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Kinsey Brothers Logging Photography Collection (117198)

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Paper Start Price:1,500.00 USD Estimated At:3,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD
Kinsey Brothers Logging Photography Collection  (117198)
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1,600.00USD+ (352.00) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2020 Jun 25 @ 12:08UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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An incredible collection of contact prints, measuring 11"x 14" from the camera lens of Darius Kinsey

Often using an 11x14 Eastman View camera, he photographed the entire logging process: early mornings in logging camps; the fallers posed with their axes, cross-cut saws and springboards; buckers crosscutting fallen timber; loading operations with steam donkey engines and ginpoles; logging railroads hauling their loads to Northwest mills. His images form a visual history of logging: from skid road logging with horses and sleds at the turn of the century to Diamond-T logging trucks and highlead logging operations in the 1920s. Not all his images document of logging activities. Some of his more poetic images of forest scenes are entitled: "Sunlight and shadows of towering fir trees", and, "Sunbeams filtering through shadow draped trees to the ground". There are 156 photographs in the collection and a coffee table book, showing the photo collection.
A note from the consignor: These are 11 X 14 in. contact prints made directly from the glass plate negatives from the University of Washington by the photographer and collector, Bert Kellogg. Bert lived in Port Angeles, Wa. and at one time amassed over 80,000 images of Washington State history. These contact prints, if you look closely, are very detailed and crisp and I have cherished these for years. The book Kinsey Photographer will help in describing the Kinsey brothers. Darius and Clark Kinsey had a small photo studio based in Sedro-Wooley Washington and began taking pictures of the locomotives, steam donkeys and logging crews to sell to the men in the camps. Either Darius or Clark (Darius worked Seattle area north and Clark worked south into California) would come into these itinerant camps, take pictures of the crews, make a list of who wanted copies and send them the picture, usually with them in it. The Kinseys charged sixty cents which were a pretty spendy given most of these loggers only made a dollar a day. These pictures for sale are contact prints from the original glass plate negatives from the University of Washington made by Bert Kellogg in the early 1960's.
All photos are in very good condition as is the publication. See photos for more details on condition.

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State: Washington
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Date: 1900's