2]
Photograph of the Southern Pine Lumber Company planning mill, machinery, and workers. The planing mill was 14,000 square feet with machinery made by Hall & Brown Wood Working Machinery Company, including the inside molder, outside molder, a double sizer, one 18-inch machine, three 15-inch machines, six 9-inch machines, two resaws and two edgers. The planing mill had a capacity of 250,000 daily board feet.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Planing Mill - General View]
Photograph of the Southern Pine Lumber Company planning mill interior showing lumber, machinery, and an employee. The planing mill was 14,000 square feet with machinery made by Hall & Brown Wood Working Machinery Company, including the inside molder, outside molder, a double sizer, one 18-inch machine, three 15-inch machines, six 9-inch machines, two resaws and two edgers. The planing mill had a capacity of 250,000 daily board feet.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Worker at a Sawmill Steam Engine]
Photograph of a Southern Pine Lumber Company worker at a Corliss steam engine in one of the company sawmills. The engine was built by Filer & Stowell Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Self-Stoking Sawmill Boilers]
Photograph of a Southern Pine Lumber Company worker in front of company self-stoking sawmill boilers.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Sawmill Interior]
Photograph of the interior of Southern Pine Lumber Company's sawmill and various mill workers. Construction for this mill began on March 1, 1903, and the mill became operational on June 12 of the same year. The mill was powered by a 500 horse powered Filer & Stowell 24x40 inch Corliss steam engine, producing 250,000 board feet daily as well as 60,000 feet of lath. It replaced the original mill that was built in 1894. This mill was destroyed by fire on January 7, 1968 and rebuilt by September of that year.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Lath Mill]
Photograph of the interior of the Southern Pine Lumber Company lath mill with workers and nearby machinery.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Boarding House]
Photograph of the Southern Pine Lumber Company boarding house in Diboll, Texas.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Sawmill Aerial View]
Photograph of the Southern Pine Lumber Company sawmill and mill firehouse, aerial view. The mill pond is shown in the background. Construction for this mill began on March 1, 1903, and the mill became operational on June 12 of the same year. The mill was powered by a 500 horse powered Filer & Stowell 24x40 inch Corliss steam engine, producing 250,000 board feet daily as well as 60,000 feet of lath. It replaced the original mill that was built in 1894. This mill was destroyed by fire on January 7, 1968 and rebuilt by September of that year.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Planing Mill]
Photograph of the Southern Pine Lumber Company planing mill, aerial view.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Dry Kilns - Aerial]
Photograph of the Southern Pine Lumber Company dry kilns. The kilns were built by the National Dry Kiln Company of Indianapolis, Indiana. The structure consisted of six rooms 2,400 square feet each that could hold up to 300,000 feet of lumber and turn out 100,000 feet of dried stock daily.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Lumber Yard with Housing in the Background]
Photograph of the Southern Pine Lumber Company lumber yard with company housing depicted in the background.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Lumber Yard - Looking South]
Photograph of the Southern Pine Lumber Company lumber yard, showing hand stacked lumber air-drying, with employees loading and unloading lumber carts. This view is looking south.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Band Saw]
Photograph of a band saw inside the Southern Pine Lumber Company sawmill in Diboll, Texas.
[Lumber and Lath Stacks as they come from the Dry Kiln]
Photograph of lumber and lath stacks and they come from the dry kiln.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Lumber Yard]
Photograph of the Southern Pine Lumber Company lumber yard showing hand-stacked lumber drying.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Dry Shed - Aerial]
Photograph of the Southern Pine Lumber Company dry shed with stacked lumber surrounding the building. The planing mill is depicted in the background on the left.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Dry Kilns - Aerial 2]
Photograph of the Southern Pine Lumber Company dry kilns. The kilns were built by the National Dry Kiln Company of Indianapolis, Indiana. The structure consisted of six rooms 2,400 square feet each that could hold up to 300,000 feet of lumber and turn out 100,000 feet of dried stock daily.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Lumber Yard Alleyway]
Photograph of a view down an alleyway in the Southern Pine Lumber Company lumber yard. Also depicted is a worker hauling a cart of lumber. Note the primitive electric light poles. The dynamo, or electrical generator, was located in the dry kiln boiler room and used the boilers to produce power.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Dry Kilns]
Photograph of the Southern Pine Lumber Company dry kilns, also showing workers with a cart of lumber. The kilns were built by the National Dry Kiln Company of Indianapolis, Indiana. The structure consisted of six rooms 2,400 square feet each that could hold up to 300,000 feet of lumber and turn out 100,000 feet of dried stock daily.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Shed Interior]
Photograph of the interior of a Southern Pine Lumber Company shed showing stacked lumber and various workers. This could be the dry shed or the dressed lumber shed.
[Stacked Lumber near a Shed, Possibly the Dry Shed]
Photograph of a stack of lumber outside of what is possibly the Southern Pine Lumber Company dry shed.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Lumber Shed Interior - 2]
Photograph of the interior of a Southern Pine Lumber Company shed, either the dry shed or dressed lumber shed.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Office Worker at Safe]
Photograph of a Southern Pine Lumber Company office worker near two safes. This is likely in the Texarkana, Arkansas main office.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Worker with Record Books]
Photograph of a Southern Pine Lumber Company worker at a table with record books. It appears that he is placing a seal on a document or binding a book. This is likely in the Texarkana, Arkansas main office.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Saw Filer Shop]
Photograph of two Southern Pine Lumber Company workers filing circle saws in a saw filer's workshop.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Boilers]
Photograph of a Southern Pine Lumber Company boiler room also showing an employee.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Machine Shop]
Photograph of the Southern Pine Lumber Company machine shop where steam locomotives were maintained. A locomotive is shown inside the shop.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Boilers - 2]
Photograph of the interior of a Southern Pine Lumber Company boiler room.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Mill Ponder Workers at the Bottom of the "Endless Chain"]
Photograph of three Southern Pine Lumber Company mill pond workers guiding and loading logs onto the endless chain at the mill pond, where logs were pulled by the chain into the saw mill.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Sawmill view from the Mill Pond]
Photograph of the Southern Pine Lumber Company sawmill from the mill pond. The photograph shows the endless chain extending from the mill into the pond, and the angled dock from which logs were dumped into the pond off of rail cars. Construction for this mill began on March 1, 1903, and the mill became operational on June 12 of the same year. The mill was powered by a 500 horse powered Filer & Stowell 24x40 inch Corliss steam engine, producing 250,000 board feet daily as well as 60,000 feet of lath. It replaced the original mill that was built in 1894. This mill was destroyed by fire on January 7, 1968 and rebuilt by September of that year.
[Logs being unloaded into the Mill Pond]
Photograph of timber logs being unloaded from log cars into the Southern Pine Lumber Company mill pond. This view is looking outward from the sawmill.
[Texas South-Eastern Railroad Engine 3 at the Southern Pine Lumber Company Mill Pond]
Photograph of Texas South-Eastern Railroad engine 3 ready to unload logs into the Southern Pine Lumber Company mill pond. The photograph shows how mill pond workers would release the chained logs using poles. The TSE railroad was founded in 1900 by the same owners of Southern Pine Lumber Company and served the company's logging operations. It also provided passenger service from Diboll to Lufkin until 1942.
[Logs in the Southern Pine Lumber Company Mill Pond]
Photograph of logs in the Southern Pine Lumber Company mill pond.
[Southern Pine Lumber Company Sawmill Timber Dock]
Photograph of the Southern Pine Lumber Company sawmill timber dock.
[Log falling into the Southern Pine Lumber Company Mill Pond]
Photograph of a log splashing into the Southern Pine Lumber Company mill pond.
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