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| Title | Mud Mountain Dam work camp, 1938 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1938 |
| Caption | Pictured is a work camp built in 1937 to house the hundreds of men needed to work on the Mud Mountain dam project. In this photo the project office is in the foreground with a work safety sign beside the building. The camp had an office building, repair shop, air compressor, mess hall, hospital, bunkhouses for 400 men, and a few family homes. Stores and concessions were not necessary due to the proximity to the town of Enumclaw. |
| Notes | Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): May 30, 1938 |
| Subjects | Construction camps--Washington (State); Dam construction--Washington (State)--Mud Mountain |
| Places | Mud Mountain Dam (Wash.); White River Watershed (Pierce County and King County, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.5820.1 |
| 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 | 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 nitrate 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. |
