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[Paul39]

CONTENTdm Collection : Item Viewer (http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/clarkkinsey&CISOPTR=842&CISOBOX=1&REC=19)

[vk4]

don't know the timber looks a little small ??,

I didn't know that they still logged trees that big.

[tea lady]

No date on the pic:pi: , but its a silver gelatin print so they might not still log stuff that big. There prolly isn't any left. And the place is now a shopping mall! :doh:

[Paul39]

We still have some old growth left not in parks or preserves. Occasionally a big one is blown over and can be used for lumber.

My brother has a 100 year old house in San Francisco. The basement ceiling is covered with 1 1/4 thick clear rough cut redwood. Some boards are 16 feet long and 16 inches wide.

Old growth Redwood:

California Redwoods | AustinPost.org (http://www.austinpost.org/content/bitter-sweet-vacation)

Old growth poplar, near by:

Old-growth tulip poplar | Flickr - Photo Sharing! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/halmorgan/2462583302/)

Here is a preserve west of here that was saved from logging in the early 1900s.

joyce kilmer forest, nc - Google Search (http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1143&bih=698&q=joyce+kilmer+forest%2C+nc&gbv=2&oq=joyce+kilmer+forest%2C+nc&aq=f&aqi=&aql=1&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=1937l11413l0l11722l23l23l0l13l13l0l301l2281l0.4.5.1l10l0)

I was in the grove of sequoyas in 1973, early morning, sun streaming through light fog. Wonderful.

giant sequoias - Google Search (http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1143&bih=698&q=giant+sequoias&gbv=2&oq=sequoyas&aq=7msx&aqi=g-sx7g-msx2&aql=1&gs_sm=c&gs_upl=2590l9193l0l20608l8l8l0l2l2l0l323l1489l0.2.3.1l6l0)

[fozz]

There's a sequoia in the front garden of a house around the corner from me, been there for almost 30 years. I mentioned to the previous owners about 25 years ago if they knew just how big it would grow and their answer was "doesn't matter cos we are selling the place"

Then about 2 years ago the front door bell rang, the new owner wanted to know what I knew about his tree in the front lawn, one of the neighbours had told him what I'd told the previous owner.

Anyways, after hearing what I told him about the tree, he rang a tree doctor to find out what it would cost to remove. Cost prohibitive so that and life changes they decided to move.

I still drive past this tree most days, Its now pushing the side fence over and is over 30 feet tall, probably 2 to 3 feet across the base and appears to put on 3 to 5 feet of height each year.

I say give it another 20 years and the owner and neighbour will have a great tree to sit under during the hot summer days :)

[Optimark]

<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> TL, Clark Kinsey was quite a well known photographer and was probably famous amongst timber workers in his life.

Clark used a 11”x14” camera, so the picture you have been looking at is a contact print which may have been processed in the tent or in rented house he and his wife Mary and their children would have used onsite, so to speak. Mary was part of the business, especially the developing of film and printing the photographs, with I believe the children helping in the washing and processing, as most children do in family businesses.

Their first foray into serious photography was in the late 1890’s at the Klondike, although Clarke did mining as well, but they eventually realised photography paid better.

He had a brother Darius who was also a very well known timber photographer.

I once worked as an assistant to a Nth American photographer (in Australia) using an 11”x14” wood field camera. It was through him I learnt about Clark and Darius.

The bulk of Clark Kinsey’s photographs were taken in the 20’s and 30’s of last century, I believe he left a legacy of around 40,000 negatives, no mean feat.

Mick.

[Paul39]

Optimark,

I did not know of Clark Kinsey until your mention above. Here is a collection of his photographs:

::: Clark Kinsey Photographs Collection ::: (http://content.lib.washington.edu/clarkkinseyweb/)

Darius: http://mistercrew.com/blog/2010/07/31/the-photography-of-darius-kinsey/

http://content.lib.washington.edu/kinseyweb/index.html

I have done a lot of looking for Darius K. photos and had not seen any mention of Clark.

Add: I go back to the photo I posted and find it is from the Clark Kinsey collection. I expect when I saw Kinsey my mind filled in Darius.

Moderator, if this needs to go somewhere else feel free to move it.

[Optimark]

Paul, it is interesting to view those links, they are really big trees. As a youngster I had an uncle who was an axeman, I always thought the trees he and his mates chopped down with axes and sometimes saws, were huge.

Even allowing for me growing up and realising they weren't that big, they weren't that small either. However, after looking at the links you supplied the trees my uncle was chopping down, were miniscule by comparison.

Mick.