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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.

Spirit LakeMt. St. HelensPre-1980 Eruption1940s

Photo-Art Studio commercial archive (Portland, Oregon); acquired by Stephen Ingham 2001. Bulk donated to Oregon Historical Society 2002–2003 (Org. Lot 791); editorial rights retained.

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