|
| Title | Chalmers cars at the Paradise Inn, Mount Rainier National Park, ca. 1918 |
| Photographer | Webster & Stevens |
| Date | ca. 1918 |
| Caption | In 1915, sixteen years after the creation of Mount Rainier National Park, the National Park Service built a single lane road from Longmire Springs to Paradise Valley. The Paradise Inn was built in 1916 and became a popular destination for automobile trips. A car could leave Seattle or Tacoma after breakfast and eat lunch at the Paradise Inn. Before the automobile and better roads, this trip would have taken at least a full day.
In this photo, taken in about 1918, three Chalmers cars full of tourists park in front of Paradise Inn at Mount Rainier. |
| Subjects | Automobiles; Hotels; National parks & reserves; Paradise Inn (Mount Rainier National Park); Sightseeing |
| Places | Paradise (Wash.); Rainier, Mount (Wash.); Mount Rainier National Park (Wash.); |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1983.10.3065 |
| 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 | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 nitrate negative: b&w; 8 x 10 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original negative using Epson Expression 10000XL as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit grayscale, resized to 700 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS4, JPEG quality measurement 4. |
| Photographer's Reference Number | W&S 65, 374 |
