Joe Goldston and James Vaghn Sr. at Olympic Mill
1945
Gresham, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
Black and white photo of two men (Joe Goldston and James Vaughn Sr.) in suits are standing and looking at veneer strips, likely in a building at the Olympic Mill in Gresham, with shelves containing other materials behind them. There are piles of more veneer strips on either side of them.
More about this item
- Identifier
- ghs20250090002
- Description
- Black and white photo of two men (Joe Goldston and James Vaughn Sr.) in suits are standing and looking at veneer strips, likely in a building at the Olympic Mill in Gresham, with shelves containing other materials behind them. There are piles of more veneer strips on either side of them.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
- Location
- Gresham, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
- Date
- 1945
- Subject
- Men
- Warehouses
- Mills
- Provenance
- Donated by Stephen Moore, whose wife's paternal grandfather Ben Christensen worked for the Olympic Mill in the 1940s. He had moved to Gresham from North Dakota during the Dust Bowl. The Olympic Mill was a sawmill in Gresham, a subsidiary of the Dean Company, that specialized in hardwood and softwood veneer used in making World War II aircraft components, musical instruments, and other products. It opened in 1942 on the former site of the Beaver State Manufacturing Company with James Vaughn, Sr. as the general manager. It closed in 1999 and was replaced by Gresham Station Shopping Center.
- Format
- Print, Photographic
- Collection
- Business & Industry
- Item sets
- Business & Industry
