Road and trail program for the Mount Rainier National Park
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One photo album, with text, submitted by the Rainier National Park Advisory Board to the National Park Service in 1934. The purpose of the album was to demonstrate the need for additional roads to the park. The photographs were made by Asahel Curtis, who also was the Chairman of the Board. The photographs depict scenic views around the park, including roads leading to the park. Some of the photographs are panoramas with two ore photographs attached to each other.
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| Barcode | Status | Material Type | CallNumber | Availability |
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| 37413314919251 | Restricted | Northwest Room Closed Stack | NWC-127 |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Curtis, Asahel, |d 1874-1941. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Road and trail program for the Mount Rainier National Park / |c submitted by the Rainier National Park Advisory Board. |
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| 520 | 0 | |a One photo album, with text, submitted by the Rainier National Park Advisory Board to the National Park Service in 1934. The purpose of the album was to demonstrate the need for additional roads to the park. The photographs were made by Asahel Curtis, who also was the Chairman of the Board. The photographs depict scenic views around the park, including roads leading to the park. Some of the photographs are panoramas with two ore photographs attached to each other. | |
| 506 | |a Archival, non-circulating item. To view, contact the Inland Northwest Special Collections at 509-444-5338 or INSC@spokanelibrary.org. | ||
| 541 | |a Photo album was found in the Northwest Room collection. | ||
| 545 | 0 | |a Asahel Curtis (1874-1941) was a professional photographer in Seattle for forty years. The younger brother of photographer Edward S. Curtis, Asahel joined his brother in his photography studio around 1892. In 1897, he went to Alaska to photograph the Klondike gold rush. After returning from Alaska, he served as staff photographer for the Seattle Times and the Seattle Post Intelligencer for a short time. He started his own company, the Asahel Curtis Photo Company in 1920. He lived and worked in Seattle but had interests throughout Washington, including developing an apple orchard near Yakima. He served on the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, the State Tax Commission, and the Washington Irrigation Institute. He was also an avid mountain climber and served on the Rainier National Park advisory committee. Curtis died in 1941 at the age of sixty-seven. | |
| 555 | 0 | |a Print version of finding aid available in library. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Mount Rainier National Park (Wash.) |v Pictorial works. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Roads |z Washington (State) | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Photographs. | |
| 710 | 2 | |a Rainier National Park Advisory Board. | |
| 998 | |a 2015.04.15 | ||
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