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| Advertisement | Railroad service to Mount Rainier National Park (1906) |
| Company/Advertising Agency | Tacoma Eastern Railroad |
| Publication Source | Washington magazine, Vol. 2 (1) |
| Publisher | Washington Magazine Publishing Company |
| Publisher Location | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Publication Date | September 1906
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| Advertisement Text | The "Wonderland of the Cascades" - Mount Tacoma and the Rainier National Park reached over the Tacoma Eastern Railroad..."The combination of ice scenery with woodland scenery of the grandest type is to be found nowhere in the old world, unless it be in the Himalayas, and so far as we know, nowhere else on the American continent"...Visitors to the Northwest should not fail to see this indescribable region with its grand volcanic-glacial peak, 14,528 feet high, 32,500 acres of perpetual ice and snow, 15 separate distinct glaciers with yawning crevasses hundreds of feet deep... |
| Contextual Notes | Mount Rainier National Park was dedicated in 1899. At the end of 1904, the Tacoma Eastern railroad route was completed from Tacoma to Ashford. Extensions were later added to stations at Mineral Lake, Tilton, and Ladd.
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| Category | Railroad travel
Nature and the environment
Sports and outdoor activities
Tourism and travel |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Tourism--Washington (State)--Mount Rainier National Park; Railroad travel--Washington (State)--Mount Rainier National Park |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Mount Rainier National Park (Wash.) |
| Geographic Coverage | United States--Washington (State)--Mount Rainier
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| Digital Collection | Early Advertising |
| Digital ID Number | ADV0300 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Pacific Northwest Collection. 979.705 WM |
| Object Type | Advertisement |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original drawing in RGB at 400 dpi, saved in TIFF format, changed to indexed color, enhanced and resized using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm software's JPEG2000 Extension. 2008. |
