Alvin H. Waite photographs and other material, 1892-1926 (bulk 1892-1901).

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Alvin H. Waite photographs and other material, 1892-1926 (bulk 1892-1901).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191746413

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

2 boxes (.6 cubic ft.)

Museum of History and Industry

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SNAC Resource ID: 6958871

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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...