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Equality Colony dining hall and kitchen, 1898
Equality Colony dining hall and kitchen, 1898
TitleEquality Colony dining hall and kitchen, 1898
PhotographerUnknown
Date1898
NotesSome of the women and children identified on verso.

Caption on image: No. 5 Equality Colony. Fort Bellamy

On verso of image: 1898 (about March).Fort Bellamy was dining hall and kitchen. First building at colony, 1897. Photo early 1898 looking north. Later 1898 dining hall extended north and this became waiting room.

Located in Skagit County, south of Bellingham on Colony Creek, Equality was a Socialist colony founded in the 1890s by the Brotherhood of the Co-operative Commonwealth. It lasted until 1904.

PH Coll 728.4
Subjects (LCTGM)Eating & drinking facilities--Washington (State)--Edison; Collective settlements--Washington (State)--Edison; Log buildings--Washington (State)--Edison; Women--Washington (State)--Edison
Subjects (LCSH)Equality Colony (Skagit County, Wash.); Portraits, Group--Washington (State)--Edison
ConceptsColonies and communes
Pioneers and homesteading
Location DepictedUnited States--Washington (State)--Edison
Digital CollectionSociety and Culture Collection
Order NumberSOC0075
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Negative NumberUW11236
RepositoryUniversity of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
Repository CollectionPeter L. Hegg Equality Colony Photographs. PH Coll 728
Object TypePhotograph
Digital Reproduction InformationScanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x512 ppi. 2001.
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