Brown Farm at Nisqually 1913

In 1913, Asahel Curtis took a series of photographs of the A.L. Brown Farm, in the Nisqually Valley, now part of the Billy Frank Jr. National Wildlife Refuge. This photograph of a harvest portrays a bucolic lifestyle that would not last much longer into the 20^th century. 

Asahel Curtis photograph, 1913, courtesy Washington State Historical Society, catalog 1943.42.15173

Text © Deborah Ross and The Olympian 2017