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Kinsey Photographer The Locomotive Portraits Volume 3 by Bohn & Petschek
Kinsey Photographer The Locomotive Portraits Volume 3 by Bohn & Petschek
Kinsey Photographer
A Half Century of Negatives by Darius and Tabitha May Kinsey
Volume 3 Reflections from lights on some photos
The Locomotive Portraits
By Dave Bohn and Rodolfo Petschek
Hard Cover W/Dust Jacket
Pages 143
Copyright 1984
Contents
Scattered here and there among the pages are reminiscences of some of the men and women whose lives were bound up with the steam locomotives of logging operations in northwest Washington. These affectionate stories were shared during long discussions and are passed on to the reader in conversational form. Occasionally, crew members were recognized in the photographs, and these identificationsalbeit spelled phonetically at timesappear on the appropriate pages, listed left to right. The essay on the Kinsey Collection by George Thomas of the Whatcom Museum appears near the end of the book, along With John Labbe's Postscript and the authors' acknowledgments.
The locomotive portraits are loosely sequenced by location of the outfit the locomotive served. Commencing with Olympic Peninsula operations that dumped in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the lineup proceeds south along the Hood Canal shoreline. With Bloedel Donovan, which operated east and west of Puget Sound, the lineup moves to the east shores of the Soundthrough King, Snohomish, Skagit and Whatcom counties. Only six of the images bear Kinsey's date, but the time frame for the others may be established from the essay accompanying each locomotive. In general, the Olympic Peninsula images were made in the 1920s, while the east of Puget Sound images were made in the 1930s.
In the captions set above each paragraph, geared engines are listed by "model weight"as catalogued by the builderexcept for Pacific Coast Shays, which did not have a model weight but all of which weighed in at about 90 tons. For rod engines, wheel arrangement (Mikados 2-8-2, most Mallets 2-6-6-2, etc.) is the model indicator, and actual operating weightsloaded with fuel and waterare given.
Thirty geared locomotives and eleven rod engineswhich had the good fortune to be photographed by Darius Kinseyappear in this book. Indeed, in several instances the Kinsey image is the only remaining visual evidence.
Was it the character of the locomotive or the spirit of the crews that caught Kinsey's eye? Or did he understand that we do not have one without the other?
Inside Dust Jacket
The original edition of the first two volumes of Kinsey, Photographer was released in the fall of 1975. Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers released the two volumes of Kinsey, Photographer in one hardcover edition in the fall of 1995.
The saga of Darius and Tabitha Kinsey's lifework (she spent 47 years in the darkroom and he spent 50 years in the field with camera, 1890-1940) now continues with
Kinsey PHOTOGRAPHER
VOLUME THREE
The Locomotive Portraits
including 41 superb photographs of the logging industry's steam locomotives, historical essays by John Labbe on each locomotive and the logging operation(s) it served, and excerpts from conversations with some of the oldtime engineers, firemen, and brakemen.
Apparentlyonce a steam locomotive fanatic, always a steam locomotive fanatic. After working for months with the material for this book we can understand the affinity. The steamers were truly magnificent machines.
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