[Six Southern Pine Lumber Company Dry Kilns]

Photograph of six dry kilns built by the National Dry Kiln Company of Indianapolis, Indiana for the Southern Pine Lumber Company. This view is looking from the northeast. By 1907 the company had 12 kilns which held 544,400 feet of lumber.
Date: 1907
Creator: American Lumberman
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Fontaine McCullam, Southern Pine Lumber Company General Sales Manager]

Photograph of Fontaine McCullam, the Southern Pine Lumber Company general sales manager, in his Texarkana office, Arkansas, 1903.
Date: 1903
Creator: American Lumberman
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Southern Pine Lumber Company Office Worker at Accounts Desk]

Photograph of a Southern Pine Lumber Company office worker seated at the accounts desk, Texarkana, Arkansas, 1903.
Date: 1903
Creator: American Lumberman
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Southern Pine Lumber Company Planing Mill and Loading Dock]

Photograph of the Southern Pine Lumber Company loading dock and freight cars from the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad and the St. Louis Southwestern Railway. The planing mill is seen in the background. The planing mill had a daily capacity of 250,000 board feet.
Date: 1903
Creator: American Lumberman
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Southern Pine Lumber Company Loading Dock Workers]

Photograph of south end of the Southern Pine Lumber Company loading dock showing lumbermen pushing carts of lumber. The dressed lumber sheds are shown in the background. Also shown are cars from the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad.
Date: 1903
Creator: American Lumberman
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Southern Pine Lumber Company African-American Workers Loading Lumber into Freight Cars]

Photograph of African American lumbermen loading lumber into freight cars.
Date: 1903
Creator: American Lumberman
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Southern Pine Lumber Company Loading Dock - North End]

Photograph of a man pushing a loaded lumber cart along the north end of the loading dock next to St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company cars.
Date: 1903
Creator: American Lumberman
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Southern Pine Lumber Company Worker at a Sawmill Steam Engine]

Photograph of a Southern Pine Lumber Company worker at a Corliss steam engine in one of the company sawmills. The engine was built by Filer & Stowell Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Date: 1903
Creator: American Lumberman
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Southern Pine Lumber Company Dry Kilns]

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.
Date: 1903
Creator: American Lumberman
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Texas South-Eastern Railroad Engine 3 at the Southern Pine Lumber Company Mill Pond]

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.
Date: 1903
Creator: American Lumberman
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Texas South-Eastern Railroad Engine 3]

Photograph of Texas South-Eastern Railroad engine 3. Note the split wood fuel in the tender and the brakemen on the wooden car roofs. 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.
Date: 1903
Creator: American Lumberman
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Texas South-Eastern Railroad Engines 1, 2, and 3]

Photograph of Texas South-Eastern Railroad engines 1, 2 and 3. 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.
Date: 1903
Creator: American Lumberman
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Southern Pine Lumber Company Commissary]

Photograph of the Southern Pine Lumber Company commissary which included an express office, post office, and drug store. Built in 1901, this was the company's fourth commissary, the first being built in 1894, the second in 1898, and the third in early 1901 which was later destroyed by fire. The fourth commissary was originally 3,226 square feet but a 1902 addition increased the size to 5,612 square feet. The second story was added in 1907 which increased the size of the floor space to 10,384 square feet. The first floor contained the general store and the second floor held furniture and men's furnishing goods. W. P. Rutland was the manager and eleven others were employed. This commissary was replaced by a new one on the same site in 1923, which lasted until it was torn down in 2004.
Date: 1907
Creator: American Lumberman
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Southern Pine Lumber Company Planing Mill Interior - South End]

Photograph of the interior of the Southern Pine Lumber Company planing mill from the south end, showing mill machinery. The January 18, 1908 issue of American Lumberman reports that the planing mill had one 8x30 sizer, one 8x18 sizer, four 15-inch No. 2 combination matchers, six 9-inch matchers, one 10-inch outside molder, one 15-inch inside molder, six swing cutoff saws, two resaws, two edgers, one lath machine, and two blowers. It was 252 by 80 feet in area, employed 43 people and had a daily capacity of 275,000 feet of lumber.
Date: 1907
Creator: American Lumberman
System: The Portal to Texas History

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Date: 1907
Creator: American Lumberman
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Southern Pine Lumber Company Baseball Team]

Photograph of the Southern Pine Lumber Company baseball team. The team was supported by Southern Pine's athletic society, which was open to young men of semiexective positions such as office work. It was not uncommon for East Texas lumber companies to have their own teams that played against one another. Tennis was also a focus of the athletic society.
Date: 1907
Creator: American Lumberman
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Marsh Fire Pump]

Photograph of a Marsh fire pump near the Southern Pine Lumber Company sawmill 1, also called the yellow pine mill. Th pump had an 8-inch suction capacity and 7-inch discharge.
Date: 1907
Creator: American Lumberman
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Southern Pine Lumber Company Employees outside of the Commissary]

Photograph of Southern Pine Lumber Company employees outside of the company commissary, standing along the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks. This photograph was taken on November 4, 1907. Built in 1901, this was the company's fourth commissary, the first being built in 1894, the second in 1898, and the third in early 1901 which was later destroyed by fire. The fourth commissary was originally 3,226 square feet but a 1902 addition increased the size to 5,612 square feet. The second story was added in 1907 which increased the size of the floor space to 10,384 square feet. The first floor contained the general store and the second floor held furniture and men's furnishing goods. W. P. Rutland was the manager and eleven others were employed. This commissary was replaced by a new one on the same site in 1923, which lasted until it was torn down in 2004.
Date: 1907
Creator: American Lumberman
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Southern Pine Lumber Company Sawmill No. 2 Boilers]

Photograph of the Southern Pine Lumber Company sawmill 2 boilers, showing a boiler room worker. Sawmill 2 was also called the hardwood mill. The boilers were made by Casey-Hedges Company of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Date: 1907
Creator: American Lumberman
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Marsh Fire Pump at the Sawmill No. 2]

Photograph of a Marsh fire pump at the Southern Pine Lumber Company sawmill 2, also called the hardwood mill. The pump had an 8-inch suction capacity and a 7-inch discharge.
Date: 1907
Creator: American Lumberman
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Southern Pine Lumber Company Front Office]

Photograph of the interior of the Southern Pine Lumber Company front office at check paying time in the evening. This is the main Diboll office.
Date: 1907
Creator: American Lumberman
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Southern Pine Lumber Company Cashier's Room]

Photograph of the cashier's room in the Southern Pine Lumber Company Diboll office. This photograph was taken with flashlight.
Date: 1907
Creator: American Lumberman
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Camp 1 Company Store]

Photograph of the interior of the Southern Pine Lumber Company commissary at camp 1. Camp 1 was near the Rayville Ranch site in Trinity County, Texas, about 13 miles northwest of Diboll. It replaced the Angelina County camp called Lindsey Springs, and lasted from about 1907-1912.
Date: 1907
Creator: American Lumberman
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Camp 2 Store Interior]

Photograph of the interior of the company store at Southern Pine Lumber Company camp 2. The camp was in the vicinity of Iris in Trinity County and operated from about 1907-1912.
Date: 1907
Creator: American Lumberman
System: The Portal to Texas History