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Park Ranger Charles Browne and climbing party, Mount Rainer National Park, 1930
Charles Browne became a National Park Service Ranger around 1928, working first in Mount Rainier National Park, and later in Olympic National Park. After 37 years of service, Browne retired from the National Park Service in 1965.Ranger Browne, at far left, is shown here with a party of climbers, perhaps other rangers. The men hold ice axes, and are probably…
ID Number:2009.16.43
Date:1930
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Search party for Forrest Greathouse, Mount Rainier National Park, July 1929
Often referred to as "the Greathouse accident," the most highly publicized tragedy in Mount Rainier climbing history occurred on July 2, 1929 when six climbers slid into a deep crevasse on upper Ingraham Glacier. Apprentice guide and Lincoln High School football coach Forrest Greathouse and climber Edwin A. Wetzel were killed and the other four climbers badly injured. The search…
ID Number:2009.16.51
Date:1929
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Five men near a crevasse during search and rescue operation, Mount Rainier National Park, July 1929
Often referred to as "the Greathouse accident," the most highly publicized tragedy in Mount Rainier climbing history occurred on July 2, 1929 when six climbers slid into a deep crevasse on upper Ingraham Glacier. Apprentice guide and Lincoln High School football coach, Forrest Greathouse, and climber Edwin A. Wetzel were killed and the other four climbers badly injured. The search…
ID Number:2009.16.53
Date:1929
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Search and rescue team on horseback, Mount Rainier National Park, July 7, 1931
An unroped two-man non-guided party consisting of brothers Kenneth and Robert Zinn left Camp Muir for the summit of Mount Rainier on July 4th weekend of 1931. During the ascent Robert Zinn became exhausted; sitting to rest, he began a slide of 3,400 feet, striking Nisqually Glacier. A search party headed by District Ranger Charles Browne searched in vain on…
ID Number:2009.16.72
Date:1931
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Two women Mountaineers on way to Rockdale showing Denny Mountain and Snoqualmie River, September 7, 1914
Part of an album recounting trips made by the Mountaineers between 1913 and 1916. This photograph shows a Labor Day outing of the Mountaineers that included three days of hiking as well as working on the lodge. These women are on their way back to the train station in Rockdale at the end of the weekend.
ID Number:2011.3.3.7
Date:1914
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Beaux Arts Village gazebo on bridge, circa 1910
Beaux Arts Village, a lakeside community near Bellevue, Washington, was originally established in 1908 by several Seattle members of the Society of Beaux Arts, including artist, editorial cartoonist, photographer, and architect Alfred Renfro (1877-1964). The isolated artists colony, created for members to live and work in a natural setting, included ten acres for community outdoor recreation, art studios, and craft…
ID Number:2013.39.18.12
Date:Circa 1910
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Boy standing on post posed to dive, Beaux Arts Village, Washington, ca. 1910
Beaux Arts Village, a lakeside community near Bellevue, Washington, was originally established in 1908 by several Seattle members of the Society of Beaux Arts, including Alfred Renfro. The isolated artists colony, created for members to live and work in a natural setting, included ten acres for community outdoor recreation, art studios and craft workshops. At the time there was no…
ID Number:2013.39.21.11
Date:Circa 1910
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Group aboard a tour boat, probably NACWC convention attendees, Seattle, August 1948
Here, a happy group of unidentified men and women enjoy a boat ride. They are probably attendees of the 24th Biennial Convention of the National Association of Colored Women Clubs (NACWC), held in Seattle July 31 - August 7, 1948. Delegates to the convention represented 4,780 clubs from 43 states, gathered under the motto of "Lifting as We Climb" to…
ID Number:2014.49.Box22.Folder17.001
Date:1948
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Izzy Smith with Butch Smith and a friend at Granite Falls, circa 1950
In addition to his Seattle jazz club images and photographs of the city's Black community, photographer Al Smith took many photos of his family and close friends. Here, Isabelle "Izzy" (Donaldson) Smith and Al "Butch" Smith, Jr. (at right), the wife and son of the photographer, pose with another boy on the rocks at Granite Falls during a family outing.
ID Number:2014.49.003.039.0298
Date:Circa 1950
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Family on a beach on Chuckanut Drive, Bellingham, circa 1953
A man, a woman, and a girl are on the beach on Chuckanut Drive, also known as State Route 11, a scenic 20-mile roadway that hugs the cliffs of Chuckanut Mountain above Puget Sound in Whatcom County.
ID Number:2014.49.006.018.0050
Date:1958