Alvin H. Waite photographs and other material 1892-1926 1892-1901

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Alvin H. Waite photographs and other material 1892-1926 1892-1901

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Photographs of Mount Rainier expeditions, Tacoma, and other Washington and Midwest locales by amateur photographer from Tacoma and Seattle.

.6 cubic feet, including 278 photographs and 10 lantern slides; 2 boxes

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Museum of History & Industry Sophie Frye Bass Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6375630

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Waite, Alvin H. (Alvin Henry), 1862-1929

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Alvin H. Waite (also known as A.H. Waite) was born in Iowa in 1862. He worked as a piano tuner in Tacoma and later Seattle. Waite was an outdoorsman and traveler, and many of his photographs were made on trips between the West Coast and the Midwest. His photographs of the Mount Rainier area, made in 1893, may be among the first ever made of the region. In fact, Waite may have been the first photographer to carry a camera on an ascent of the mountain. Along with his friends and associates, Albert...

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