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| Title | Garden and buildings at Kelly's Dude Ranch, May 1940 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1940 |
| Caption | Dude ranches in remote areas of the United States developed during the 1930s. They offered camping, horseback riding and other activities which treated tourists to an idealized picture of the Old West. Malcolm Kelly settled in the Queets River Valley in the 1920s and adapted his cattle ranch to accommodate guests. In 1940 the National Park Service acquired all privately owned land in the area. Kelly moved to Tacoma, but a second proprietor, Ed Olsen, operated Kelly's Ranch under a special permit. The ranch continued to welcome guests who wanted to fish, ride horseback and enjoy the Olympic Peninsula scenery until the 1950s.
This May 1940 photo shows the vegetable garden and rustic buildings at Kelly's Dude Ranch. The signs on the gate state that the resort is a member of the American Automobile Association and the Olympic Peninsula Resort Hotel Association. |
| Notes | Written on sleeve: Dude ranches, Kelly's
Caption information source: Seattle Daily Times, 3/30/1940, p. 14
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): May 19, 1940 |
| Subjects | Dude ranches--Washington (State)--Olympic Peninsula |
| Places | Olympic Peninsula (Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.2321.4 |
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| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photograph Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI). |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photograph Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 acetate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from film positive as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit grayscale, resized to 700 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS4. |
