<p>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 boiled corned 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.</p>
<p>Handwritten on sleeve: Interior Cook House 1900-5.
Caption by MOHAI staff.</p>
<ul><li>Subjects (LCTGM): Mess halls--Washington (State); Lumber industry--Washington (State)</li></ul>
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Webster &amp; Stevens</div>
circa 1904 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1904-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
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