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[Utah-Idaho Sugar Co.]
Title
[Utah-Idaho
Sugar
Co.]
Accession ID number
1943.42.54543
Object Type
negative
,
nitrate
cellulose
Creator
Asahel
Curtis
Date
1928
Rights
Property
of the
Washington
State
Historical
Society
-
All
Rights
Reserved
Full Description
The
Utah-Idaho
Sugar
Company
building
in
Bellingham
,
Washington.
Two
Great
Northern
freight
cars
are on the
track
in
front
of the
building.
Subject
Whatcom
County;
Bellingham
,
WA;
Utah-Idaho
Sugar
Company;
agriculture;
sugar
beet
industry
Remarks
Photograph
taken
by
Asahel
Curtis
for the
Great
Northern
Railway.
The
Bellingham
Utah
and
Idaho
(U
&
I)
factory
was
constructed
in
1925.
522
farmers
in
Whatcom
and
Skagit
counties
planted
over
3000
acres
of
beets
, with a
harvest
of
20
,
741
tons.
The
factory
produced
50
,
237
bags
of
sugar
the
first
year.
The
factory
only
operated
barely
14
years
,
closing
in
1938.
Electronic Publisher
Washington
State
Historical
Society
Description
nitrate
cellulose
Condition
good
Dimension
height: 8 inches; width: 10 inches
File Characteristics
Negative scanned on a Microtek ArtixScan 1800f scanner at 600 ppi grayscale tiff and resized to a 300 jpeg
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