(WASHINGTON STATE) [Curtis Asahel] Group of photographs of w

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(WASHINGTON STATE.) [Curtis, Asahel.] Group of photographs of what became Olympic National Park and its environs. 15 silver prints, each about 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches on original plain gray card mounts, some with short pencil captions on verso, some initialed "AC" and numbered in negative; condition generally strong, with a few unevenly toned. [Washington, circa 1920s or 1930s?]

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Asahel Curtis (1874-1941) was the brother of famed photographer Edward S. Curtis, and a distinguished landscape photographer in his own right. These photographs show Washington's Mount Olympus, Lake Crescent, and the Strait of Juan de Fuca, with the occasional logger and railroad line interspersed. with--a guide to Mount Rainier National Park issued by the Department of the Interior circa 1918 illustrated with numerous other Asahel Curtis photographs.