Alta Davis Waugh outdoor photo album, 1910-1920

Alta Davis Waugh and Joyce Craig Wiley documented their mountaineering, fishing, hunting, camping, and travel around Wallowa County, Oregon before World War I. Alta Davis Waugh (1890-1967) was born in Enterprise, Oregon, and worked as a telephone operator with a local phone company by 1910. In 1913 she married Elmer Waugh (1891-1978), a local utility worker and later manager with Pacific Power & Light in Yakima, Washington. Alta’s mother, Maggie Davis Bloom, was an Iowa Quaker who ran an insurance company. Joyce Julia Craig Wiley (1889-1982) was a music teacher in Enterprise, Oregon, and married Raymond Wiley. Raymond was a chemist who accepted a professorship in College Park, Maryland before World War I.

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