Port Angeles Washington Giant Cedar Tree Logging Lumberjacks 1923 Postcard Posted

This postcard was mailed in 1923 and shows a massive cedar tree near Port Angeles, Washington, with lumber workers posed beside the trunk to demonstrate its extraordinary diameter.

Timber harvesting dominated the economy of the Olympic Peninsula during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when enormous stands of old-growth cedar, fir, and spruce attracted logging companies and sawmills to communities such as Port Angeles. Postcards frequently highlighted these giant trees as symbols of the region’s natural resources, often staging workers beside the trunks to emphasize scale and the remarkable size of Pacific Northwest forests.

The printed caption along the lower edge reads A Native Cedar, 16 Feet in Diameter, Port Angeles, Wash., while a measuring pole is positioned upright against the trunk to document the tree’s width. Several lumberjacks appear seated and standing around the massive base of the cedar, surrounded by cut branches and forest debris typical of early logging scenes. The card was mailed in 1923 and preserves both the dramatic visual scale of the tree and a period message written on the reverse.

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