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| Title | Camp Elma, Civilian Conservation Corps, ca. 1937 |
| Photographer | Kinsey, Clark |
| Date | ca. 1937 |
| Notes | Caption on image: Co. 6420, Camp Elma. Lt. Merrill S. Thornber, Company Commander. Lt. Giotto G. Antorelli, Subaltern. Kinsey Photo No. 1x
PH Coll 516.5523 |
| Contextual Notes | Elma is a community on the Chehalis River twenty-seven miles west of Olympia in southeast Grays Harbor County. It was an once an important logging center and is now largely dependent on agriculture since the nearby Satsop Nuclear Power project was shut down. It was named for Miss Elma Austin, whose family settled in the vicinity before 1860. Two other name sources have been suggested. One is that the name is for Elmer E. Ellsworth, the first soldier to be killed in the Civil War, but with his given name shortened to the present form by post office officials. Another is that two residents of the town submitted the name Elmira when a post office was established, and that postal officials shortened the name to the present form because of another Almira in the state.
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Barracks--Washington (State)
Work camps--Washington (State)
Automobiles--Washington (State)
Flags
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.). Camp Elma (Elma, Wash.)
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)--Facilities--Washington (State)
Grays Harbor County (Wash.)
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Grays Harbor County |
| Digital Collection | Clark Kinsey Photographs
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| Order Number | CKK01072 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices see: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/reproduction-info Please cite the Order Number when ordering. |
| Negative Number | C. Kinsey 5523
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Clark Kinsey Photograph Collection. PH Coll 516
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| Object Type | Photograph |
| Physical Description | Silver gelatin, b/w ; 11 x 14 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x512 ppi. 2003. |
