Albert Henry Barnes was born in 1876. Well known as both a photographer and a oil painter, he documented images of the landscape, people, and cities and towns of Western Washington around the turn of the 20th century. However, little is known about his life. He apparently operated out of studios both in Parkland and Tacoma. His images appeared in some local newspapers from 1905-1915. He also wrote descriptive articles for photography magazines, railroad publications, and travel books. In 1909, he photographed, wrote and published a work entitled: Sights and scenes from Tacoma to Paradise Park: forty-eight views. In 1911, in collaboration with his friend A.H. Denman, he published his best-known work: "Our Greatest Mountain and Alpine Regions of Wonder". The work contained a number of Barnes landscape photographs, as well as a color reproduction of his painting entitled "Mount Tacoma". In addition to his publication work, he provided services for the Washington State Historical Society such as documenting commemorative services for some of the historical markers erected by the society. He died in Tacoma in 1920.

James Bert Barton (1881 - 1967) was born in Kansas, and lived and worked in Seattle from approximately 1900 until his death. James and his brother Arthur formed the Barton Brothers photography studio.

Levi Bradley was born in Collingwood, Ontario. He advertised himself as photographer and "traveling artist" in Forest Grove and Dayton, Oregon, and moved to Seattle in 1902. He operated a photo studio 1906-1907, perhaps longer. He became a Seattle Police photographer in 1912 and retired after 25 years with the department. Two of his sons became professional photographers, working for the Hart Studio in Seattle. Bradley died in 1952.

Asahel Curtis was the most prominent Seattle photographer of the early twentieth century, as well as a noted outdoorsman and regional booster. Born in Minnesota in 1874, he moved to Washington Territory in 1888. Asahel's brother, Edward, supported the family by opening a photography studio in Seattle, and Asahel went to work for him in 1894. In 1897, the brothers agreed that Asahel should go to the Yukon and document the Klondike Gold Rush. Asahel remained there for two years, alternately taking pictures and working a small and largely unproductive claim. The brothers parted ways after a bitter disagreement over the rights to Asahel's Yukon photos, which Edward had published under his own name. Edward later became nationally recognized for his twenty-volume series of photos of Native Americans. Asahel also enjoyed a successful career as a photographer, although he did not receive the acclaim that Edward did. He married Florence Carney in 1902 and opened his own studio in 1911. He was hired by a number of local companies, organizations, and wealthy individuals to take portraits and promotional photos. Asahel became more widely known for his high-quality images of the Washington landscape that were published nationally.

Asahel Curtis had a deep appreciation of Mt. Rainier and for several decades he directed both his appreciation for scenic beauty and efforts at regional boosterism into the development of Mt. Rainier National Park. Curtis was a founding member of the Mountaineers, a mountain-climbing group which also promoted the preservation of wilderness areas. Curtis was active in the affairs of the club for the first several years after its founding in 1906. He led the Mountaineers on climbs of Mt. Rainier and organized a committee within the club on Mt. Rainier National Park. However, his involvement in the Seattle-Tacoma Rainier National Park Committee (later the Rainier National Park Advisory Board) strained his relations with the group. The committee, which Curtis chaired from 1912 to 1936, was formed by community business interests to exploit the park's tourism potential. Curtis, through the committee, sought to promote accessibility to the park and to increase tourism by building roads. His opposition to the expansion of Olympic National Park in the late 1930s led to a further deterioration of relations with the Mountaineers. It also caused a rift between Curtis and his fellow Mt. Rainier boosters and effectively ended his involement in park affairs.

Curtis's advocacy was not limited to the development of Mt. Rainier National Park. While serving as the offical photographer for the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, he also chaired its Development Committee and its Highway Committee for many years. His interests reached beyond the Puget Sound region. Curtis owned a small orchard in Ellensburg, and he believed that the landscape of Central Washington could be improved by building irrigation projects to turn the arid region into cropland. The Washington Irrigation Association thus chose Curtis to be its president in the 1920s. He also participated in the affairs of the Washington State Good Roads Association, serving as its president in 1932 and 1933. Asahel Curtis died in 1941.

Norman Stewart Edson (1876 - 1968) was born in Montreal, Canada to oil painter Allan Edson, R.C.A. He studied art in his father's studio and then went to study in Paris. In 1905 he traveled to Everett and became a photographer's apprentice under Bert J. Brush. He then opened his own studio on Hewitt Avenue, photographing Tulalip Indians, logging camps and Northwest scenes. During the economic downturn of 1907, Edson moved back to Quebec. There he continued his work on scenic tinted photography. In 1911, Edson returned to the Northwest, settling in Tacoma. In 1921, he boarded the wrong boat from Tacoma and landed in Burton, Vashon Island by mistake. He moved his studio and residence there and remained until his death in 1968.

