Brickyard in Wilkesboro with Rail Car

Identifier

PUA_MS154_036a

Title

Brickyard in Wilkesboro with Rail Car

Description

A brickyard in Wilkesboro near the town of Banks, Oregon circa 1910-1914. In this image, two men stand next to a small rail car that resembles a mining cart, which is set on narrow gauge rails. The car is filled with a clay mixture; this was raw material for the bricks. Two other workers stand to the left. The shed behind them holds the brick-making machinery, which was powered by a belt that the steam engine tractor (left, background) drove. The wooden tower structure (left, midground) may be a water pump. Stacks of bricks are drying in the foreground. The photographer, William Alonso Clapshaw, exposed half of a glass plate negative to create this image. The other half of the glass plate was used to make another photograph of the same brickyard; see image PUA_MS154_036b.

This is one image from a set of glass plate negatives created by William Alonso Clapshaw. Clapshaw was a clerk and shopkeeper who lived near Forest Grove, Oregon for most of his life. He was born in 1880, probably at the family's home in the Hillside neighborhood of Forest Grove, on what is now Clapshaw Hill Road east of Gales Creek. Around 1910-1914, William took an interest in photography and created a set of glass plate negatives documenting scenes near his family's lands as well as images of himself, his friends and family members. He most likely used a silver gelatin dry plate process. The photographs were donated to the Pacific University Archives in 2023.

Creator

Clapshaw, William Alonso, 1880-2014

Date: Year(s)

1910/1914

Date: Display

circa 1910-1914

Subject

Brickmaking

Brickworks

Place

Wilkesboro, Oregon

Banks,Oregon

Medium

Gelatin silver negatives

Source

Pacific University Archives

Copyright

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