A colonnade of whole trunks
The Forestry Building has a colonnade of whole bark-covered trunks. The record says it was demolished in 1931.
The questionHow were whole trunks this size felled, hauled and stood upright in 1909?
Investigate · Seattle 1909
Forestry Building at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific-Exposition, ca.1910 - DPLA - 050b5e9addc36f6f9185e620a054d6b3
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Photo: Lowman & Hanford · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons
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