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While the extreme cleanliness of the engine house caused tourists such as the Kiwanis to make at least some connection between the place and the workers inhabiting it, the landscape still changed when seen from a non-permanent middle class perspective. Viewed in such a light, the scene did not represent a working class claim to Place. Rather, the place's neatness and Senuty's flowers probably substantiated the booster's vision of the Bellingham Coal Mines as a local place, staffed by contented, home-owning workers unlike the alien masses causing ferment in "the greater fields." Photo 785 J.W. Sandison Collection, Whatcom Museum of History and Art.
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