Inventory of the Charles Stowell Smith Photograph Album, circa 1916 – 1929
Descriptive Summary
Abstract: Charles Stowell Smith (1882-1944) worked in various fields related to forestry and the lumber industry, including the U.S. Forest Service in both California and Washington, D.C., the California White and Sugar Pine Manufacturers Association, the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, and the National Recovery Administration.
This photograph album contains 260 black-and-white photographs of lumber mills, towns, yards, and forests of various lumber companies. Some photographs are captioned with company names and location, while others are not. In addition, there are photographs of the California White and Sugar Pine Manufactures Association booth at “Own Your Own Home Expositions” in New York and Chicago, 1921. It is unknown if Smith took these photographs, but the dates suggest they are from the time period when he served as secretary of the California White and Sugar Pine Manufacturers Association from 1916-1929.
Title: Charles Stowell Smith Photograph Album, circa 1916 – 1929
Creator: Smith, Charles Stowell, 1882-1944
Repository: Forest History Society Library and Archives
Call Number: 2017-002
Language of Material: Material in English
Extent: 0.25 linear ft. (1 photograph album)
Biographical Note
Charles Stowell Smith (1882-1944) worked in various field related to forestry and the lumber industry, including the U.S. Forest Service in both California and Washington, D.C., the California White and Sugar Pine Manufacturers Association, the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, and the National Recovery Administration.
Smith graduated from the University of Michigan in 1905 with a degree in forestry. He began working for the U.S. Forest Service in 1905, first in the San Francisco office where he became chief of the Office of Forest Products in 1910. During this time, he conducted experiments in the seasoning and preservative treatment of wood to protect marine structures and supervised the Timber Testing Laboratory at the University of California. In 1916 he left the Forest Service to become secretary of the California White and Sugar Pine Manufacturers Association. He became a forest economist with the National Lumber Manufacturers Association in 1929 and their executive vice president in 1932. From 1934 to 1935 he worked for the National Recovery Administration. He returned to the U.S. Forest Service in 1937 working in the Washington Office division of State and Private Forestry. He transferred to the Office of Forest Products and Supplies in 1942 and served as an adviser to the War Production Board along with other war agencies and industrial organization until his death in 1944.
Collection Overview
This photograph album contains 260 black-and-white photographs of lumber mills, towns, yards, and forests of various lumber companies. Some photographs are captioned with company names and location, while others are not. In addition there are photographs of the California White and Sugar Pine Manufactures Association booth at “Own Your Own Home Expositions” in New York and Chicago, 1921. It is unknown if Mr. Smith took these photographs, but the dates suggest they are from the time period when he served as secretary of the California White and Sugar Pine Manufacturers Association from 1916-1929.
Collection Arrangement
- Photograph Album, circa 1916-1929
Subject Headings
- Logging — California
- Logging — Oregon
- Lumber industry — 1900-1940
- Photographs — 1910-1960
- Smith, Charles Stowell, 1882
Detailed Description of the Collection
1. Photograph Album, circa 1916-1929
Contains photographs of lumber mills, towns, yards, forests, equipment, and employees of numerous lumber companies. Also contains two photographs of California White and Sugar Pine Manufactures Association’s booth at “Own Your Own Home Exposition” in New York, 1921 and Chicago, 1921. Includes labeled photographs for the following lumber companies and locations:
- Ackley Brothers, Klamath Falls, OR
- Beckwith Peak Lumber Company
- Big Lakes Box Company, Klamath Falls, OR
- California Door Company, Caldor
- California Fruit Exchange
- Castle Crag Lumber Company, Castella, CA
- Chiloquin Lumber Company
- Clover Valley Lumber Company
- Davies-Johnson Lumber Corporation
- Drummell Lumber Company
- Ewauna Box Company, Klamath Falls, OR
- Feather River Lumber Company, Portola, CA
- Fruit Growers’ Supply Company, Hilt, CA
- Fruit Growers’ Supply Company, Susanville, CA
- F.S. Murphy Lumber Company
- J.J. Steiger, Chiloquin, OR
- Lamm Lumber Company, Modoc Point, OR
- La Moine Lumber and Trading Company, La Moine, CA
- Lassen Lumber and Box Company, Susanville, CA
- Lynons Mill El Dorado Company, near Pleasant Valley
- Madera Sugar Pine Company
- McCllum and Christy Lumber Company
- McCloud River Lumber Company, McCloud, CA
- Michigan-California, Pino Grande and Camino
- Payne and Davis Lumber Company
- Pelican Bay Lumber Company, Klamath Falls OR
- Plumas Lumber Company
- Ruggles Amador, Stanislaus National Forest
- Shaw-Bertram Lumber Company, Klamath Falls, OR
- Spanish Peak Lumber Company, Quincy, CA
- Sprague River Lumber Company, Chiloquin OR
- Standard Lumber Company
- Swayne Lumber Company, Oroville, CA
- Trio Lumber Company, near Quincy, CA
- Weed Lumber Company, Weed, CA
- West Side Lumber Company
- Yosemite
- Other unspecified locations
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Charles Stowell Smith Photograph Album, Library and Archives, Forest History Society, Durham, NC, USA.
Processing Information
Processed by Christin Lampkowski, April 2017
Encoded by Christin Lampkowski, April 2017
Support for digitization and outreach provided by the Alvin J. Huss Endowment.
