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Old Man & The Boy’s Newell Mill

December 13th, 2007 @ 1:12 am by Cliffe | Sorted Vintage Adsborder
This vintage advertisement comes once again from a 1900 copy of The Argus. Pictured are “The Old Man” and “The Boy,” owners of Newell Mill and Manufacturing Company of Seattle. The mill was located in what is now the South Park neighborhood. When the town was annexed by Seattle in 1907, Newell Mill was its largest employer. Here’s another high-res image of the mill from Wikipedia. Spy the image below and give it a click for more detail.
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Newell Mill & Manufacturing Company. Manufacturers of shingles, fir and cedar lumber. We furnish bridge timbers, cedar siding, lath and all kinds of rough and dressed lumber. The Argus, 1900.

2 Responses:

  1. Jonathan Shipley wrote:

    The Boy looks to be 40. The Old Man is probably, what? 46?

  2. Didi wrote:

    LOL! Don’t you love the fact that apparently in those days age and boy aren’t numbers?

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