A brickyard in Wilkesboro near the town of Banks, Oregon circa 1910-1914. In this image, two men stand next to a small rail car that resembles a mining cart, which is set on narrow gauge rails. The car is filled with a clay mixture; this was raw material for the bricks. Two other workers stand to the left. The shed behind them holds the brick-making machinery, which was powered by a belt that the steam engine tractor (left, background) drove. The wooden tower structure (left, midground) may be a water pump. Stacks of bricks are drying in the foreground. The photographer, William Alonso Clapshaw, exposed half of a glass plate negative to create this image. The other half of the glass plate was used to make another photograph of the same brickyard; see image PUA_MS154_036b.
Stacks of bricks drying at a brickyard in Wilkesboro near the town of Banks, Oregon circa 1910-1914. In this image, two men are working in a shed that holds brick-making machinery, which is powered by a belt that the steam engine tractor (left, background) drove. The wooden tower structure (center) may be a water pump. The photographer, William Alonso Clapshaw, exposed half of a glass plate negative to create this image. The other half of the glass plate was used to make another photograph of the same brickyard; see image PUA_MS154_036a.
A man and two children stand next to brick-making machinery inside a brickyard in Wilkesboro, near the town of Banks, Oregon circa 1910-1914. They may be the brickyard owner and his son and daughter. The man is wearing business clothes, a hat, tie and a pocketwatch chain, while the children are wearing sandals and clothes that would be suitable for play. Other photographs of the same brickyard show workers wearing much rougher and dirtier clothing; see photographs PUA_MS154_036a and PUA_MS154_036b. They are standing inside a shed which sheltered the brick-making machines. Stacks of bricks are drying in the background.
Sepia-toned image of a half a dozen men standing just beneath the roof of an open work area. Two brick making machines are there, with carts stacked with bricks ready to go into the kilns for drying in front of each. The man visible in the rafters on the image left is probably loading the clay into the brick press from the upper floor.
Sepia-toned image of a brickyard. Two horses stand beside pug mills used to process the clay before making bricks, and the large kilns in the background were built of bricks to be fired. Note the businessman in the middle of the photo, dressed in a suit, when all the other men in the photo wear work clothes. This is very likely William C. Adams, the owner of the brickworks. His father, Calvin, came to Oregon in 1852 and took up a Donation Land Claim, and William, the fourth child, was born in Oregon about ten years later. He is listed in the 1880 census at age 15, and in the 1900 census his age given as 37 and his occupation listed as 'Brickmason.'
Photo of the brick yard that stood near Wilksboro. It was powered by a steam engine and drew its raw materials from the surrounding land. The building no longer stands, but there are still impressions in the land just west of the railroad tracks from years of digging out material for bricks.
