Henry M. Sarvant photograph collection, ca. 1890s-1910 [graphic]. ca. 1890s-1910.

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Henry M. Sarvant photograph collection, ca. 1890s-1910 [graphic]. ca. 1890s-1910.

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The collection consists of images taken by surveyor and photographer Henry Mason Sarvant. The first section is comprised of photographs taken by Sarvant between 1892 and 1913 of Mount Rainier and its vicinity. Also included are approximately 25 photographs taken by Sarvant's friend, landscape photographer and mountain climber A.H. Waite. The second group of photographs, taken between 1897 and 1901, documents Sarvant's time in Alaska and the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush. Included are images of mining practices and equipment, towns, camps, landscape scenes, and Native American settlements.

593 photographic prints : b&w ; various sizes.5 negatives : nitrate, b&w ; various sizes.

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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...

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...