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English: Snow fields and snow blocks, looking northeast over Emmons Glacier, August 2, 1895   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
Alvin H. Waite  (1862–1929)  wikidata:Q42319410
 
Alvin H. Waite
Description American photographer
Date of birth/death 1862 Edit this at Wikidata 1929 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Iowa Seattle
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q42319410
Title
English: Snow fields and snow blocks, looking northeast over Emmons Glacier, August 2, 1895
Description
English: Notes in inventory: Paradise Park, Mount Tacoma. Snow fields and snow blocks. Looking N.E. over White River Glacier .

The largest glacier in the southern 48 states is on the northeast slope of Mt. Rainier extending five and a half miles northeast from the summit to headwaters of the White River is part of an enormous glacial mass which is divided into the Winthrop and Emmons glaciers by Steamboat Prow. It was named for Samuel F. Emmons, geologist and mountaineer, who made the second successful ascent of the mountain in 1870. Other names that have been used are White, Blaine, Winthrop and White River Glaciers .

PH Coll 291.175
  • Subjects (LCTGM): Snow--Washington (State); Glaciers--Washington (State); Mountains--Washington (State)
  • Subjects (LCSH): Emmons Glacier (Wash.); Rainier, Mount (Wash.)
Depicted place
English: United States--Washington (State)--Mount Rainier--Emmons Glacier
Date 2 August 1895
date QS:P571,+1895-08-02T00:00:00Z/11
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
University of Washington: Special Collections
Accession number
66
Source
English: Alvin H. Waite Photographs Collection
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The author died in 1929, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.
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WAT056

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