This paper has not looked in any depth at the degree to which constructions of gender shaped around capitalism connected the park and the mine.  This picture of women at the mine during the Kiwanis tour, however,  suggests such connections existed.  The obviously posed nature of the women, who are are at once physically connected to the coal while at the same time clearly separated, by their clothes and their position, from the reality of mining, obscured the degree to which the reproductive labor of many women connected them to this place on a daily basis.  This non-recognition of  unwaged relationships to Place at the mine was in many ways much the same as the boosters' subversion of labor in the park.  Photo 801 J.W. Sandison Collection, Whatcom Museum of History and Art.             Back       Primary Source Index      Go to Text