Worthington Edmund Edwards was born in 1882 in West Virginia. He moved to Washington state by 1909, operated a photography business circa 1925-1926, and died in Seattle.

Photojournalist Frank A. Jacobs (1881 - 1979) was born in Kansas. He settled in Seattle in 1907 and began work as a photojournalist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 1909. He spent the 1920s as the official photographer for the Rainier National Park Company.

Darius Kinsey (1869-1945) was a pioneer artist active as a photographer in the Northwest from 1890 to 1940. He was born in Missouri and arrived in Snoqualmie, Washington in 1889. He is best known for his large-format images of loggers and the region's lumber industry He operated a successful photography studio and gallery in Cle Elum, Washington from 1897 to 1906, then moved his studio to Seattle, where he worked until 1940.

Myron B. Kreidler (ca. 1905 - 1985) was born in Minnesota, and by 1920 moved with his family to Tacoma, Washington. He lived and worked as a commercial photographer in the Tacoma/Parkland area in the 1930s-1950s, and died in Tacoma in 1985.

Frederick William Loschenkohl was born around 1878 in Nevada. He resided in Washington from at least 1903 to 1929, either living or operating a studio variously in Carbonado, Seattle, and Waterville, and serving as Secretary of the Photographer's Society of Seattle in 1907. He operated a studio in Hood River, Oregon around 1940.

Tacoma photography studio Ranapar Studio (very likely an abbreviation for Rainier National Park) was founded by Seattle photographer Asahel Curtis as part of the Rainier National Park Company, which was created by prominent members of Seattle and Tacoma society for the purpose of developing recreational and tourist facilities in the park.

Preston Duncan (1899-1958) moved with his family to Seattle about 1910. In the early or mid 1920s, he moved to Hollywood, CA, where he gained fame with his experimental portraits of movie stars.

J. Boyd Ellis (1894 - 1983) was a former principal of Marysville High School. His interests turned toward photography, and in 1921 Boyd purchased a photo studio in Arlington, Washington. He published thousands of scenic postcards of Washington State as Ellis Post Card Co. until he retired in 1959.

Arthur L. Seabury (1910 - 1990) was born in Seattle, Washington. He attended West Seattle High School and the University of Washington, where he was a star marksman. He is listed as a commercial photographer in the 1940 census. He died in Poulsbo, Washington.

Clyde Banks (d. 1977) was a pioneer photographer in Whatcom County. He took the first aerial photos of Mt. Baker and Twin Sisters, and owned Clyde Banks Camera & Art Shop in Bellingham from the early 1900s until circa 1960.

J. Boyd Ellis (1894 - 1983), a former school principle, opened a photo studio in Arlington, Washington in 1921. He roamed the state of Washington is search of scenic views and published scenic postcards through his company, Ellis Post Card Co.

Irving Bowen Lincoln (1890 - 1980) was an amateur photographer based in Portland, Oregon. He was known for his images of Northwest mountains.

Frederick K. Ordway (d. 1938), "Alaska's Flying Photographer," and his wife, Laura P. Ordway, settled in Juneau around 1926 and opened Ordway's Photo Service (or Photo Shop) on Front Street about 1927. The Ordways traveled throughout Alaska in the 1930s, photographing Alaskan subjects. In 1934, Fred Ordway moved his expanding business into the Shattuck Building in Juneau and renamed it Ordway's Uptown Photo Shop. Fred Ordway died at the age of 35 on Feb. 17, 1938, from injuries he received when his rented monoplane crashed south of Oregon City, Oregon. He was photographing at the time.

Fred H. Kiser (1878-1955) was a mountaineer, promoter, and a successful landscape and commercial photographer in the American West during the first two decades of the early 20th century. He entered the photographic business around 1902 with his brother, Oscar, as Kiser Brothers Scenic Photographers. With studios both in Portland and at Warrendale, Oregon, they established themselves as significant landscape photographers. By 1905, Fred was working independently of his brother and continued to focus on Pacific Northwest scenic landscapes. Color photography helped make Kiser’s work nationally known and helped to create and promote national parks in the Northwest, including Crater Lake and Glacier. Kiser developed the art of hand coloring into a mass-production line that allowed him to market his Artographs widely.

Born in London in 1877, Joseph Frederick Spalding immigrated to Canada in 1898. He arrived in Fernie, British Columbia in March of 1904, bringing with him a small photography enterprise he had founded in 1902. In 1908, Spalding invested over $1000 to modernize his studio. He left the Elk Valley in 1924, and re-established his photography career in Vancouver, BC, in 1925, initially as a partner in the Gowen Sutton Postcard Company and then with his own business The Camera Products Co. He died in Vancouver in 1958.