IMAGE
Camp flunkey Item Info
![Ms. Adair holds a hammer reading to ring a bell in camp. 'Dolly Adair, attractive flunkey at Camp 27 on Breakfast Creek. Although women flunkeys were used in logging camps during World War I, none were employed at camps in the Clearwater forests until the summer of 1942. (Logging of consequence did not begin in the Clearwater until 1926). Many and dire were the predications of what would happen when the girls went to work in the camps, but aside from a sizeable number of school teacher lumberjack marriages and a noticeable sprucing up by all the men in the camps, nothing much happened. The girl flunkeys have worked efficiently and well. A tendency to move about and to not stay in any one camp for more than a few months sometimes weeks, is evident among them. The beckoning finger of other jobs provides a well nigh [sic] irrestible lure with a resulting high turnover of flunkey labor, but, nevertheless they have performed a fine war job.' Description taken from back of photograph.](https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/plcphotos/plcphotos553.jpg)
- Title:
- Camp flunkey
- Date Created (ISO Standard):
- 1943
- Approximated Date:
- yes
- Description:
- Ms. Adair holds a hammer reading to ring a bell in camp. 'Dolly Adair, attractive flunkey at Camp 27 on Breakfast Creek. Although women flunkeys were used in logging camps during World War I, none were employed at camps in the Clearwater forests until the summer of 1942. (Logging of consequence did not begin in the Clearwater until 1926). Many and dire were the predications of what would happen when the girls went to work in the camps, but aside from a sizeable number of school teacher lumberjack marriages and a noticeable sprucing up by all the men in the camps, nothing much happened. The girl flunkeys have worked efficiently and well. A tendency to move about and to not stay in any one camp for more than a few months sometimes weeks, is evident among them. The beckoning finger of other jobs provides a well nigh [sic] irrestible lure with a resulting high turnover of flunkey labor, but, nevertheless they have performed a fine war job.' Description taken from back of photograph.
- Subjects:
- women lumber camps tools
- Location:
- United States;Idaho;Clearwater County
- Latitude:
- 46.579728
- Longitude:
- -115.695527
- Source:
- Potlatch Corporation Historical Archives, 1900-2007, MG 457, University of Idaho Special Collections and Archives
- Finding Aid:
- https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv40829
- Source Identifier:
- 457_203_47_016
- Type:
- image;stillimage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Camp flunkey", Potlatch Lumber Company Photograph Collection, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/plcphotos/items/plcphotos553.html
Rights
- Rights:
- Potlatch Corporation retains all rights in any trade name, or trademark of Potlatch Corporation related to these Items, and copyright to company magazines and newsletters until such copyrights transfer into the public domain. For more information, please contact University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives Department at libspec@uidaho.edu.
- Standardized Rights:
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