Henry M. Sarvant Photograph Collection ca. 1890s-1910

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Henry M. Sarvant Photograph Collection ca. 1890s-1910

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Photographs of Mount Rainier climbing expeditions and scenes of the vicinity, 1892-1912, and images of the Klondike Gold Rush, ca. 1897-1901.

593 photographic prints, (3 boxes); 5 nitrate negatives, (1 box)

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University of Washington Libraries Special Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 6379967

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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...

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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C. B. Talbot

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Plummer, Fred G.

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Carpenter

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George Caesar

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Sarvant, Henry M. (Henry Mason), 1860-1940.

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Surveyor and photographer Henry Mason Sarvant settled in Tacoma in 1889. He was responsible for the first extensive surveys of the Mount Rainier region and named many of the area's lakes, glaciers, and peaks. In 1897 Sarvant traveled to the Klondike region, where he worked as a surveyor and located a successful mine. Sarvant returned to the Tacoma region in 1900 and served as mayor of the Washington town Steilacoom, then as treasurer of the Northwestern Woodenware Company of Tacoma. In 1912 he m...