warrensprucecompany

Only those two men put this in perspective. Huge trees....

Nice snap ! I thought Sequoias were the only ones. Spruce - do they belong to the same family ?

Good question june_o_blossom! I searched the OSU College of Forestry's "Index of Common Names" site, which told me that the Spruce is in the Picea genus and the Giant Sequoia is in the Sequoiadendron genus. If you want to know more about trees in the NW, I heartily encourage you to check out the Common Trees of the Pacific Northwest page -- it's full of great information!

I'm an Admin for a group called The Mess Tent, and we'd love to have this photo added to the group!

From Wikipedia: "Arthur M. Prentiss was an American photographer born c. 1865 and died c. 1940. Some of his photos are part of the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection held in the Library Of Congress and most of his work was developed in Oregon." He published a collection of photographs in 1918 titled, "Spruce helped win the war: a portrayal of the personnel, railroad construction, timber cutting and shipping, camp life and kindred subjects necessary to the production of airplane spruce in unlimited quantities for the United States and her allies." At the time Prentiss was the official photographer for the Warren Spruce Company and Grant Smith-Porter Brothers.

Thanks for the info!