University of Washington Libraries, Special CollectionsPH0137Jacobs, Frank A., 1881-1979Frank A. Jacobs
Photographs1900-1941110 photographic
prints (3 folders and 1 box) ; sizes varyCollection materials are
in English.Photographs of
Seattle scenes, Seattle groups, grave of a Chinese worker, climbers,
mountaineers, and scenery in Mount Rainier National Park, and horseback guiding
services, snow maintenance, and work of Robert Hamilton while working for the
Rainier National Park CompanyPhotojournalist Frank Abner Jacobs (1881-1979) was born in Kansas on
December 31, 1881, and settled in Seattle, Washington in 1907. He spent the
1920s as the official photographer for the Rainier National Park Company.
Jacobs was a pioneer in the field of photojournalism, and covered events big
and small throughout the Pacific Northwest, but specialized in transportation
disasters such as ship and train wrecks. Jacobs had been interested in
photography since he was a boy and opened his own photography studio at 4th
Avenue and Union Street, Seattle, circa 1908. Although he spent most of his
career with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
starting in 1909, he also had stints with other publications, ran his own
photography studio (Jacobs Photo Shop), served as an early motion picture
cameraman, starting circa 1911, for the Pathe News,
and had the opportunity to photograph eight Presidents. He became the
first photographer to take aerial photographs of Seattle in 1913.
Photographs of various Seattle scenes and groups; the grave of a
Chinese worker; climbers, mountaineers, and scenery in Mount Rainier National
Park; and horseback guiding services, snow maintenance, and work of Robert
Hamilton while working for the Rainier National Park Company.
The dates in this collection were taken from the
photographer's numbering system in which the first two numbers are the year
that the photograph was taken.
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Donor: Mountaineering images, Gift of Fred Watson; one photograph
donated by Brainard, 1991. Rainier National Park 18 photographs donated by
Angela Greenberg, 2021. The Robert Hamilton and Frank Jacobs Rainier National
Park Company photo album was purchased from Zephyr Books, January 2023.
Processed by Rebekah Dalby, 2002, Kaylynn Guerra,
2019, and Abbey Maynard, 2019.
Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)Mountaineers--Washington (State)--Mount Rainier National Park--PhotographsMountaineering--Washington (State)--Mount Rainier National Park--PhotographsWashington (State)PhotographsRecreationExpeditions and AdventuresMount Rainier National Park (Wash.)--Photographs
Seattle, Washington1 1View from 2nd Ave at Pike St. of
people, cars, and street car tracks outside the Peoples Savings Bank and
Bigelow Buildingsbetween
1920 and 1940 Printed on verso: "Pike, looking east from 2nd Ave."
1 2View looking down on the crowd of
people outside 215 Pike St. at S.H. Kress & Co. building on the corner of
2nd Ave. and Pike St.between
1920 and 1940 1 3View looking southeast and down across
the roofs of 3rd Ave. and Union St. (Jacobs 715)1917? Written on verso: "Post Intelligencer block SW corner Union/4th,
White Bldg./U.S. Post Office."
1 4Exterior of F.E. MacKenzie Greenwood
Garage with a gas pumps and cars, Seattle, WA1920? 15Postcard of the Theodora Home, 6559-35th
N.E.between 1914 and 1930? Written on image: "Owned and operated by The Volunteers of America."
16Capitol Auto Laundry and Service
Station, 1816 Broadway, Seattle, Washington1929? Written on verso: "Auto Laundry & service station Stucco up
to date Bldg built 1929. Hot water heated. A view of auto and service station
store brick Veneer other [ill.]."
OS17Hotel Ritz exterior with horse-drawn
carriages in front, 1618 4th Ave. N.1906 OS1 8Interior of John L. Bird Company Office
Supplies store, Seattle, WA1916?19Interior of office supply store
(possibly the John L. Bird Company)between 1900 and 1930 1 10Steamship S.S.
Oregon docked with crowd below1916? Potlatch Parade, Seattle,
WA111Float with a canoe on top (Jacobs 34)1912 Written on image: "Golden Potlatch. Seattle."
112Float drawn by people dressed as frogs (Jacobs
63)1912 113Float being pulled by people dressed as rabbits
(Jacobs 69)1912 People and GroupsOS114George F. Cotterill holding a newspaper and standing in
front buildings, Seattle, WAbetween 1900 and 1930 George F. Cotterill was a civil servant and elected official in
Seattle and the state of Washington for more than 40 years.
