Redwood Manufacturers Company Plant in Pittsburg, Calif., ca. 1915-ca. 1925
Redwood Manufacturers Company Plant in Pittsburg, Calif., ca. 1915-ca. 1925
BANC PIC 1905.11964-.11965 -- fALB
The Bancroft Library
University of California
Berkeley, California 1996
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- September 1996
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Container Listing
1905.11964 [Album 1]
:1 Ships unloading at wharf of Redwood Mnfrs. [Redwood Manufacturers] Co. Pittsburg, Calif.
:1a Fleet of lumber schooners at dock of Redwood Mnfrs [Redwood Manufacturers] Co. Pittsburg, Calif. Lumber was brought from mills along the coast.
:2 Dock and yard. S.S. Ravalli in foreground. Rough pile along track appears to be bundled redwood shakes.
:3 S.S. Ravalli unloading. Sling loads were assembled by hand in the hold, raised & swung over the side to the 4-wheel cars on the wharf.
:4 [Wharf scene. S.S. Ravalli unloading lumber. Redwood Manufacturers Company. Pittsburg, California.]
:5 Storage and seasoning yard. Redwood. White building, left of center, is C.A. Hooper's flour mill, later burned.
:6 Storage and seasoning yard. Note narrow-gauge industrial railroad and mule power. Redwood.
:7 Storage and seasoning yard. Lumber from ship-side drawn to yard and piled by hand. Note 2" x 4" stickers (separators) projecting beyond the ends of the boards to protect the ends against direct sun & to prevent end-checking. On #7 note slope of pile toward alley-way.
:8 Storage and seasoning yard. Lumber from ship-side drawn to yard and piled by hand. Note 2" x 4" stickers (separators) projecting beyond the ends of the boards to protect the ends against direct sun & to prevent end-checking. On #7 note slope of pile toward alley-way.
:8a [Water tank. Redwood Manufacturers Company. Pittsburg, California.]
:9 Office, water tank & planing mill.
:10 Power house, sheds, etc. Pittsburg in right rear. Dry kilns right-front.
:11 Power house. Corliss-type engines, belt-driven generators. Small dynamo -- exciter.
:12 [Engine and belt-driven generator. Interior of power house. Redwood Manufacturers Company. Pittsburg, California.]
:13 Interior of planing mill. Belt-driven machines.
:14 Planing mill and factory. Redwood door factory.
Planing mill.
:18 A corner in the tank factory. Finished staves on tracks; floor of tank in fore-ground ready for marking of the circle. Cement-block walls.
:19 The pipe factory. Assembled pipe with temporary chain-clamps at right. Pipe in machine is being wound with heavy wire. Some pipes were later rolled in hot tar; then rolled in shavings.
:20 Frame stock & moldings.
:21 Redwood doors leaning against a pile of flat-piled doors.
:22 Boxed products. Samples of redwood balusters, once a large-volume product.
:23 Porch columns & posts. Newel post.
:24a Office. In 1957 the office bldg. after being emptied was burned by fire dept. as a firemen's practice fire. Site sold to U.S. Steel Corp.in 1956 and cleared in 1957 for expansoin of the Steel Corp. plant.
:24b Power plant and fuel bin. Dry kilns. Hay warehouse. Horse barn. Columbia Steel Co. Columbia Steel Co. built about 1912-1915.
:24c Power house & fuel bin, cyclones on top. Shaving suction pipe from planing mill to fuel house.
:24d Planing mill paralleling transfer track.
:24e Power plant. D.K. = old dry kilns. In rear -- back of steel smoke stacks -- the plant of Colulmbia Steel Co. (U.S. Steel Corp.). Slanting pipes convey planing mill shavings to fuel bin at power plant boiler house.
:25 Wire-bound redwood pipe.
:27 [Composite photograph of pipe ends.]
:28 Wire-bound redwood pipe. [Photograph by R.J. Waters & Co.]
:29 Pipe factory. [Photograph by R.J. Waters & Co.]
:29a Redwood closets. [Photograph by R.J. Waters & Co.]
:30 [Wire-bound redwood pipe on freight car. Redwood Manufacturers Company. Pittsburg, California.]
:31 [Lumber schooners at loading dock. Redwood Manufacturers Company. Pittsburg, California.]
:32 [Lumber schooner at loading dock. Redwood Manufacturers Company. Pittsburg, California.]
:33 [Lumber schooners at loading dock. Redwood Manufacturers Company. Pittsburg, California.]
:34 [Lumber schooners at loading dock. Redwood Manufacturers Company. Pittsburg, California.]
1905.11965 [Album 2]
:1 Turbo-generator. Turbo-generator set. Purchased second-hand and replaced former corliss engines.
:2 Turbine.
Wood pipe. Redwood -- wire bound. About 1920.
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Wire-bound redwood pipe.
