Agate Beach, Oregon, 1918

This is a snapshot from a collection that was generously shared with me. The photos were taken in Agate Beach, Oregon in 1918, when this fellow was in the Army. He was a "Spruce Soldier", the workers who logged the spruce lumber in the Pacific Northwest for the War effort.

To get to the spruce stands, these soldiers created roads and railroads, usually by hand.

See: swansongrp.com/spruce

Image processed with GIMP.