A Photograph Album Of A Camping And Hiking Trip Into Klickitat County, A Voyage On The Bailey Gatzert Down The Columbia River Gorge, And A Visit To The Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition For "Iowa Day," July - August 1909

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Publication: Compiler unknown, 1909, N P

An exceptionally well-composed and annotated photograph travel album with 61 original photographs of which 59 are captioned neatly below in white ink along with the negative number. The album compiles a camping and hiking trip into Klickitat County, voyage on the Bailey Gatzert down the Columbia River gorge, and finally a visit to the Alaska- Yukon-Pacific Exposition for "Iowa Day." July - August 1909. 118 pages. photographs are 3 1/4" x 5" and 3 3/4" x 4 1/4." Each photograph is neatly captioned and dated and mounted in a Housh Album. This nicely arranged album records a trip into Klickitat County for camping and a visit to a logging camp; climbing Wind Mountain for views of Mt. Adams; voyaging down the Columbia River and eventually reaching Seattle for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. A very skilled amateur photographer treats us to scenic views of Mt. Hood; Klickitat Canyon; Klickitat River Gorge; a logging operation on the Klickitat River with scenes of the bridge over the Big Muddy in Hellroaring Canyon and one of a bridge made from a single giant Yellow Pine log. The album continues with views of the steamship landing at Lyle, Washington; the Steamer Bailey Gatzert on the Columbia River and subsequent travel down the river with a stop on Memaloose Island. Photographs capture the indigenous remains on the island at "Old Indian Burying Ground" with Major Victor Trefitt's grave monument in the background. A 19th century memoir by Ira Rowland wrote that "it was the Indian custom to wrap their dead and leave them on Memaloose Island. It was half covered with skulls and bones...the stench of the dead was terrific...hundred of skulls staring out of empty eyes." Trevitt had requested to be buried on the Island as he considered the Native Americans to be "the most honest people in the world." Most of the Pacific Northwest Indigenous remains were later relocated to the Native American cemetery across from the Columbia at The Dallas before the Bonneville Dam waters covered much of the Island. The photographer and party sailed on the Bailey Gatzert to the Cascade Locks, with views of the steamship entering the Locks, followed by views of Cape Horn; the Cape Horn Railroad Tunnel; the Seattle, Portland & Spokane Railroad bridge over the Columbia River at Vancouver, Washington and Fort Vancouver. After a short stop in Portland, with views of the Portland harbor on the Willamette, Suspension Bridge at Oregon City and the Forestry Building from the 1905 Lewis and Clark Exposition, they head to Seattle. The last ten images are devoted to Seattle including their arrival in Seattle on the waterfront, with views of the Galbraith Dock and steamships tied up; a view of Fort Lawton, Washington, now in the Magnolia neighborhood of Seattle, followed by a series of views at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition August 12, 1909 - "Iowa Day." The photographs of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition capture the "Cascades" waterfall and the Government Building; Manufacturers Building' and the fountain Forestry; Building Idaho Building' Spokane County Building and crowds of Iowans filling the area, including a huge crowd in front of the Alaska Building and the Hawaii Building. The two additional photographs capture different Brass Era automobiles, one a four- passenger sedan parked in front of the Sacramento, California Capitol Building and the other a seven-passenger 1910 Mitchell Sedan at a Western ranch yard. A well-presented clean and neat album in solid very good condition.