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| Title | Mountaineers Club rescue demonstration at Lincoln Park, Seattle, June 26, 1948 |
| Photographer | Davis, Harvey
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1948 |
| Caption | In 1906, University of Washington professor Edmund Meany and others who enjoyed the outdoors founded The Mountaineers. Since then, the club has sponsored a wide variety of activities, from wilderness skiing and backcountry camping to folk dancing and environmental protection. This 1948 photo shows a group of Mountaineers demonstrating rescue techniques in West Seattle's Camp Long. |
| Notes | Handwritten on sleeve: Mountaineering, with Earl St. Aubin, Herman Warnstedt, Wolf Bauer, Ray Rigg, Bob Walker, Jim Whittaker, Louis Whittaker.
Caption by MOHAI staff.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): June 28, 1948. |
| Subjects | Rescue work--Washington (State)--Seattle; Workshops (Adult education)--Washington (State)--Seattle; Mountaineering--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
West Seattle (Seattle, Wash.)
Lincoln Park (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | PI26834 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 safety film negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from print made from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
