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Narada Falls, Paradise River, Mount Rainier, July 30, 1896
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| Title | Narada Falls, Paradise River, Mount Rainier, July 30, 1896 |
| Photographer | Waite, Alvin H. (Alvin Henry), 1862-1929 |
| Date | 1896 |
| Notes | Notes in inventory: Paradise Park, Mount Tacoma. Narada Falls. Paradise River. Height of falls about 150 ft. Copyrighted 1896.
Narada Falls is a 168-ft. waterfall, one of the Mount Rainier National Park's most impressive sights. It is on the south central slope of the mountain in the Paradise River, 15 miles by highway from Nisqually entrance of the park. On August 24, 1893, the falls were given this name by Arthur F. Knight of Tacoma, for the Narada branch of the Theosophical Society of Tacoma. This Hindu word has the means uncontaminated or pure. An alternate name was Cushman Falls.
PH Coll 291.221 |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Waterfalls--Washington (State)
Rivers--Washington (State)
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Narada Falls (Wash.)
Rainier, Mount (Wash.)
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Narada Falls |
| Digital Collection | Alvin H. Waite Photographs
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| Order Number | WAT093 |
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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. |
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