c. 1907 Lowman & Hanford Postcard (No. 1316) - View of Lake Chelan-Sawtooth Mountains, Washington State, USA

            No. 1316. LAKE CHELAN AND SAW TOOTH MTS., WASHINGTON - Lowman & Hanford Co., Publishers, Seattle

The Lake Chelan-Sawtooth Wilderness is a 153,057-acre protected wilderness area located within the Okanogan and Wenatchee national forests in Washington State. The wilderness borders Lake Chelan National Recreation Area and North Cascades National Park and the Stephen Mather Wilderness to the northwest. It was designated with the passage of the Washington Wilderness Act of 1984, on lands occupied by the old Chelan Division of the Washington Forest Reserve, now part of both the Okanogan and Wenatchee national forests.

The mountain towers over Lake Chelan with precipitous walls. From Stehekin it does indeed look like a Castle. The peak also rises a whopping 7,000 feet from the shores of Lake Chelan in less than 2.5 horizontal miles. The three creeks draining its flanks--Castle Creek on the west and north but still empyting into the lake, Canyon Creek on the northeast, and Bridal Veil Creek on the east--become an array of cataracts in spring. 
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In 1882, James Lowman and Clarence Hanford joined forces to found Lowman & Hanford Stationery and Printing Company. After losing their original building in the Great Fire of 1889, the partners reopened the business at 616 First Avenue. There, they expanded into publishing, bookbinding and book selling, and even sold photographic equipment and other supplies to people leaving for the gold fields. In 1902-3, the firm built a large new building next door, on the corner of First Avenue and Cherry Street.

James Lowman and Clarence Hanford were business and civic leaders in early Seattle, each with ties to Seattle's pioneer settlers. James D. Lowman (1856-1947) was born in Maryland and arrived in Seattle in 1877 at the invitation of his uncle, founding Seattle settler and sawmill owner Henry Yesler. Lowman worked as assistant wharf master on Yesler's wharf for four years, using his savings to purchase a half interest in the book store owned by W.H. Pumphrey in 1881, and buying out his partner two years later.

Clarence Hanford (1857-1920) was a Seattle native, the youngest son of Washington Territory pioneers. When Hanford was 13, he began learning the printing trade at the office of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which was published by his older brother, Thaddeus Hanford, eventually becoming foreman of the printing department. Hanford later bought out the job-printing department and established a job-printing office with a partner, J.H. McClair, in 1879, buying out McClair’s interest in 1881.

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