NTE2pc166.xml Guide to the Photograph Album: Washington State -- Tacoma, Olympia and Mt. Rainier circa 1900 Photograph Album: Washington State -- Tacoma, Olympia and Mt. Rainier Finding aid prepared by Greg Matthews. Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections © 2017 Finding aid encoded by Doug Lambeth. 2017 Finding aid written in English. English. Finding aid based on DACS 2nd Edition ( Describing Archives: A Content Standard). Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections PC 166 Photograph Album: Washington State -- Tacoma, Olympia and Mt. Rainier circa 1900 .25 linear feet of shelf space 1 box Oblong Folio. Twenty grey card stock leaves. Over 180 mounted gelatin silver prints, the majority are snapshots ca. 8x8 cm (3 ¼ x 3 ¼ in) or ca. 5,5x10,5 cm (2 ¼ x 4 in), also with six large studio photos ca. 14,5x19,5 cm (5 ½ x 7 ¾ in) or slightly smaller. No captions. Original black full cloth “Morehouse photo album” (paper label on the inner side of the back cover), fastened with a string. Covers mildly rubbed on extremities, a few images with mild silvering or mildly faded, but overall a very good album of interesting photos. (from seller's description). ca. 25.5x34 cm. Album with over 180 original gelatin silver photographs of Washington State, showing Tacoma, boating in Commencement Bay, Olympia, Spanaway, Eatonville, and hiking and camping on the slopes of Mount Rainier at the beginning of the 20th century. Collection materials are inEnglish.

Lively private album of photos taken by the residents of the Washington state; interesting images include panoramas of Mount Rainier, views of Tacoma train station (with railway cars and two ladies standing next the Northern Pacific Express), steamers in the Commencement Bay, Spanaway Hotel, Thomas van Eaton’s “General Merchandise” store and Hotel Groe (built in 1892) in Eatonville, Old Capitol Building in Olympia (built in 1890-92), Soldiers’ Monument in Tumwater’s Masonic Memorial Park (Olympia, opened in 1902 to honour the Washington State soldiers who fought in the Spanish-American/Philippine-American War), a street parade showing horse driven carts, and circus elephants. There are also numerous images of the family and friends on their properties, during picnics and leisure camping trips, while boating in Commencement Bay, scenes of a public gathering; a series of photos show a trip to Mount Rainier with camping tents on the mountain slopes, glaciers and waterfalls, the hikers in the fields densely covered with lilies, and on the snowy slopes. Overall a very interesting private album illustrating life in Washington State at the beginning of the 20th century. (from seller's description).

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[Item description] Photograph Album: Washington State -- Tacoma, Olympia and Mt. Rainier

Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

Purchased by WSU MASC in 2017.

This collection was processed by Greg Matthews.

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Washington (State) -- Pictorial works. Washington (State) Photographs.