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Photo 2: View of interior cabin at Johnson Lake Mine Historic District.

These are the remains of the largest log cabin at Johnson Lake Mine. Susan Wells, a National Park Service archeologist, appears in the photo. The cabin was divided into two rooms and has a rodent-proof pantry (right) lined with galvanized, corrugated sheet metal. This cabin may have been a community structure, possibly the kitchen and dining hall.

Drawing 2: Elevation drawings of cabin at Johnson Lake Mine complex.

This is a drawing of the cabin pictured in Photo 2.

Questions for Photo 2 & Drawing 2

1. Examine Photo 2. What do you think this person is doing?

2. If you were an archeologist, what kind of questions would you ask when examining a site?

3. How might documenting the remains of the worker's cabins help one understand their living conditions?

4. Why do you think a rodent-proof pantry was necessary?

5. Using the scale and small model of the cabin in Drawing 2, approximately how big was this cabin?

6. Based on Photo 2 and Drawing 2, what are your impressions of the living conditions at Johnson Lake Mine?

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