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Eight photographs of the Kansas Emergency Relief Committee Transient Camp located at the site of Lake Wabaunsee, near Eskridge, in Wabaunsee County, Kansas. The barracks buildings were constructed in December 1933 by George Rinner Construction of Topeka, Kansas. Several of the photographs were taken in 1934, the first year of the camp's occupation. The caretaker's house at Lake Wabaunsee, built in 1934, burned on December 5, 1936. Clyde H. Forinash worked as instructor to help rebuilt the house. After the dam was constructed in early 1936, engineers found it to be faulty, and it was removed and re-cored to assure its structural integrity.
Creator: Wolfe, Harold B., 1898-1966
Date: 1934
Item Number: 306223
Call Number: 2014-169
Holding Institution: Wabaunsee County Historical Society
Collections - Contributing Institutions - Wabaunsee County Historical Society
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1930s
Environment - Water - Lakes
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Federal agencies and programs - Agencies - Works Progress Administration
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Federal agencies and programs - Policies and programs - New Deal
Government and Politics - State Government - State agencies and programs - Agencies - Kansas Emergency Relief Committee
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Counties - Wabaunsee
Thematic Time Period - Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
Type of Material - Photographs
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