Logging Camp Cookhouse, ca. 1904
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 boiledcorned 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.
Photographer: Webster & Stevens
Image Date: ca. 1904
Image Number: 1983.10.6917
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