- Title
- Crew at Sturgeon's Sawmill, 1939
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- Creation Date (Original)
- 1939
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- View on Alternative Site
- View photo location on the Sonoma County Historical Photos Map hosted by the City of Santa Rosa
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- Description
- Photo--black and white: Sturgeon's Sawmill, This is the crew at that time--1939 Back row: Raymond Teige (or Feige), trimmer man, Bert Teige (or Feige), edger man and Ray's father. Front row: D. Donati--fireman, Ralph S. Sturgeon, edgerman, Ben Gonnella, delivered lumber and worked in yard, John W. Gonnella--sawyer, filer, mill right and ½ owner, Wade Sturgeon--yardman, bookkeeper and ½ owner. Dad also worked on edger. "I Ralph S. Sturgeon worked on landing, helped on repairs, piled lumber, delivered lumber on old 1921, solid tire Federal. About this time we bought a Dorris truck. I hauled lumber and logs on this truck. It was a "Dandy." In the 1940's I had Ed LaFont, my cousin, install a two-speed Brownie transmission, that was the answer. " Ralph Sturgeon, April, 1974 Photo identified by Ralph Sturgeon as "CIT-211"
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- Item Format or Genre
- ["black-and-white photographs"]
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- Local History and Culture Theme
- ["Logging and Mining"]
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- Subject (Person)
- ["Sturgeon, Wade S., 1878-1957"]
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- Digital Collection Name(s)
- ["Western Sonoma County Historical Society Collection"]
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- Digital Collections Identifier
- casebwsc_pho_010317
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Crew at Sturgeon's Sawmill, 1939
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