Photo Album Compiled by a Young Woman Hiking on Mount Rainier

Washington State: Circa 1905. Black photo album binding measuring 7.5 x 5", "Photographs" in gilt to front cover, containing 37 pasted in black and white photos, each 3.75" x 3.75", many accompanied by a manuscript caption on the album leaf. A photo album compiled by an unidentified young woman, documenting an early hiking trip on Mount Rainier. 21 of the photos are landscape shots, showing the mountain, Nisqually Glacier, the Tatoosh Range, and various canyons and streams. Ten of the images, meanwhile, show the woman and her two female companions, including reading the news, writing a letter home, taking a "shower bath" in a waterfall, "Aunt Josephine" crossing a log of a stream, coasting on the snow, and "Leslie" seated on a log. An additional six photos contain subject matter related to the trip--tents, a larger group of hikers at rest, two Asian cooks ("Charley" and "Tuck"), a boat on Puget Sound, and more. Images in very good condition, front hinge of album cracked with first leaf of album nearly detached. Item #12710

Price: $450.00