Photograph of a view down an alleyway in the Southern Pine Lumber Company lumber yard. Also depicted is a worker hauling a cart of lumber. Note the primitive electric light poles. The dynamo, or electrical generator, was located in the dry kiln boiler room and used the boilers to produce power.

Photograph of the Southern Pine Lumber Company dry kilns, also showing workers with a cart of lumber. The kilns were built by the National Dry Kiln Company of Indianapolis, Indiana. The structure consisted of six rooms 2,400 square feet each that could hold up to 300,000 feet of lumber and turn out 100,000 feet of dried stock daily.

Photograph of the interior of a Southern Pine Lumber Company shed showing stacked lumber and various workers. This could be the dry shed or the dressed lumber shed.

Photograph of a stack of lumber outside of what is possibly the Southern Pine Lumber Company dry shed.

Photograph of the interior of a Southern Pine Lumber Company shed, either the dry shed or dressed lumber shed.

Photograph of a Southern Pine Lumber Company office worker near two safes. This is likely in the Texarkana, Arkansas main office.

Photograph of a Southern Pine Lumber Company worker at a table with record books. It appears that he is placing a seal on a document or binding a book. This is likely in the Texarkana, Arkansas main office.

Photograph of two Southern Pine Lumber Company workers filing circle saws in a saw filer's workshop.

Photograph of a Southern Pine Lumber Company boiler room also showing an employee.

Photograph of the Southern Pine Lumber Company machine shop where steam locomotives were maintained. A locomotive is shown inside the shop.

Photograph of the interior of a Southern Pine Lumber Company boiler room.

Photograph of three Southern Pine Lumber Company mill pond workers guiding and loading logs onto the endless chain at the mill pond, where logs were pulled by the chain into the saw mill.

Photograph of the Southern Pine Lumber Company sawmill from the mill pond. The photograph shows the endless chain extending from the mill into the pond, and the angled dock from which logs were dumped into the pond off of rail cars. Construction for this mill began on March 1, 1903, and the mill became operational on June 12 of the same year. The mill was powered by a 500 horse powered Filer & Stowell 24x40 inch Corliss steam engine, producing 250,000 board feet daily as well as 60,000 feet of lath. It replaced the original mill that was built in 1894. This mill was destroyed by fire on January 7, 1968 and rebuilt by September of that year.

Photograph of timber logs being unloaded from log cars into the Southern Pine Lumber Company mill pond. This view is looking outward from the sawmill.

Photograph of Texas South-Eastern Railroad engine 3 ready to unload logs into the Southern Pine Lumber Company mill pond. The photograph shows how mill pond workers would release the chained logs using poles. The TSE railroad was founded in 1900 by the same owners of Southern Pine Lumber Company and served the company's logging operations. It also provided passenger service from Diboll to Lufkin until 1942.

Photograph of logs in the Southern Pine Lumber Company mill pond.

Photograph of the Southern Pine Lumber Company sawmill timber dock.

Photograph of a log splashing into the Southern Pine Lumber Company mill pond.

Photograph of three Southern Pine Lumber Company mill pond workers loading a log onto the "endless chain" to be dragged into the sawmill.

Photograph of a burning wood waste outside of the Southern Pine Lumber Company sawmill.

Photograph of Southern Pine Lumber Company workers with loaded lumber carts. Company housing can be seen in the background.

Photograph of dried stacked lath sitting in front of the Southern Pine Lumber Company dry kilns.

Photograph of a donkey pulling a lumber cart with a Southern Pine Lumber Company worker.

Photograph of the Star Hotel in Diboll, Texas. The hotel was built by 1903 and generally accommodated office personnel and traveling salesmen. It is where Southern Pine Lumber Company founder T. L. L. Temple stayed when visiting Diboll from Texarkana, Arkansas prior to the company library being built adjacent to the commissary circa 1908. The Star Hotel was remembered for its large dining room which fed up to thirty people at one time. The closure date is unknown but by 1939 the building had been torn down.