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, buttr, 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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