Workers at Olympic Mill
1945
Gresham, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
Black and white photo of three men packing pallets of wood veneer at the Olympic Mill. Two men are stacking strips of veneer and the third is strapping another stack to a pallet. The picture is taken inside a warehouse or factory. Stamp on back for Photo-Art Commercial Studios.
More about this item
- Identifier
- ghs20250090004
- Description
- Black and white photo of three men packing pallets of wood veneer at the Olympic Mill. Two men are stacking strips of veneer and the third is strapping another stack to a pallet. The picture is taken inside a warehouse or factory. Stamp on back for Photo-Art Commercial Studios.
- 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
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