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[Southern Pine Lumber Company Planing Mill - General View]

Description: 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.
Date: 1903
Creator: American Lumberman
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[Southern Pine Lumber Company Planing Mill Interior and Workers]

Description: 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.
Date: 1903
Creator: American Lumberman
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[Southern Pine Lumber Company Planing Mill Interior and Workers - 2]

Description: 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.
Date: 1903
Creator: American Lumberman
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Southern Pine Lumber Company Sawmill Aerial View]

Description: 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 Jan… more
Date: 1903
Creator: American Lumberman
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Southern Pine Lumber Company Sawmill Interior]

Description: 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 Septembe… more
Date: 1903
Creator: American Lumberman
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Southern Pine Lumber Company Sawmill view from the Mill Pond]

Description: 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 … more
Date: 1903
Creator: American Lumberman
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[Star Hotel]

Description: Photograph of the Star Hotel in Diboll, Texas. The hotel was built by 1903 and generally accommodated office personnel and traveling salesmen. It is where Southern Pine Lumber Company founder T. L. L. Temple stayed when visiting Diboll from Texarkana, Arkansas prior to the company library being built adjacent to the commissary circa 1908. The Star Hotel was remembered for its large dining room which fed up to thirty people at one time. The closure date is unknown but by 1939 the building ha… more
Date: 1903
Creator: American Lumberman
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Texas South-Eastern Railroad Engine 3]

Description: Photograph of Texas South-Eastern Railroad engine 3. Note the split wood fuel in the tender and the brakemen on the wooden car roofs. 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.
Date: 1903
Creator: American Lumberman
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph

[Texas South-Eastern Railroad Engine 3 at the Southern Pine Lumber Company Mill Pond]

Description: 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.
Date: 1903
Creator: American Lumberman
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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