This website is maintained by Willis Boughton, CCCHS '67, and is dedicated to my parents, Margaret and Everett Boughton. Thanks go to: Cathy Haney for providing access to the photos and to her and the museum staff for helping to find supporting material; John Jensen for making available his very extensive collection of photos and postcards and for providing historical information; and Dee and Ray Frigon for linking this website to their CCCHS alumni website. If you have a correction or good quality photo of general interest -- downtown, Piotique, city parks, schools, major events, etc. -- please contact me by clicking on Contact. You may e-mail scanned images or mail me copy prints; I am listed in the CCCHS Alumni page of www.claycenter.info. Information identifying the photos would be helpful, particularly date.
If you are using the Firefox web browser, you can view a picture full screen by displaying it then right clicking on it and selecting menu option View Image.
New: There is now another option for viewing the photos. It is a program you can use to view the photos in higher resolution, full screen, with zoom in and zoom out, and navigation to the previous and next photos. The program displays other photo albums also, not just the Clay Center album. To run the program, click here. The program requires that you have Java version 1.5 or newer installed on your computer. If the program does not work, it probably means you don't have the required Java. You can install it for free from here.
Other Historical Photos
In the 1930's the Federal government sent a group of photographers across the U.S. to photograph the effects of the Great Depression and government efforts to alleviate it. The photographers worked for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). When WWII started the photographers went to the Office of War Information (OWI) to photograph the homefront war effort. Altogether the FSA-OWI photographers took about 160,000 black and white and 1600 color photos. They constitute the largest and most famous photographic documentary of America. They are maintained at the Library of Congress and are available on the Library of Congress website. About 150 of the color FSA-OWI photos are available at www.bluemontsw.com/FSA-OWI in higher resolution than directly available on the Library of Congress website.