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.
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.
