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[Southern Pine Lumber Company Boilers]

Photograph of a Southern Pine Lumber Company boiler room also showing an employee.

Date: 1903

Creator: American Lumberman

[Southern Pine Lumber Company Machine Shop]

Photograph of the Southern Pine Lumber Company machine shop where steam locomotives were maintained. A locomotive is shown inside the shop.

Date: 1903

Creator: American Lumberman

Item Type: Photograph

[Southern Pine Lumber Company Boilers - 2]

Photograph of the interior of a Southern Pine Lumber Company boiler room.

Date: 1903

Creator: American Lumberman

Item Type: Photograph

[Southern Pine Lumber Company Mill Ponder Workers at the Bottom of the "Endless Chain"]

Photograph of three Southern Pine Lumber Company mill pond workers guiding and loading logs onto the endless chain at the mill pond, where logs were pulled by the chain into the saw mill.

Date: 1903

Creator: American Lumberman

Item Type: Photograph

[Southern Pine Lumber Company Sawmill view from the Mill Pond]

Photograph of the Southern Pine Lumber Company sawmill from the mill pond. The photograph shows the endless chain extending from the mill into the pond, and the angled dock from which logs were dumped into the pond off of rail cars. Construction for this mill began on March 1, 1903, and the mill became operational on June 12 of the same year. The mill was powered by a 500 horse powered Filer & Stowell 24x40 inch Corliss steam engine, producing 250,000 board feet daily as well as 60,000 feet … more

Date: 1903

Creator: American Lumberman

Item Type: Photograph

[Logs being unloaded into the Mill Pond]

Photograph of timber logs being unloaded from log cars into the Southern Pine Lumber Company mill pond. This view is looking outward from the sawmill.

Date: 1903

Creator: American Lumberman

Item Type: Photograph

[Texas South-Eastern Railroad Engine 3 at the Southern Pine Lumber Company Mill Pond]

Photograph of Texas South-Eastern Railroad engine 3 ready to unload logs into the Southern Pine Lumber Company mill pond. The photograph shows how mill pond workers would release the chained logs using poles. The TSE railroad was founded in 1900 by the same owners of Southern Pine Lumber Company and served the company's logging operations. It also provided passenger service from Diboll to Lufkin until 1942.

Date: 1903

Creator: American Lumberman

Item Type: Photograph

[Logs in the Southern Pine Lumber Company Mill Pond]

Photograph of logs in the Southern Pine Lumber Company mill pond.

Date: 1903

Creator: American Lumberman

Item Type: Photograph

[Southern Pine Lumber Company Sawmill Timber Dock]

Photograph of the Southern Pine Lumber Company sawmill timber dock.

Date: 1903

Creator: American Lumberman

Item Type: Photograph

[Log falling into the Southern Pine Lumber Company Mill Pond]

Photograph of a log splashing into the Southern Pine Lumber Company mill pond.

Date: 1903

Creator: American Lumberman

Item Type: Photograph

[Southern Pine Lumber Company Mill Pond Workers]

Photograph of three Southern Pine Lumber Company mill pond workers loading a log onto the "endless chain" to be dragged into the sawmill.

Date: 1903

Creator: American Lumberman

Item Type: Photograph

[Burning Wood Waste Pile]

Photograph of a burning wood waste outside of the Southern Pine Lumber Company sawmill.

Date: 1903

Creator: American Lumberman

Item Type: Photograph

[Southern Pine Lumber Company Workers with Lumber Carts]

Photograph of Southern Pine Lumber Company workers with loaded lumber carts. Company housing can be seen in the background.

Date: 1903

Creator: American Lumberman

Item Type: Photograph

[Stacked Lath near the Dry Kilns]

Photograph of dried stacked lath sitting in front of the Southern Pine Lumber Company dry kilns.

Date: 1903

Creator: American Lumberman

Item Type: Photograph

[Donkey pulling a Lumber Cart]

Photograph of a donkey pulling a lumber cart with a Southern Pine Lumber Company worker.

