Preliminary Guide to the Lawrence Denny Lindsley Papers
1870-1973, undated

Biographical Note

Lawrence Denny Lindsley was born in 1878. He was the grandson of Seattle pioneer David Denny. Lindsley took up photography at an early age and combined it with work as a miner, hunter, guide and student of nature. Charter member of the Mountaineers, 1907; official photographer for the Great Northern Railroad in Glacier National Park, 1916. Worked for Asahel Curtis in 1910 at the Roman Studios and later for Edward Curtis. Spent 9 years at Lake Chelan where he took extensive photographs of the North Cascades. Worked as a wilderness guide for the Mountaineers and figured prominently as Silent Lawry, the guide in Mary Roberts Rinehart's book, "Tenting Tonight."

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Accession no. 2179-001, Lawrence Denny Lindsley papers, 1973

Accession no. 2179-002, Lawrence Denny Lindsley papers, 1870-1972

Accession no. 2179-003, Lawrence Denny Lindsley papers, undated

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