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Waterfall in creek near Lake Whatcom, July 12, 1895
Waterfall in creek near Lake Whatcom, July 12, 1895
TitleWaterfall in creek near Lake Whatcom, July 12, 1895
PhotographerWaite, Alvin H. (Alvin Henry), 1862-1929
Date1895
NotesNotes in inventory: New Whatcom, Wash. Waterfall in creek about 4 or 5 miles from Lake Whatcom.

This may be Tinling Falls.

An early town on Bellingham Bay formed by the merger of Whatcom and Sehome in 1891, assisted by the coming of a large number of settlers from Kansas was named New Whatcom. This town later combined with Fairhaven to form the city of Bellingham. Whatcom is an Indian word meaning "noisy rumbling water" referring to Whatcom Falls.

PH Coll 291.164
Subjects (LCTGM)Waterfalls--Washington (State)
Streams--Washington (State)
Subjects (LCSH)Whatcom County (Wash.)
Location DepictedUnited States--Washington (State)--Whatcom County
Digital CollectionAlvin H. Waite Photographs
Order NumberWAT046
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RepositoryUniversity of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
Repository CollectionAlvin H. Waite Photograph Collection. PH Coll 291
Object TypePhotograph
Digital Reproduction InformationScanned 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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