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| American Lumberman Photograph Exhibit |
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The American Lumberman Photographic Collection contains more than 300 vintage prints made by American Lumberman photographers during visits to Diboll, Texas, in 1903 and 1907. Many of the images appeared in American Lumberman issues of 16 April 1904 and 18 January 1908. The collection of images and photographer's supporting notes document the early operations of Southern Pine Lumber Company and Texas Southeastern Railroad, providing insight into the early twentieth-century community life of a Texas sawmill company town and its connected logging camps.
Historical note: The town of Diboll was hewn from virgin pine forests in southern Angelina County, Texas, early in 1894. Young lumberman Thomas Lewis Latane Temple (1859-1935) of Texarkana organized Southern Pine Lumber Company in 1893 and purchased land and timber from Joseph Copes Diboll (1861-1925), naming for him the new industrial company town. Southern Pine Lumber Company quickly became a stable industry leader, becoming Temple Industries in 1963 and a public stock company in 1969. Temple Industries merged with Time Inc. in 1973 and became Temple-Eastex, which became Temple-Inland, Inc. in 1984. The city of Diboll incorporated in 1962 and today has a population of approximately 5,500, mostly employed by Temple-Inland.
Credit Line: American Lumberman Photograph Collection, courtesy of The History Center, Diboll, Texas.
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All images in this on-line
exhibit may be used for educational and scholarly
purposes, but we do ask that a credit line be included
with each image used.
For availability of higher quality reproductions,
including conditions of use and fees, please contact
us at info@TheHistoryCenterOnline.com
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