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Item
Title
A71928-3
Date(s)
- 1952-12-26 (Creation)
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Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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Mount Rainier looms over the sprawling campus of the Rainier State School in Buckley in December of1952. This aerial photograph, taken at a height of 800-1000 feet, shows the large institution and the rural landscape that surrounded it. The Rainier School, which housed mentally and physically handicapped children, experienced severe overcrowding during the late 1940's to early 1950's.
Aerial photographs; Western State Custodial School (Buckley); Institutional care--Buckley; Children--Health & welfare; Rainier, Mount (Wash.);