Mount Rainier, Washington
Photograph
Office of War Information
American, 1942–1945
Mount Rainier, Washington
ca. 1945
Gelatin silver print
Image: 3 5/8 × 5 1/2 in. (9.2 × 13.9 cm)
Gift of John and Susan Edwards Harvith, 2011
Inscriptions inscribed in pencil on verso, TC: B
inscribed in pencil on verso, TR: 5 1/8
inscribed in pencil on verso, BL: 6 (?) [illegible]
inscribed in pencil on verso, BRC: 93.5 [circled]
typed on label [detached] on verso, C: FFG. \ 8. Mount Rainier, with its system of glaciers, \ is the outstanding feature of the U.S. national \ park to which it gives its name. The extinct \ volcano, shown here at sunrise, is 14,408 feet \ (4,392 meters) high and it rises 8,000 feet \ (2,400 meters) above the alpine meadows pic- \ tured here. Alpine firs and whitebark pines \ are the timberline trees in the picture.
inscribed in pencil on verso, TR: 5 1/8
inscribed in pencil on verso, BL: 6 (?) [illegible]
inscribed in pencil on verso, BRC: 93.5 [circled]
typed on label [detached] on verso, C: FFG. \ 8. Mount Rainier, with its system of glaciers, \ is the outstanding feature of the U.S. national \ park to which it gives its name. The extinct \ volcano, shown here at sunrise, is 14,408 feet \ (4,392 meters) high and it rises 8,000 feet \ (2,400 meters) above the alpine meadows pic- \ tured here. Alpine firs and whitebark pines \ are the timberline trees in the picture.
