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Early Day Logging and Life in the U.S. Pacific Northwest

Darius Kinsey's famous detailed photography is featured in this high quality hardcover book. Kinsey, Photographer, an unforgettable photographic record of early-day life and logging in the Pacific Northwest, has delighted thousands. Charming recollections of Kinsey's life and times are included with the stunning photographs. Its marvelously detailed photographs, superbly reproduced, make it the perfect gift - and a magnificent addition to your own library.

Darius Kinsey -- a slender, quiet man lugging 150 pounds of camera equipment -- was the chronicler of the opening of the Pacific Northwest forests.  For half a century, he compiled a visual record of the Big Trees of the Northwest, and of the men who brought them down to be made into lumber and shingles. 

Kinsey, Photographer is a collection of the best of his thousands of glass plate and film negatives, the clarity and detail of which cannot be duplicated by today's smaller equipment. It also is a testament in text and photos to the life work of Darious Kinsey and his wife, Tabitha, who recaptured and preserved in the darkroom the scenes he saw.

The text of Kinsey, Photographer provides an appealing framework for the dramatic photographs and is a reminiscence of a slower lifestyle.  Much of it was drawn from memories of a daughter and son, and the recollections of loggers who posed for Kinsey.  

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KINSEY, PHOTOGRAPHER:  The Locomotive Portraits

Railroad Logging in the U.S. Pacific Northwest

A classic book on railroad logging from famous photographer Darius Kinsey. The loggers who moved to the Pacific Northwest late in the 19th century faced larger timber and more rugged mountains than they had worked before. Transporting logs from the woods to the mills required overcoming incredible engineering and construction challenges in order to build railroad lines into the untouched forests.

The task also required the development of new kinds of steam locomotives, powerful enough to haul the loads and dependable enough to stay on the tracks.  These locomotives -- the Shay, Heisler, Climax, and others -- are the stars of The Locomotive Portraits.  The Locomotive Portraits captures the wonder of this era through Kinsey's beautiful visual descriptions, and through the wonderfully poetic descriptions from the men who made the era what it was.

"The thing about old number 14 running was it was just like a horse in harness. Everything was working, everything had its thing to do. God, that was a beautiful engine." -- Rex Everett, Burlington

Quotes such as the above show the authenticity and drama captured in the book The Locomotive Portraits.  Through Darius Kinsey's famous detailed photographs, through the authoritative descriptions of the equipment used and through the heart-warming reminiscences of these men, The Locomotive Portraits takes us back to the exciting and challenging era of railroad logging.  The Locomotive Portraits is a rare and compelling journey into the past.

Large, detailed photographs and beautifully heart-warming and inspiring accounts of the men who made it happen.  Hardcover.