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Vintage Photos at Shadow Catchers Capture WA State History

Posted on July 9th, 2010 by Carol

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As you may have noticed, I have not posted for a while. I have been on a genealogical journey of sorts, researching the Bordeaux family of Washington state. After I wrote my article A Visit to Old Bordeaux, to my surprise I was contacted by one of the Bordeaux family descendants and he and I are just getting to know each other via email at this present point. In a way, I feel like if I can share some of his family history with him, then I will be giving back. The Bordeaux family helped many people survive the Depression, including mine.

In my search for Bordeaux family information and documentation today, I did a search for Mason County Logging Company, the name of the Bordeaux family enterprise. Originally, it had been Bordeaux Brothers Logging Company, but as they set down roots in the Capitol Forest here in Washington, the brothers, Thomas, Joseph and Gilbert (along with their sister Virginia) settled in Shelton, Washington.

Getting to the point of this saga, I found a wonderful site named the Shadow Catchers where there were several old logging pictures, including some of the Bordeaux brothers logging with oxen. I would like to have some of those photos, but for me, it might be cost prohibitive. They do barter though, so maybe I might have something they would want?

Shadow Catchers doesn’t just have historic photos, they also sell modern and contemporary ones, as well as license them for publication.

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