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Experimental test set-up to determine resistance of redwood stove pipe to high pressure.
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:24 [Yard scene.]
:25 [Yard scene.]
:26 [Yard scene, bundled wire.]
:27 Scrap wire.
:28 [Redwood pipe.]
Pipe test.
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Wire-bound redwood stove pipe installation.
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Redwood pipe installations.
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:38 Redwood pipe installations. C.J. Wood, president R.M. Co.
:39 [Unidentified men standing on pipe.]
:40 [Unidentified man and stack of wood.]
:41 [Wooden end piece for pipe or tank.]
:42 [Pipe or tank with end piece in place.]
:43 [Pipe installation scene.]
:44 [Piping and valve.]
:45 [Section of pipe in mud.]
:46 [Pipe in ditch.]
:47 [Factory scene.]
:48 [Pipe section.]
:49 [Factory scene.]
:50 [Pipe sections.]
:51 [Pipe section.]
:52 Old "Best" tractor forerunner, with "Holt" of Caterpillar Tractor Co. moving a tank.
Redwood tanks.
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:57 [Yard scene.]
:58 [Yard scene.]
:59 [Yard scene.]
:60 [Yard scene.]
:61 [Yard scene.]
:62 [Pipe loaded on railway cars.]
:63 [Pipe loaded on railway cars.]
:64 [Pipe being loaded by crane.]
:65 [Pipe on railway car.]
:66 [Pipe stack.]
:67 [Pipe loaded on railway car.]
:68 [Section of California Laurel.]
:69 [Section of California Laurel.]
:70 [Section of California Laurel.]
:71 Calif. Laurel.
:72 [Sections of wood.]
:73 [Sections of wood.]
:74 [Unidentified wood section.]
:75 [Yard scene.]
:76 [Yard scene.]
:77 [Yard scene.]
:78 [Yard scene.]
:79 [Yard scene, with Remco sign.]
:80 [Yard scene.]
:81 [Yard scene with snow. 1922.] [Panorama with 2 attached photographs.]
:82 Jan. 30, 1922. [Yard scene with snow.]
:83 S.S. Caspar bound for Hawaii.
:84 Lumber schooner Caspar.
:85 [Wharf scene, with S.S. Caspar.]
:86 [ S.S. Caspar.]
:87 [Wharf scene, with S.S. Caspar.]
:88 [Wharf scene, with S.S. Caspar.]
:89 [Wharf scene.]
:90 A full deck load on S.S. Caspar.
:91 [Wharf scene.]
:92 [Wharf scene.]
:93 [Lumber on railway cars.]
:94 [Lumber yard, with railway cars.]
:95 World War I Liberty Bond drive among Remco employees. [Office, with postings.]
:96 World War I Liberty Bond drive among Remco employees. [Office, with postings.]
:97 World War I Liberty Bond drive among Remco employees. [Office, with postings.]
:98 World War I Liberty Bond drive among Remco employees. [Posting on office front.]
:99 World War I Liberty Bond drive among Remco employees. [Posintgs on office front.]
:100 Model of an important product of Redwood Mnfrs. Co. (Remco), Pittsburg, Calif.
:101 Kiln dried vs. air dried tank staves. K.D. lbr. [i.e. kiln dried lumber] S. side.
:102 Kiln dried vs. air dried tank staves. A.D. lbr. [i.e. air dried lumber] S. side.
:103 Kiln dried vs. air dried tank staves. A.D. lbr. [i.e. air dried lumber] N. side.
:104 Kiln dried vs. air dried tank staves. K.D. lbr. [i.e. kiln dried lumber] N. side.
:105 [Unidentified residence.]
:106 [Construction scene, with underground wooden tank.]
:107 [Construction scene, with underground wooden tank.]
:108 [Construction scene, with underground wooden tank.]
:109 Bundled redwood siding.
:110 Redwood shingles.
:111 Novelty shingles.
:112 Redwood tank staves.
:113 Redwood tank bottom being scribed.
:114 Bannister rails -- redwood.
:115 Redwood battens.
:116 Tank stock -- redwood. Thick clear redwood.
:117 Redwood balusters.
:118 Door styles -- redwood.
:119 [Tree sections on wagon.]
:120 Silo, pipe & tank models on parade, early 1920s.
Loading crane broken through dock of Pittsburg, Calif. Santa Fe R.R. crane leased for recovery.
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Loading crane broken through dock of Pittsburg, Calif. Santa Fe R.R. crane leased for recovery.
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:142 [Wharf scene, with loading crane and lumber car.]
:143 [Wharf scene, with loading crane and ship.]
Bark Kobenhavn. Loaded for Australia Sept. 6th, 1923. 472,000' Clear Redwood lumber & door stock.
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Steamer Horda. 2,606 tons. Loaded for Australia Jan. 12th, 1925. 572,000' Clear Redwood lumber & door stock.
