California Sugar & White Pine Company.
Wholesalers of California Sugar Pine, California White Pine, Arizona White Pine, Doors, Sash, Mouldings, Lath, Incense Cedar Pencil Slats.
Wholesalers of California Sugar Pine, California White Pine, Arizona White Pine, Doors, Sash, Mouldings, Lath, Incense Cedar Pencil Slats.
Stock Code 114788
San Francisco, The Union Lithograph Co., [c. 1912].
56 photogravures
An uncommon marketing booklet for the California Sugar & White Pine Company, which was headquartered in San Francisco from at least 1902 to 1919, based on the dates of correspondence held at the Arizona Historical Society. The contents comprise 56 photogravures documenting the entire lumbering process, from stands of old-growth pine through felling, milling, and transportation. A fantastic record of the American timber industry from the period when it was becoming highly mechanised.Tall 4to; 56 photogravures, contents toned; original stiff cloth wrappers, cream with burgundy backstrip, titles gilt, wrappers a little rubbed and marked, a very good copy.
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