Mendocino Coast, California, 1911 – Historic Photograph Print
(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 image captures Mendocino Coast, California, 1911 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: "On the Mendocino Coast"
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Mendocino Coast, California, 1911
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Mendocino Coast in 1911 was built around redwood lumber, with mills and shipping points strung along the rugged shoreline between the town of Mendocino and Fort Bragg. The coast had no sheltered deep harbor, so lumber was loaded onto schooners by chutes and lighters in open water, a slow and risky routine that shaped daily life for mill hands and sailors alike. At Fort Bragg, the Union Lumber Company ran some of the largest operations, and the railroad serving the town carried finished boards and supplies inland. Logging crews worked deeper into the coast range while cut-over hillsides spread outward from the mills. Residents would have known the region chiefly for its timber, its fishing boats, and its fog-bound bluffs.
| Created / published | 1911 |
|---|---|
| Creator | bunnell, s. u. (schuyler u.) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--California |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,185 × 701 px · prints to 17 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | "On the Mendocino Coast" |
| Reference | CA Mendocino Coast 1911 |
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