1930s Camping Trip
1930s
Oregon, United States
Photograph of two men on a camping trip in the early 1930s. The men are sitting on the ground, possibly a hole with a plank across the hole being used as a dining table. Both men are wearing hats. There are two canvas tents in background, and a wooden fence that is either being built or in extreme disrepair. On the left side of the photo are tools, set up for wood cutting. Foreground plank serving as table has a skillet, jars, potatoes, kitchen tools and other food on it. The man on the right is identified in a caption on the back as Glenn M [Merle] Davidson, and the location possibly as southwestern Oregon.
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- Description
- Photograph of two men on a camping trip in the early 1930s. The men are sitting on the ground, possibly a hole with a plank across the hole being used as a dining table. Both men are wearing hats. There are two canvas tents in background, and a wooden fence that is either being built or in extreme disrepair. On the left side of the photo are tools, set up for wood cutting. Foreground plank serving as table has a skillet, jars, potatoes, kitchen tools and other food on it. The man on the right is identified in a caption on the back as Glenn M [Merle] Davidson, and the location possibly as southwestern Oregon.
- Provenance
- Donated by the Davidson family in 2014. The donor, Norma, was married to Glenn's son, Robert. The Davidson family arrived in Oregon in the 1840s, with the second generation of the family (Glenn's parents) settling in Gresham in the 1910s. Prior to his death in 1934, Glenn ran Davidson's Drug Store in Gresham with his wife, Lucy.
- Date
- 1930s
- Subject
- Camping
- Tents
- Location
- Oregon, United States
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-RUU/1.0/
- Identifier
- ghs20140080198
- Contributor
- Gresham Historical Society
- Extent
- Print, Photographic
- Type
- StillImage
- Item sets
- Gresham Heritage
Part of 1930s Camping Trip
