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Timber

Japanese immigrants (Issei) replaced Chinese workers after the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act went into effect. Laborers were recruited by contracting companies to cut timber and work in sawmills. In rare instances, Issei women joined their husbands, living among the other workers in segregated shantytowns.

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Man poses with felled tree (ddr-densho-359-716)
img Man poses with felled tree (ddr-densho-359-716)
Caption in album is written in Japanese. Joe Kawamoto
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-359-716/
Cleared forest path (ddr-densho-359-1434)
img Cleared forest path (ddr-densho-359-1434)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-359-1434/
Two women pose with felled tree (ddr-densho-359-1435)
img Two women pose with felled tree (ddr-densho-359-1435)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-359-1435/
Men, woman, and child with piles of cleared lumber (ddr-densho-255-60)
img Men, woman, and child with piles of cleared lumber (ddr-densho-255-60)
Japanese American men, woman, and child with piles of lumber. Japanese caption on reverse.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-255-60/
Woodland being cleared (ddr-densho-255-104)
img Woodland being cleared (ddr-densho-255-104)
Seven workers clearing woodland.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-255-104/
Workers on cleared woodland (ddr-densho-255-105)
img Workers on cleared woodland (ddr-densho-255-105)
Men working in cleared woodland.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-255-105/
Two men with lumber (ddr-densho-255-171)
img Two men with lumber (ddr-densho-255-171)
Two men in front of a cleared area with cut lumber.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-255-171/
Men in cleared woodland (ddr-densho-255-59)
img Men in cleared woodland (ddr-densho-255-59)
Three men standing in a cleared woodland area by piles of lumber. Japanese caption on reverse.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-255-59/
Men in cleared woodland (ddr-densho-255-61)
img Men in cleared woodland (ddr-densho-255-61)
Three men standing in a cleared woodland area by piles of lumber. Japanese caption on reverse.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-255-61/
A group of men (ddr-densho-353-48)
img A group of men (ddr-densho-353-48)
Workers on bunkhouse steps.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-353-48/
A group in front of a house (ddr-densho-353-33)
img A group in front of a house (ddr-densho-353-33)
Shoichiro Katsuno at Pontiac (now the Windermere/Sand Point area) Written on back: "House built by Mr. Katsuno c.1913. Paid only for glass, nails, stovepipe, all the wood was free for clearing the land, knew how to make cedar shakes from work in sawmill earlier."
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-353-33/
A man stands on logs being floated to the sawmill (ddr-densho-353-156)
img A man stands on logs being floated to the sawmill (ddr-densho-353-156)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-353-156/
Masahachi Nakata's sawmill (ddr-densho-353-154)
img Masahachi Nakata's sawmill (ddr-densho-353-154)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-353-154/
Sawmill workers (ddr-densho-353-23)
img Sawmill workers (ddr-densho-353-23)
Mukilteo sawmill. Caption in album: "Workers in front of bunkhouses."
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-353-23/
Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Co. panoramic view (ddr-densho-353-46)
img Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Co. panoramic view (ddr-densho-353-46)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-353-46/
Workers at a log conveyor (ddr-densho-353-47)
img Workers at a log conveyor (ddr-densho-353-47)
Photo taken in Wallace, WA, near the startup.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-353-47/
A portrait of sawmill workers (ddr-densho-353-34)
img A portrait of sawmill workers (ddr-densho-353-34)
Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Co. sawmill workers.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-353-34/
A group of men with motorcycles (ddr-densho-353-419)
img A group of men with motorcycles (ddr-densho-353-419)
Photo taken at the Kenneton Sawmill.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-353-419/
Two men cutting down a tree (ddr-densho-353-153)
img Two men cutting down a tree (ddr-densho-353-153)
Note on the back: "Cutting timber with a long saw." Near the Columbia River.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-353-153/
Photos of lumber mill workers (ddr-densho-353-36)
img Photos of lumber mill workers (ddr-densho-353-36)
Captioned: "Lumber mill owned by S. Tsukata."
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-353-36/
A group of sawmill workers (ddr-densho-353-45)
img A group of sawmill workers (ddr-densho-353-45)
Captioned: "An integrated sawmill crew."
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-353-45/
Group of men, women, and children (ddr-densho-353-21)
img Group of men, women, and children (ddr-densho-353-21)
Sawmill workers in Port Blakely. Caption in album: "The sawmill drew many workers."
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-353-21/
Skeur's Mill from the west side of the lake (ddr-densho-353-44)
img Skeur's Mill from the west side of the lake (ddr-densho-353-44)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-353-44/
Men and women in front of sawmill (ddr-densho-353-22)
img Men and women in front of sawmill (ddr-densho-353-22)
Mukilteo sawmill. Caption in album: "Japanese sawmill workers greet a new bride."
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-353-22/
A cigar shaped raft on the Columbia River (ddr-densho-353-155)
img A cigar shaped raft on the Columbia River (ddr-densho-353-155)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-353-155/
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