Snapshots of the Past

[A Pine woods mill, Keystone Lumber Company] – Antique Print

[A Pine woods mill, Keystone Lumber Company], [1901 or 1902] — historic photograph
[A Pine woods mill, Keystone Lumber Company], [1901 or 1902]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

Description

This rare historic photograph captures [A Pine woods mill, Keystone Lumber Company] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

Order it framed and ready to hang, or unframed to match a frame you already love. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.

[A Pine woods mill, Keystone Lumber Company]

Order a print

Secure checkout · SSL encryptedPowered by Stripe and PayPal

Free shipping in the lower 48 states. The checkout page shows the picture, size and price before you pay.

Sign up for our newsletter

Sent securely. No purchase needed. Unsubscribe anytime.

Ask about licensing or this print

The record names this as a view of the Keystone Lumber Company's pine woods mill, a reminder of how much of the American West's early economy depended on cutting timber and milling it on site. The picture is an 8 by 10 inch glass negative, dated 1901 or 1902, from the Detroit Publishing Company, which sold views of towns, industry and scenery to a national market in those years. Its donation to the State Historical Society of Colorado in 1949 points to a Colorado connection. Mill scenes like this one show the stacked lumber, machinery and workers that the company's commercial photographers were hired to record.

Created / published[1901 or 1902]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.Photographic prints Reproductions.
NotesTitle from jacket. G" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043160. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70146

More from the Detroit Publishing Company collection

Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.

Related pictures

[Northern Manufacturing Company automobile, rear-quarter view][Northern Manufacturing Company automobile, rear-quarter view][Northern Manufacturing Company touring car, three-quarter view][Northern Manufacturing Company touring car, three-quarter view][Glazier Stove Company, brass foundry, Chelsea, Mich.][Glazier Stove Company, brass foundry, Chelsea, Mich.][Glazier Stove Company, director's room, Chelsea, Mich.][Glazier Stove Company, director's room, Chelsea, Mich.][Glazier Stove Company, boiler room, Chelsea, Mich.][Glazier Stove Company, boiler room, Chelsea, Mich.][Glazier Stove Company, lamp stove dept., Chelsea, Mich.][Glazier Stove Company, lamp stove dept., Chelsea, Mich.]