Washington Emergency Relief Administration, Division 2 Works Project Summaries, 1934-1945 - Ar55-1-0-8_P0284
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Image shows men removing tree stumps from a field using axes and a tractor. Piles of burning stumps and brush are located in the center and background of the image.
"State of Wash / W. E. R. A. Dist # 2 / 17-B20-66 / July. 27 1934 / Neg. No 379 / Poling [sic?] a stump to the fire / A. M. C. and Tel. Station." -- handwritten in lower left-hand corner on recto.
"K.N." -- handwritten on recto in lower right-hand corner.
"Army Signal Corps Radio Transmitter Station / (122) In excess of $15,000 was expended in clearing and landscaping this thirty acre site for the Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph system, sponsor for the project. The operation, herewith shown, was carried on by single men and men over fifty years of age." -- on typewritten note attached to verso.
[Identification of item], Washington (State) Emergency Relief Administration, Division 2 Works Projects Summaries, 1934-1935, Washington State Archives, Digital Archives, http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov, [date accessed].
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Indexing and digitization completed by Rebecca Hastings, Washington State Archives.
