- Item
- 1900
Part of General Photograph Collection
ca. 1900. Tacoma grain elevators. The Tacoma Warehouse & Elevator Co. grain dock and Elevator B are in the foreground of this circa 1900 photograph. A masted sailing ship is docked there waiting for a shipment of flour. In the background is Elevator A, operated by Cardin & Bibb. The Sperry Flour Co. would be built on the site of Tacoma Warehouse & Elevator in 1905. Sperry Flour would be purchased later by General Mills, Inc.
Warehouses--Tacoma--1900-1910; Grain elevators--Tacoma--1900-1910; Shipping--Tacoma--1900-1910; Sailing ships--Tacoma--1900-1910; Piers & wharves--Tacoma--1900-1910; Waterfronts--Tacoma--1900-1910;