Title Info: John T. Labbe Collection of Logging and Railroad Photographs, 1892-2010

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Record Creator:	Labbe, John T.
Description:	This collection includes photographic prints and negatives of various railroads and logging company operations in Washington, Oregon, and California from 1892-2010. These images were collected or taken by John T. Labbe. For definitions to logging terms used in the indexing, please see WAC 296-54-505. Only a portion of this collection is currently available online. Images will continue to be added.
Related Records:	For more information, or to learn about related records, contact the Washington State Archives at (360) 586-1492, or email research@sos.wa.gov. The John T. Labbe Papers, ca. 1878-1999, are held by the Oregon Historical Society. For more information, contact the Oregon Historical Society at 503-306-5240, or email libreference@ohs.org.
Access Restriction Notes:	These images are open for research.
Sources of Transfer	State Government Archives
Notes	Indexing was conducted by the collection’s donor, Glenn Comstock. Image digitization was conducted by Glenn Comstock, Peter Replinger, and Phil Schnell.
Agency History:	John T. Labbe was born in Portland in 1911, and worked as an independent logger with various mills and contractors in northwestern Oregon. His experience in logging and interest in railroads led him to become a historian on these topics. He wrote or co-wrote several books, including “Logging to the Salt Chuck: over 100 years of railroad logging in Mason County” with Peter Replinger in 1989, distributed by Oso Publishing Company. Labbe collected images of logging and railroads in the Pacific Northwest with the goal of making them publicly accessible. He gave this collection to David Rygmyr of Oso Publishing Company in the 1990s. Glenn Comstock agreed to digitize and index the collection, and later received the images. Glenn Comstock donated the collection, including his indexing and digitized images, to the Washington State Archives.
Preferred Citation:	Preferred Citation: [Title of image], [date], [photographer if known], John T. Labbe Collection of Logging and Railroad Photographs, 1892-2010, Washington State Archives, Digital Archives, http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov, [date accessed].
Record Count:	5,735