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[Dave Fleming]

I 'sware' I had a copy of the book of photos taken at the turn of the century in The Puget Sound area from Glass Plates.
Gerry Nygaard aka Nordicthug, an alumnus along with SWIMPAL and I, from MARCO, had several prints made of ships loading timber over on Bainbridge Island and other lumber harbors on the Sound. We bought one and later got the book.

Now I cannot find the book nor recall the photographer?

Any Puget Sounders out there with better memories than mine?

[paladin]

Darn...Dave... the memory is the second thing to go.......(the hair is the first)......:D
I wuz gonna ask why you izz up so late....but you izz on the other coast and your clocks dunno tick at the same speed as ours....

[Bob Smalser]

Pacific Lumber Ships
Gordon Newell and Joe Williamson
Superior Publishing Company
Seattle 1960

[Dave Fleming]

Sorry O&O PacNoWest but, that ain't the one.:(

This would have been published in the 1970's or early 1980's.

[Bob Smalser]

Sorry O&O PacNoWest but, that ain't the one.:(

This would have been published in the 1970's or early 1980's.

Yup, but it's got all yer Braindead Island pics and more.

There were only so many old photos, and several books use them.

[Dave Fleming]

O&O PacNoWest, the original photographer had Germanic sounding name.

The glass plates were found in the attic of his home years after he had died. They were, to the best of my recollection, donated to one of the maritime museums and the book followed.

I found a photo on a CD I made some time back.

The photographer is Hester!http://pic4.picturetrail.com/VOL780/3097474/6292566/177473095.jpg

[Bob Smalser]

...and the book I mentioned has that Pt Blakely pic, among hundreds of others.

That's about all sailing ships did here from 1830 onwards....carry lumber to San Diego and LA and bring back staples. Even most of the Gold Rush boats packing passengers to Alaska were converted lumber schooners.

Hard to believe, but some of those SF ships brought back redwood house siding, because it was cheaper than local cedar, which at the time wasn't used for much of anything but shingles. Most of those Port Townsend victorian homes have redwood drop siding from CA.

[cjp63]

Wow....that picture is stunning, and you say there's a whole book of them?
There's something to be said for B&W photos...so much detail. I think I need that book.

[Dave Fleming]

Tall Ships on Puget Sound: Marine Photographys of Wilhelm Hester
Weinstein, Robert A.

Found it on Abebooks!

[BrianW]

Between 1893 and 1906, the photographer Wilhelm Hester produced a remarkable visual documentation of the marine shipping industry in the Puget Sound region of Washington state. He was born in Germany in 1872, and moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1893 with his brother Ernst. There he photographed the tall ships that sailed the Northwest coast loading lumber and grain for markets abroad. Operating from studios in Seattle and Tacoma, he established a commercially successful business by taking and selling photographs of ships from around the world and their crews at various Puget Sound ports, often offering them as souvenirs to the sailors themselves. Many of the photographs depict ships in the ports of Seattle, Tacoma, and Port Blakely, and reveal details of ships' decks, ship construction and rigging, interior views of masters' salons and cabins, the faces of the ships' captains and their families, and sailors from Britain, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and France. In 1898, Hester joined the throngs of gold seekers heading to the Klondike. His mining claims at Anvil Creek and Snow Creek in Alaska - in addition to other business ventures - earned him a tidy profit, and he returned to the Puget Sound area in 1899 to resume his commercial photography career. Some of his Alaskan photographs show that he must have returned to the Nome, Alaska vicinity around 1900 to take additional documentary photographs of the region.

Hester photograph 10613 (ship Samaritan)He retired from the photography business in about 1905 or 1906 to pursue real estate speculation, only occasionally taking photographs in subsequent years. In his retirement he lived in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle. He died in Seattle in 1947. This digital collection includes examples of his documentation of ships' crews and sailing vessels, his record of his experiences in Alaska (especially in Nome during the Gold Rush), various images of logging activities in Washington state, and miscellaneous views of restaurant and hotel interiors. Also included are a series of photographs taken in San Francisco's Chinatown, probably in the 1890s.

[Phillip Allen]

O&O PacNoWest, the original photographer had Germanic sounding name.

The glass plates were found in the attic of his home years after he had died. They were, to the best of my recollection, donated to one of the maritime museums and the book followed.

I found a photo on a CD I made some time back.

The photographer is Hester!http://pic4.picturetrail.com/VOL780/3097474/6292566/177473095.jpg

two things...

Note: the dimention of lumber used for ramps and the width of decking on the dock.

Note: gunport checker on the ship on the left.

[gary porter]

Dave, probably not what your looking for but a very good book on the early history of ship building especially in the Seattle area as well as California. West Coast Windjammers by Jim Gibbs. Great old photos and a lot of history of the Hall brothers who built many ships at the turn of the centry. Also a good listing of the wrecks and such in the back.
You can get it through Abe's
Gary

[Dave Fleming]

Gary, that book is an old timer in my book stacks.
Thanks for thinking of me.

[Lew Barrett]

I'll join the others in saying that photo is absolutely ethereal. Beautiful image. Let's see anybody do that with a Coolpix.

[Bob Cleek]

I have that book, but not at hand at the moment. As I recall, they took the glass plate negatives and digitally enhanced them in a way that sharpened them up trememdously. In some ways, it is really neat how sharp they are. In others, the photos loose a bit because they appear somewhat harsh. Great picture book, though.

[Lew Barrett]

As I recall, they took the glass plate negatives and digitally enhanced them in a way that sharpened them up trememdously. In some ways, it is really neat how sharp they are. In others, the photos loose a bit because they appear somewhat harsh. Great picture book, though.

Damn! They used a coolpix?:eek: