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Our Trip to Mount Tacoma , 1902
Overview of the Collection
- Title
- Our Trip to Mount Tacoma
- Dates
- 1902 (inclusive)19021902
- Quantity
- 1 album (12 photographic prints) : black and white ; 7 x 9.5 inches
- Collection Number
- PH0647
- Summary
- Photographs of a trip to Mount Tacoma (now named Mount Rainier) from August 19-28, 1902.
- Repository
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University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
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Collection is open to the public.
- Languages
- English
Historical BackgroundReturn to Top
Mount Rainier is a mountain peak in central Washington, and the highest peak in the Cascade Range at 14,410 feet high. The name of Mount Rainier has been debated from the 19th to the 20th century. The debate has focused on the legend linking the name "Mt. Tacoma" to the original Native American names for the mountain. The mountain was named Mount Rainier in 1801 by Captain George Vancouver for his shipmate, Admiral Peter Rainier of the British Navy. In 1833, Dr. William Tolmie, a Scottish doctor and scholar sent by the Hudson's Bay Company to Ft. Vancouver, wrote in his diary using both names, "a fine view of Tuchoma or Mt Rainier." Also in 1883, the Northern Pacific Railroad Company declared: " The Indian name Tacoma will hereafter be used in the guidebooks and other publications." A book published posthumously by Theodore Winthrop, The Canoe and the Saddle , which was published in 1862 and based on a canoe trip taken in 1853, claimed "Mount Regnier Christians have dubbed it, in stupid nomenclature, perpetuating the name of somebody or nobody. More melodiously the Siwashes call it Tacoma-a generic term also applied to all snow peaks." In 1880, the U.S. Geographic Board declared Mt. Rainier the official name to be used on all government maps, though the issue was brought again before the board in 1917, and then before Congress in 1925. Mount Rainier National Park was established on March 2, 1899, to protect and preserve its wilderness and natural features for future visitors.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The collection consists of one album of photographs taken by one or more members of a party of six during a ten-day trip to Mount Rainier in August 1902. The photographs document the party's picnics and camps at various locations, as well as their walking explorations of the Mount Rainier area. The Nisqually Glacier, Nisqually River, Carter Falls, Narada Falls, and Mashel River are documented.
Other Descriptive InformationReturn to Top
Handwritten on verso of front album cover: "Mr. A.L. Bell, Mr. H.B. Hendley, Mr. E.N. Henninger, Mrs. K.S. Eisenbeiss, Mrs. C.W. Hendley, Mrs. A.M. Craig."
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Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | |
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Page | item | |
1 | 1 | Three women and two men gathered around a picnic blanket alongside a carriage at Muck Creek |
2 | 2 | Three women and two men setting up tent and arranging camp at Ohop Creek |
3 | 3 | Mashel River |
4 | 4 | Two women and one man with bicycle on the road over Mashel mountain |
5 | 5 | Three women and two men at camp on Nisqually River with horse and carriage |
6 | 6 | Photograph taken from the base of Mount Tacoma (now known as Mount Rainier) at Longmire's Springs |
7 | 7 | Nisqually River |
8 | 8 | Carter Falls |
9 | 9 | Neradali (Narada) Falls |
10 | 10 | Three men and two women with walking sticks in the snow-covered Paradise Valley |
11 | 11 | Nisqually Glacier |
12 | 12 | A man with walking stick at the top of a crevasse (in Nisqually Glacier) |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Glaciers--Washington (State)--Photographs
- Mountains--Washington (State)--Photographs
- Rivers--Washington (State)--Photographs
Geographical Names
- Mashel River (Wash.)--Photographs
- Nisqually Glacier (Wash.)--Photographs
- Nisqually River (Wash.)--Photographs
- Rainier, Mount (Wash.)--Photographs
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)