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| Title | Logging camp cookhouse, ca. 1904 |
| Photographer | Webster & Stevens |
| Date | ca. 1904 |
| Caption | Loggers ate their meals in the lumber camp's cookhouse. They needed three big meals to give them enough energy for ten hours of work in the woods. At a typical meal they might eat boiled corned beef, baked beans, potatoes, hash, pancakes, biscuits, butter, and coffee. Most lumber camp cooks were men.
This photo shows the inside of a lumber camp cookhouse ready for a meal. The cookhouse crew waits for the loggers. The photo was taken in western Washington state sometime between 1903 and 1905. |
| Notes | Handwritten on sleeve: Interior Cook House 1900-5.
Caption by MOHAI staff. |
| Subjects | Mess halls--Washington (State); Lumber industry--Washington (State) |
| Places | United States--Washington (State) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1983.10.6917 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 glass negative: b&w; 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from print made from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
| Photographer's Reference Number | 2476 |
