Dwight Watson photograph collection, ca. 1924-1960 [graphic]. ca. 1924-1960.

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Dwight Watson photograph collection, ca. 1924-1960 [graphic]. ca. 1924-1960.

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Primarily photographs of skiing and mountaineering expeditions, along with scenic views of the Cascade Range, the Olympic Mountains, and other natural areas in the western U.S., ca. 1924-1960. Most photos were taken by Watson, but there are also images by Bert Huntoon, Hermann Ulrichs, Ray Atkeson, Lawrence D. Lindsley, and E. Dagleish. The collection also includes postcards and ephemera.

3,377 photographic prints : b&w ; various sizes.

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Watson, Dwight, 1900-1996.

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Seattle-born Dwight Watson developed an interest in mountaineering in the 1920s while employed at the Puget Sound Power and Light Co. Watson explored scenic spots in the Cascade Range, Olympic Peninsula, British Columbia, and Oregon, and he made the first ski ascent of Glacier Peak with Sigurd Hall in 1938. As an amateur photographer, Watson documented many of his mountaineering and skiing trips, and in 1936, he took publicity pictures for the Rainier National Park Company, including annotations...

Dagleish, E.

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Ulrichs, Hermann F.

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Huntoon, Bert W., 1869-1947

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Bert Huntoon was born in Sacramento, California, on February 6th, 1869, and at the age of 14 he moved with his family to Seattle. After completing a course in civil engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, New York, Huntoon came back to Washington to begin his engineering career. He served as an assistant engineer to J.J. Donovan and in 1896 was elected Whatcom County civil engineer, a position in which he served for two terms. In 1899, he became an engineer for the Pacific A...

Atkeson, Ray

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Lindsley, Lawrence Denny, 1878-1975

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Photographer, of Seattle, Wash. Lawrence Denny Lindsley (1878-1975) was the grandson of Seattle pioneer and entrepeneur David T. Denny, who arrived in Seattle in 1851 with the first party of the city's founders. Lindsley's mother, Abbie Denny Lindsley (b. 1858), was David and Louisa Boren Denny's third child, and his father, builder Edward L. Lindsley, arrived in Seattle in 1873. The couple married in 1877 and Lawrence, their first child, was born in 1878. An early explo...