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| Title | Looking down on trail near the base of Gibraltar Rock, Mount Rainier, July 27, 1897 |
| Photographer | Waite, Alvin H. (Alvin Henry), 1862-1929 |
| Date | 1897 |
| Notes | Notes in inventory: On Mount Tacoma. Between Nisqually and Cowlitz Glaciers, Paradise Park. The trail near base of Gibraltar Rock. Altitude about 11750 feet.
Gibralar is a massive, square rock cliff, elevation 12, 679 ft., directly southeast of Mt. Rainier's summit in a saddle at the head of Ingraham Glacier. It was named by Maj. E. S. Ingraham and members of his exploring party in 1888 for its resemblance to Gibraltar at the west entrance to Mediterranean Sea.
PH Coll 291.273 |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Rock formations--Washington (State)
Trails & path--Washington (State)
Icicles--Washington (State)
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Gibraltar Rock (Wash.)
Rainier, Mount (Wash.)
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Mount Rainier |
| Digital Collection | Alvin H. Waite Photographs
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| Order Number | WAT134 |
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Alvin H. Waite Photograph Collection. PH Coll 291
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| Object Type | Photograph |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 150 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2003. |
