Dennis Witmer (1957-) was born in Pennsylvania in 1957, and took up photography in 1977 as an undergraduate at Millersville College. He was accepted into the graduate fine art photography department at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1985, but instead began photographing the American landscape, and moved to Alaska in 1987 in pursuit of that end. In 2012 he moved to Spokane, WA, and almost immediately began photographing regional grain elevators.
Between 2012 and 2019, Dennis Witmer documented and photographed current and abandoned grain elevators in Eastern Washington, which he eventually self-published in 12 volumes of photographs. In donating these volumes to WSU MASC, he also sent a spreadsheet containing names, geographic coordinates, and other data for 311 of these. This small collection is a printout of those.
The original spreadsheet file is held in MASC digital storage.
This collection is open and available for research use.
Copyright restrictions apply.
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Dennis Witmer Eastern Washington Grain Elevator Locations, 2021 (Cage 5145)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
Dennis Witmer donated this collection to the Washington State University Libraries on January 5th, 2022; it was processed immediately, without an accession number.
University archivist Mark O’English processed this collection in January of 2022.
Dennis Witmer’s twelve volumes of photographs are held in WSU MASC’s collection of rare books:
Grain elevators near Spokane, Washington
The grain elevators of Adams County, Washington
The grain elevators of Grant County, Washington
The grain elevators of Lincoln County, Washington
The grain elevators of Spokane and Spokane County
The grain elevators of Walla Walla and Columbia Counties, Washington
The grain elevators of Whitman County : v. 1
The grain elevators of Whitman County : v. 2
Grain elevators: the Snake River Area, eastern Washington
The grain elevators of the Tri-Cities Area: Benton County, Franklin County, Klickitat County, Yakima County, Washington
The HighLine grain elevators : v. 1
The HighLine grain elevators : v. 2
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