Black-and-white photograph: Spirit Lake, Mt. St. Helens, 1940s. Location: Spirit Lake, Mt. St. Helens, Washington. Date: c. 1940s.

Spirit Lake, Mt. St. Helens, 1940s

c. 1940s  ·  Spirit Lake, Mt. St. Helens, Washington

Boating and swimming at Spirit Lake below Mt. St. Helens in the 1940s — the pre-eruption resort lake, decades before the May 1980 eruption obliterated the lake and surrounding landscape. Images of Spirit Lake from this era are rare documentary records of a vanished place.

Date
c. 1940s
Location
Spirit Lake, Mt. St. Helens, Washington
Archive ID
R219D-6
Photographer
Photo-Art Studio (Portland, Oregon)
Format
16-bit TIFF master · scanned from original negative
Spirit LakeMt. St. HelensPre-1980 Eruption1940s

Photo-Art Studio commercial archive (Portland, Oregon); acquired by Stephen Ingham 2001. Donated to the Oregon Historical Society in two parts — the bulk in 2002–2003 and the remainder in 2007 (Org. Lot 791); editorial rights retained.

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