Date: 1903

Creator: American Lumberman

Item Type: Photograph

[Star Hotel]

Photograph of the Star Hotel in Diboll, Texas. The hotel was built by 1903 and generally accommodated office personnel and traveling salesmen. It is where Southern Pine Lumber Company founder T. L. L. Temple stayed when visiting Diboll from Texarkana, Arkansas prior to the company library being built adjacent to the commissary circa 1908. The Star Hotel was remembered for its large dining room which fed up to thirty people at one time. The closure date is unknown but by 1939 the building ha… more

Date: 1903

Creator: American Lumberman

Item Type: Photograph

[Texas South-Eastern Railroad Engine 3]

Photograph of Texas South-Eastern Railroad engine 3. Note the split wood fuel in the tender and the brakemen on the wooden car roofs. The TSE railroad was founded in 1900 by the same owners of Southern Pine Lumber Company and served the company's logging operations. It also provided passenger service from Diboll to Lufkin until 1942.

Date: 1903

Creator: American Lumberman

Item Type: Photograph

[Texas South-Eastern Railroad Engines 1, 2, and 3]

Photograph of Texas South-Eastern Railroad engines 1, 2 and 3. The TSE railroad was founded in 1900 by the same owners of Southern Pine Lumber Company and served the company's logging operations. It also provided passenger service from Diboll to Lufkin until 1942.

Date: 1903

Creator: American Lumberman

Item Type: Photograph

[Emmit Massingill, Scaler, Southern Pine Lumber Company]

Photograph of Emmit Massingill, Southern Pine Lumber Company scaler. Cut timber is shown in the background.

Date: 1903

Creator: American Lumberman

Item Type: Photograph

[Southern Pine Lumber Company Slip Tongue Log Skidder and Team]

Photograph of a high-wheeled, slip-tongue log skidder with its teams and driver. The driver would straddle the cart over felled logs, where dangling tongs would be positioned to raise the end of a log off the ground when the mules pulled the tongue forward, allowing the log to "skid" along under the cart's rolling wheels.

Date: 1903

Creator: American Lumberman

Item Type: Photograph

[Southern Pine Lumber Company Log Skidding Teams]

Photograph of Southern Pine Lumber Company log skidding teams and slip tongue log skidders, and cut timber in the foreground.

Date: 1903

Creator: American Lumberman

Item Type: Photograph

[Southern Pine Lumber Company Mules]

Photograph of two large Southern Pine Lumber Company mules used in logging, along with a company employee, who are likely a part of a skidder team. The skidder is not shown.

Date: 1903

Creator: American Lumberman

Item Type: Photograph

[Cut Timber on the Right of Way]

Photograph of cut timber along the right of way awaiting transportation to the Southern Pine Lumber Company sawmill.

Date: 1903

Creator: American Lumberman

Item Type: Photograph

[Texas South-Eastern Railroad Track Laying Crew]

Photograph of a Texas South-Eastern Railroad track crew laying the cross ties for a new right of way through the woods to access Southern Pine Lumber Company timber.

Date: 1903

Creator: American Lumberman

Item Type: Photograph

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[Southern Pine Lumber Company Boilers]

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[Southern Pine Lumber Company Boilers - 2]

[Southern Pine Lumber Company Mill Ponder Workers at the Bottom of the "Endless Chain"]

[Southern Pine Lumber Company Sawmill view from the Mill Pond]

[Logs being unloaded into the Mill Pond]

[Texas South-Eastern Railroad Engine 3 at the Southern Pine Lumber Company Mill Pond]

[Logs in the Southern Pine Lumber Company Mill Pond]

[Southern Pine Lumber Company Sawmill Timber Dock]

[Log falling into the Southern Pine Lumber Company Mill Pond]

[Southern Pine Lumber Company Mill Pond Workers]

[Burning Wood Waste Pile]

[Southern Pine Lumber Company Workers with Lumber Carts]

[Stacked Lath near the Dry Kilns]

[Donkey pulling a Lumber Cart]

[Star Hotel]

[Texas South-Eastern Railroad Engine 3]

[Texas South-Eastern Railroad Engines 1, 2, and 3]

[Emmit Massingill, Scaler, Southern Pine Lumber Company]

[Southern Pine Lumber Company Slip Tongue Log Skidder and Team]

[Southern Pine Lumber Company Log Skidding Teams]

[Southern Pine Lumber Company Mules]

[Cut Timber on the Right of Way]

[Texas South-Eastern Railroad Track Laying Crew]