115Chinese grave in Horse Heaven Hills,
Washingtonbetween 1900 and 1925? Name on grave marker is in Chinese characters and translates to
Yajiu Feng.
Written on verso: "only the grave of a Chinese section hand. He
was working on the tracks in Horse Heaven Hills and was bitten by a
rattlesnake. His companions were too superstitious to carry his body on the
train with them so the burried [sic] him in the sand among the sage brush and
put up the board with the chinese inscription to mark the grave. notice the
words "Dead Man" on the board. Looks rather lonely even for a dead chink
doesn't it?"
1 16Group portrait of the Daughters of the
Pioneers of Washington dressed in pioneer costumes, Seattle, WA1937 Written on verso: "A Day in the Sixties --
February 1937. This annual affair for members and guests in Seattle
Chapter No. 1 of the Daughters of the Pioneers of Washington. Margaret Ashworth
Maxson (Mrs. Louis H.) was President of the Chapter. In the center, front Mrs.
Edmond Bowden was turned sideways to show the sunbonnet which her mother made
and wore. Mrs. Bowden (Angie Burt Bowden) wrote: Early
Schools of Washington Territory. Note--The photo widened the right-hand third
of the group. "
1 16aGroup of young ballet dancers on stage,
probably Seattle, WANovember 19261 16bTwo young ballet dancers on stage,
probably Seattle, WANovember 1926XC117Large group outside brick
buildingbetween 1900 and 1930Mountaineering117aGroup of climbers with alpenstocks, Mount Rainier
National Park, WA (Jacobs 20379) 1920118-20Men and women
climbing a glacier, Mount Rainier National Park, WA (Jacobs 201006, 201009, and
201012)1920 121Group of climbers sitting with alpenstocks on
mountainside, Mount Rainier National Park, WA (Jacobs 201007) 1920 122Group of
climbers posing with alpenstocks in Paradise Park with the Tatoosh Mountain
Range in the background, Mount Rainier National Park, WA (Jacobs
201008)1920 123Group of climbers with alpenstocks near the Paradise
Inn, Mount Rainier National Park, WA (Jacobs 201011) 1920 124Group portrait
of men and women with hiking poles in Paradise Valley, WA (Jacobs
21736)Aug. 6, 1921 Written on verso: "University party with Dean Landis as
guide."
Rainier National Park Company Official
Photographer125Mt. Rainier (Jacobs 19304)1919126Paradise Valley and Inn (Jacobs 19305)1919127-28Top of Mt. Rainier (Jacobs 19307 Jacobs
19311)1919129Interior of Paradise Inn (Jacobs 19312)1919130Narada Falls (Jacobs 19313)1919131Paradise Valley and Inn (Jacobs 19318)1919132Mt. Rainier through trees (Jacobs 19319)1919133Pinnacle Peak and camp buildings (Jacobs
19320)1919134Paradise Inn (Jacobs 19321)1919135Road to Paradise Valley (Jacobs 19322)1919136The gate to Mt. Rainier National Park (Jacobs
19323)1919137Wild Aster flowers (Jacobs 19324)1919138Cars in front of Paradise Inn (Jacobs 19325)1919139Paradise Inn (Jacobs 19326)1919140Mt. Rainier and trees (Jacobs 19327)1919141Top of Mt. Rainier (Jacobs 19328)1919142Sluskin Falls1919 Robert Hamilton and Frank Jacobs Rainier National Park
Company photo albumapproximately 1920-194166 photographs; removed from album Robert Hamilton was a guide for the Rainier National Park
Company while Frank Jacobs was a photographer, documenting guiding services,
maintenance, and other work from the 1920s to the Great Depression. The Rainier
National Park expanded during the 1920s and during this time it was the first
park in the nation to allow automobile touring sites. Park company guides also
prepared auto stages, added picnic areas, and conducted popular horseback tours
with cowboy guide.
