One of the alleys in the storage yard of the Standard Oil Company's box factory at Richmond, California. The lumber is all spruce, box grade, and there were about 20 million feet in the yard at the time the picture was taken. The lumber is stuck on standard stickers and is piled in units, the units being made up and stuck at the sorting table upon which the boards are dumped from the cars. Segregation is by width and thickness; no attention is paid to lining up the ends of the boards. The yard is very clean and orderly even though the faces of the pile present a bristly appearance. No odd boards are found lying in the alleyways, possibly because the units are handled by locomotive crane from the sorting table to the piles and from the piles back to little trucks upon which they are run to the factory. October, 1925
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Location: average distance Identification: exact ground location unclear, appears unknowable No people present in picture
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image
Identifier
fritz_metcalf-1563
Subject
Box companies - Standard Oil Box Factory Lumber yards Richmond (Calif.) Lumber Lumber - Piling methods Forest products - Boxes Picea sp. - Utilization Contra Costa County
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