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Darius Kinsey Sr.

Birth	:	23 Jul 1869 Maryville, Nodaway County, Missouri, USA
Death	:	13 May 1945 Sedro-Woolley, Skagit County, Washington, USA
Burial	:	Vittangi Nya Kyrkogård, Vittangi, Kiruna kommun, Sweden
Coordinate	:	67.6786826, 21.6873188
Description	:	"Darius Kinsey was the most important and prolific photographer of logging activities in the Pacific Northwest. This collection of 130 selected images from the Libraries' collection illustrate all aspects of logging and lumbering from the turn of the century until the 1940s. Darius Kinsey was a pioneer artist active as a photographer in the Northwest from the late 19th century to 1940. He was born in Missouri in 1869. Arriving in Snoqualmie, Washington at the age of 20, he went into the hotel and mercantile business, but soon after became intrigued with the art of photography. After learning the photography trade,... Read More	"Darius Kinsey was the most important and prolific photographer of logging activities in the Pacific Northwest. This collection of 130 selected images from the Libraries' collection illustrate all aspects of logging and lumbering from the turn of the century until the 1940s. Darius Kinsey was a pioneer artist active as a photographer in the Northwest from the late 19th century to 1940. He was born in Missouri in 1869. Arriving in Snoqualmie, Washington at the age of 20, he went into the hotel and mercantile business, but soon after became intrigued with the art of photography. After learning the photography trade, he was hired by the Seattle and Lake Shore Railroad Co. and spent the next five years taking views along its line. At the same time, he started his pictorial documentation of life in the logging camps, photographing every aspect of logging in the Pacific Northwest. In 1896 he married Tabitha May Pritts and a year later started a studio in Sedro-Wooley. He depended on portraiture to earn a living, but also continued to photograph scenic views. Tabitha served as her husband's assistant, working in a darkroom at home, processing negatives received from the field and sending the finished photographic prints back to the logging sites. According to the History of Skagit and Snohomish Counties Illustrated: "Darius Kinsey, the popular photographer of Sedro-Wooley, learned the art before the Skagit county communities had developed sufficiently to warrant the establishment of a gallery, but as soon as the population increased enough to make it profitable, he entered the business which he and Mrs. Kinsey have successfully conducted ever since... Mrs. Kinsey is also a photographer and takes charge of the office. Mr. Kinsey's camera is said to be the largest in the state of Washington and he is especially skillful in scenic work. He is in great demand for outside photography, while at the same time he and Mrs. Kinsey have the reputation of conducting one of the best galleries north of Seattle." At the end of 1906, he decided to move his studio to Seattle to focus exclusively on logging documentation. In 1940, he broke several ribs in a fall from a stump which ended his photographic career. He died five years later in 1945. Often using an 11x14 Eastman View camera, he photographed the entire logging process: early mornings in logging camps; the fallers posed with their axes, cross-cut saws and springboards; buckers crosscutting fallen timber; loading operations with steam donkey engines and ginpoles; logging railroads hauling their loads to Northwest mills. His images form a visual history of logging: from skid road logging with horses and sleds at the turn of the century to Diamond-T logging trucks and highlead logging operations in the 1920s. Not all his images document of logging activities. Some of his more poetic images of forest scenes are entitled: "Sunlight and shadows of towering fir trees", and, "Sunbeams filtering through shadow draped trees to the ground". This collection of 130 images represents the period 1890-1939."

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Where is Darius Kinsey Sr.'s memorial?
Darius Kinsey Sr.'s memorial is located at: Vittangi Nya Kyrkogård, Vittangi, Kiruna kommun, Sweden.
When did Darius Kinsey Sr. death?
Darius Kinsey Sr. death on 13 May 1945 in Sedro-Woolley, Skagit County, Washington, USA
Where are the coordinates of the Darius Kinsey Sr.'s memorial?
Latitude: 67.6786826
Longitude: 21.6873188

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