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Title
[Interior of Shaver mill] (2 views)
Creator
White, Manley Freeman, 1882-1953
Date Created and/or Issued
1904-1920
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
View 1 (2018-0658). Handwritten information on verso identified turning equipment, loader, equipment controlling thickness of board, bell hook -- view 2 (2018-0659). Shows men working machinery (doggers, foreman, clean up man, engineer).
C.B. Swift and Charles B. Shaver owned the Fresno Flume and Irrigation Company; built a dam on Stevenson Creek forming Shaver Lake, built two mills and flume to transport lumber from Shaver Lake to Clovis (where had planing mills, box factory, dry kilns).
Manley Freeman White was born March 25, 1882 in York County, Nebraska to Joseph Freeman White and Hattie Monroe (both from Canada). The family arrived in Fresno between 1885 and 1900. Between 1900 and 1920 resided in Fresno, in the 1920 census listed Manley as being in Merced Falls, in 1930 census listed as being in Hilt, Siskiyou County; by 1940 he is in Klamath Oregon. Worked as millhand in lumber industry. While in Fresno, worked seasonally at Shaver Lake for the Fresno Flume and Irrigation Company (owned by C.B. Swift and Charles B. Shaver). In addition to working in the mill, took photographs in his spare time.
Steven Harrison.
Type
image
Format
Unmediated
Sheet
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
2 postcards : photographic prints ; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
Identifier
(C)001624819CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Fresno Flume and Irrigation Company--Photographs
Sawmill workers--California--Shaver Lake--Photographs
Sawmills--California--Shaver Lake
Lumber industry--California--Shaver Lake
Shaver Lake (Calif.)--Photographs
Shaver Lake (Calif. : Lake)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Photographic postcards
Place
California
Shaver Lake
Shaver Lake (Calif.)
Shaver Lake (Calif. : Lake)

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