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Steamer Waitemata. 3,555 tons. Loaded for Australia December 20th, 1923. 487,000' Clear Redwood lumber & door stock.
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:150 Steamer Caspar. This picture is to show where rail & water meet.
:151 Steamer Wilhelm Hemsoth. 2,960 tons. Loaded for Australia October 23rd, 1924. 1,311,000' Clear Redwood lumber & door stock.
:152 [Lumber yard at wharf.]
:153 [Wharf scene, with Steamer Horda.]
:154 Photograph of W.B. March Lumber Company's (Ivanhoe, Calif.) truck and trailer. Loaded wth 6,000 ft. of Merch. Redwood showing the steamer Talabot loading for Australia in the background.
:155 Steamer Talabot. 5,900 tons. Loaded for Australia May 20th, 1925. 979,000 ft. Clear Rwd. [i.e. Redwood] lumber & door stock.
:156 A shipment of assembled tanks to Alaska for storing whale oil. S.S. Confianza. [Photogrpah by Frost Photo.]
:157 To Alaska. [Photograh by Frost Photo.]
:158 [Factory scene.]
:159 [Factory scene.]
:160 [Factory scene. Duplicate of No. 186.]
:161 [Factory scene. Duplicate of No. 184.]
:162 [Wharf scene.]
:163 [Wharf scene.]
:164 [Lumber yard at wharf.]
:165 [Lumber yard.]
:166 [Wharf scene, with steamer Stanwood.]
:167 [Unidentified mechanism atop trailer.]
:168 [Lumber yard at wharf.]
:169 Flame test of a wall board made at Pittsburg, Calif.
:170 Wall board.
:171 [Wharf scene.]
:172 S.S. West Nivaria.
:173 Jan. 30, 1922. Remco. [Factory scene with snow.]
:174 [Wharf scene, with steamer West Sequana.]
:175 [Steamer West Nivatma?]
:176 S.S. Waitamata. Dec. 1923.
:177 [Lumber yard at wharf.] [Panorama of two attached photographs.]
:178 [Wood tanks.]
:179 Enlarging the old office. About 1920.
:180 [Unidentified factory worker.]
:181 Tiemann type dry kilns.
:182 [Factory scene.]
:183 Method of stacking lumber for Tiemann dry kilns -- 2 paired piles -- space between for air circulation -- air cooled at bottom & dried flat frames used to get ends lined up.
:184 [Factory scene. Duplicate of No. 161.]
:185 [Unidentified residence, with wood siding.]
:186 [Factory scene. Duplicate of No. 160.]
:187 [Garage, with wood siding.]
:188 Mission Sta. [i.e. Santa] Barbara. 7-1-25 [i.e. July 1, 1925].
:189 Edison Co. Power House. 7-1-25 [i.e July 1, 1925].
:190 [Specification table for windows.]
:191 State St. opp. Calif. Hotel. 7/1/25 [i.e. July 1, 1925].
:192 State St. Hotel California.
:193 Hotel California. 7-1-25 [i.e. July 1, 1925].
:194 7-1-25. [Lincoln School. July 1, 1925.]
:195 Hotel California. 7-1-25 [i.e. July 1, 1925].
:196 [Lumber yard at wharf.]
:197 [Wharf scene. Unidentified steamer.]
:198 [Wharf scene. Steamer Wilhelm Hemsoth.]
:199 [Wharf scene. Steamer West Nivaria.]
:200 [Wharf scene, with steamer Enton.] [Duplicate of No. 203.]
:201 [Lumber loaded onto truck.]
:202 S.S. Fort Sutter.
:203 [Wharf scene, with steamer Enton.] [Duplicate of No. 200.]
:204 [Lumber yard at wharf.]
:205 [Logo of Redwood Manufacturers Co.]
:206 [Interior, show house, with hardwood floor, custom moulding, etc.]
:207 [Interior, show house, with hardwood floor, custom moulding, etc.]
:208 [Exterior, show house.]
:209 [Remco truck.]
:210 [Unidentified residence.]
:211 [Unidentified residence.]
:212 [Unidentified residence.]
:213 [Unidentified residence.]
:214 [Unidentified residence.]
:215 [Unidentified residence.]
:216 [Unidentified residence.]
:217 [Unidentified residence.]
:218 [Unidentified residence.]
:219 [Unidentified residence.]
:220 [Unidentified residence under construction.]
:221 [Unidentified residence.]
:222 [Unidentified residence.]
:223 [Unidentified residence.]
:224 [Unidentified residence.]
:225 [Unidentified residence.]
:226 [Unidentified residence.]
:227 [Unidentified residence.]
:228 [Unidentified residence.]
:229 [Unidentified residence.]
:230 [Unidentified residence.]
:231 [Advertisement for Remco redwood screen door.]
:232 [Unidentified residence.]