Camas Mill Photo Project – Chris Sharp-Manger Photo 1

Camas Mill Photo Project – Chris Sharp-Manger Photo 1

Year: 1922

Camas Mill Photo Project The Chris Sharp-Manger Photos This project brings together 17 early Camas Mill photographs shared by Chris Sharp-Manger from her family collection. Dating from 1922 to 1927, the images show the mill not as a finished landmark, but as a place being built — board by board, beam by beam, rail by rail. The photographs preserve a remarkable view of construction, labor, timber, machinery, rail lines, concrete forms, and the changing industrial landscape around the mill. They also preserve something quieter: the presence of the workers themselves, often small in the frame, partly hidden in scaffolding or shadow, but essential to the story. The scans and restoration work were done carefully, with the goal of making the images easier to study while preserving the character of the original photographs. Dust, scratches, and damage were reduced where appropriate, but not at the expense of the historical content. In some cases, marks were left untouched when removing them would have altered the image too much. These notes are part observation, part restoration record, and part local-history inquiry. Some identifications remain uncertain. Others may change as more inform