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Two workers standing beside a building at the California Powder Works. The Powder Works was located adjacent to the San Lorenzo River, three miles north of the Bay, at Powder Mill Flats.
A lumberjack lies inside the cut of a huge redwood tree. Printed on the front of the card, "'WOOD CHOPPER' - SHOWING TREE 45 FEET IN CIRCUMFERENCE. SANTA CRUZ BIG TREE GROVE, CALIFORNIA. 6 MILES FROM SANTA CRUZ ON COAST LINE OF SOUTHERN PACIFIC FROM…
Wagons being loaded with bituminous rock on the Cowell Ranch, the site of the Henry Cowell Lime and Cement Company.
View over the California Powder Works. The homes on the hill above the Powder Works, belonged to Colonel Bernard Peyton, the superintendent, and his son, William C. Peyton; at Powder Mill Flats.
Vegetable tanned - or tanoak - leather was hung until ready for shipping. Vegetable leather dried naturally over a period of days. Salz Tannery switched to a chrome process about 1961. The chrome process made a softer tannage, more suitable for…