Purchased from Zephyr Books, January 2023
2/143Group preparing to climb Mount Rainier from Longmire
Springsapproximately 1920s2/144Woman outside (Jacobs 21193)approximately 1920s2/145Toddler outside on a tricycle with three
goatsapproximately 1920s2/146Travelers on an Automobile tour of Mount Rainier
National Park approximately 1920s2/147Man outdoors at a table in the Mount Rainier National
Parkapproximately 1920s2/148Group hiking on Mount Rainierapproximately 1920s2/149Travelers outside an Automobile tour of Mount Rainier
National Park approximately 1920s2/150Woman and child outdoors on Mount Rainierapproximately 1920sWritten on verso: "Robert Hamilton"2/151Woman and child outside of automobile in the
snowapproximately 1920s2/152Woman standing in a lakeapproximately 1920s2/153Man in the snow on Mount Rainierapproximately 1920s2/154Group outside of automobile in the snowapproximately 1920s2/155Group on horses preparing to ride Mount Rainier from
Longmire Springs (Jacobs 200880)approximately 1920s2/156Group on horses preparing to ride Mount Rainier from
Longmire Springs (Jacobs 20657)approximately 1920s2/157Group on horses preparing to ride Mount Rainier from
Longmire Springs (Jacobs 19798)approximately 1920sStamped on verso: "Photo by Frank A. Jacobs,
official photographer Rainier National Park Co. Longmire Springs,
Wash."2/158Group on horses preparing to ride Mount Rainier from
Longmire Springs (Jacobs 201125)approximately 1920s2/159Group on horses preparing to ride Mount Rainier from
Longmire Springs (Jacobs 19713)approximately 1920sStamped on verso: "Photo by Frank A. Jacobs,
official photographer Rainier National Park Co. Longmire Springs,
Wash."2/160Group on horses preparing to ride Mount Rainier from
Longmire Springs (Jacobs 21583)approximately 1920s2/161Group on horses preparing to ride Mount Rainier from
Longmire Springs (Jacobs 20664)approximately 1920sStamped on verso: "Photo by Frank A. Jacobs,
official photographer Rainier National Park Co. Longmire Springs,
Wash."2/162Group on horses preparing to ride Mount Rainier from
Longmire Springs (Jacobs 211302)approximately 1920s2/263Two men with steam shovelapproximately 1920s2/264Koshring steam shovel clearing roads in Mount Rainier
National Parkapproximately 1920s2/265Koshring steam shovel clearing roads in Mount Rainier
National Parkapproximately 1920s2/266Paradise Lune National Park Service Steam Shovel
clearing snow19322/267Steam Shovel clearing snow19322/268Miscellaneous construction equipmentapproximately 1920s2/2696 Men with trucks approximately 1920s2/270Cabin outdoors in the snowMay 1926Written on verso: "Paradise May 1926)2/271Firewatch Towerapproximately 1920s2/272Miscellaneous city streetapproximately 1920s2/273California State CapitolFebruary 1941Written on verso: "California State Capitol
February 1941"2/274Horses outside a cabinapproximately 1920s2/275Horses outside a cabinapproximately 1920s2/276The Original Cat or Dog Rest Room certified Clean
Comfort Stationsapproximately 1920s2/277Cabin in the snowapproximately 1920s2/278Cabin surrounded by fallen treesapproximately 1920s2/279Wood structure on pathapproximately 1920s2/280Man amongst fallen treesapproximately 1920s2/281Black bearapproximately 1920sWritten on verso: "Robert Hamilton"2/282Landscape view of mountainapproximately 1920s2/283Comet Falls Waterfallapproximately 1920sWritten on verso: "Comet Falls"2/284Landscape View of Mountainapproximately 1920sWritten on verso: "Summerland"2/285Group of horses from afarapproximately 1920s2/286Landscape View of Mountainapproximately 1920s2/287Landscape View of Mountainapproximately 1920s2/288Landscape View of Mountainapproximately 1920s2/289Landscape View of Mountainapproximately 1920sWritten on verso: "Indian Henry"2/390Lake in a forestapproximately 1920s2/391Horses by a lakeapproximately 1920sWritten on verso: "Mistick [sic]
Lake"2/392Landscape View of Mountainapproximately 1920s2/393Bear in a cageapproximately 1920s2/394Landscape View of Mountainapproximately 1920s2/395Landscape View of snow-covered Mountainapproximately 1920s2/396Deer in the Park at Ashland Oregon1941Written on verso: "Deer in the park at
Ashland, Oregon 1941"2/397Cowsapproximately 1920s2/398Cowsapproximately 1920s2/399Cowsapproximately 1920s2/3100Landscape View of Mountainapproximately 1920s2/3101Landscape view of Mount Shastaapproximately 1920sWritten on verso: "Mount Shasta near Shasta
California"2/3102Cowsapproximately 1920s2/3103Cowsapproximately 1920s2/3104Cowsapproximately 1920s2/3105Cowsapproximately 1920s2/3106Forest in the snowapproximately 1920sWritten on Verso: "General Sherman
tree"2/3107Forest in the snowapproximately 1920sWritten on Verso: "General Sherman tree
Sequoia National Park"2/3108Man on dogsled in the snow1926Written on verso: "at paradise 1926"