ca. 1908. A scene in the Big Bend, circa 1908. Threshing 3 miles south of Waterville, Washington. This area of north central Washington State was a wheat farming community. The fertile soil, dry summers and heavy snows in winter produced abundant crops. During the past season circa 1907, however, wheat ran from twelve to thirty bushels per acre, a lighter yield than normal but as prices remained good, the farmer did not lose in the long run. The town of Waterville became the Douglas County seat in 1887, and according to its Chamber of Commerce, farming remains a mainstay of the local economy. The Wilhelm Collection (Coast Magazine September 1908, p. 153-157-article on Waterville) TPL-4273

Photographer: Witter, Alfred S., Waterville

A group of children wading in Green Lake, located in Seattle, Washington. Green Lake was donated to the City of Seattle by the State of Washington in 1905 and included in the Olmsted Brothers' comprehensive parks plan, undergoing major changes over the subsequent 15 years. Photograph c. 1903. 

A Family on walking path in Kinnear Park, located in the Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. The park is named after the land's original owner, George Kinnear, who had moved to Seattle from Illinois in 1874, promoted the first wagon road through Snoqualmie Pass and organized the Immigration Board. Kinnear sold the park's wooded land to the City of Seattle in 1889 for $1.00. Photograph c. 1906.

Portrait of Yakima person, known by some as "Indian Nancy," who lived in a tepee with her husband "Blind Toby" on Water Street in Ellensburg, Washington, located in Whatcom County. Nancy had worked for a number of Ellensburg women, died about six years after this picture was taken and is buried in Toppenish, Washington. Photograph by Otto W. Pautzke, c. 1905. 

Native Americans "Iron Paddle" and Ninkolacy More photographed in Bonners Ferry, Idaho by Dr. T.A. Bishop, c. 1906.

Portrait of a Native American, known by some as "Blind Toby," who lived in a tepee with his wife "Indian Nancy" on Water Street in Ellensburg, Washington, located in Whatcom County where he raised horses. Photograph by Otto W. Pautzke, c. 1905.

Leva Brockman of Rockford, Idaho, standing on a dirt road along the banks of the St. Joe River holding a rifle. Photograph by J. A. Brockman, c. 1904.

Mother and child, possibly of the Klallam nation, photographed in Clallum County. The baby is being rocked in a secured wooden cradle hung from a branch. The mother is sitting on a mat next to a basket with a creased fabric background. Photograph by E.C. Fulmer, c. 1905.

Puyallup hop picker with child secured in a wooden cradle inside a lean to shelter, beside a basket in the process of being woven. Photograph by M. D. True, c. 1906.

The view of Mount St. Helens from Spirit Lake. Photograph by E.M. Strait (Castle Rock, Wash.) c. 1903.

Chinese dock worker carrying six 50 lb. bags of flour made in the United States. He was just one of hundreds of laborers who had met an incoming ship at Shanghai and were employed to unload cargo. Photograph c. 1907.

E.D. Warbass holding open a rough hewn wooden gate to his property, named Idlewild on Friday Harbor in the San Juan Islands. According to the Coast Magazine article where this photograph was used, the Idlewild home was originally built by General George Pickett during the 1859 San Juan Pig War as an American camp against British forces. Photograph c. 1904.

Bust of Princess Angeline, or Kikisoblu, the daughter of Chief Seattle, created by local sculptor James A. Wehn, who would later create the statues of Chief Seattle in Tilikum Place and Pioneer Square. The Coast Magazine stated the bust was first modeled in clay and then cast by the "lost wax art process,", creating only five casts which were subsequently destroyed. Princess Angeline, a familiar and well documented figure, died in Seattle in 1896. Photograph c. 1906.

A Native American family of ten pose outside of their camp on the Green River near Auburn, Washington with horses and dogs. A hammock, tent and wooden enclosure covered in conifer branches are visible. Photograph by Jensen, c. 1909. 

Home converted from a cedar stump near Everett, Washington. Photograph c. 1907.

The Antlers lodge on the shores of Lake Cushman, Washington. The lodge was accessible by steamers from Seattle destined for Hood's Canal and then by stagecoach. It would burn in a planned blaze in November of 1925 that was intended to clear the Cushman Basin. Photograph by L.F. Murdock (Seattle) c. 1904.

Residence of H. C. Gillam in Centralia, Washington. Photograph by George W. Gordon, c. 1909.

Portrait of "Indian Nancy" by Ellensburg photographer Otto W. Pautzke. The passage of time shows on the lined visage of Yakama Indian, "Nancy" (no last name provided). Believed to be over 90 years old, Nancy and her husband "Blind Toby" lived in a tepee on Water Street in Ellensburg. Nancy had worked for a number of Ellensburg women while Toby, a non-Yakama Indian, raised horses. She died about six years after this picture was taken and is buried in Toppenish, Washington. The Wilhelm Collection. Photograph by Otto W. Pautzke, c. 1905.

A Cayuse person identified by photographer Major Lee Moorhouse as "Anna Kash-Kash," (Speckled Bird) wearing a beaded buckskin dress, belt, choker, large shell earrings and several metal bracelets. Moorhouse recorded that Anna was a graduate of the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania where she also taught, before returning to live with her parents on the Umatilla Reservation. Photograph by Major Thomas Leander (Lee) Moorhouse, c. 1908.

This home at 1711 Elm Street in Sumner was added to the National Register in October of 1984. It was built in 1889 for the Herbert Williams family by John Driskill, contractor. The home was purchased by Adolph and Helene Loncke circa 1900. Decades later it was transformed into the Manor House Restaurant and in 2000, the Sleighbells Christmas Shoppe & Cafe. Photograph by M.D. True (Puyallup) c. 1906.

Portrait of a child from Coeur d'Alene nation, whose aboriginal territory spans more than 5 million acres of today's central Washington, Idaho and Montana. Photograph by J.A. Rockford Brockman, Washington, c. 1906.

Portrait of Yakima person, known by some as "Indian Nancy," who lived in a tepee with her husband "Blind Toby" on Water Street in Ellensburg, Washington, located in Whatcom County. Nancy had worked for a number of Ellensburg women, died about six years after this picture was taken and is buried in Toppenish, Washington. Photograph by Otto W. Pautzke, c. 1905. 

Portrait of Chief Moses of the Sinkiuse-Columbia nation, an inland division of the Salishan peoples. Photograph by Otto W. Pautzke, c. 1905.

A horse drawn float carrying a 19 member "Cowgirl Band" at the inaugural 1910 Pendleton Round-up. The band are dressed in uniforms consisting of wide-brimmed hats, white scarves, buttoned jackets and long skirts. Photograph by W. S. Bowman, c. 1910.

Portrait of Seattle banker Jacob Furth. Born in Bohemia (today's Czech Republic) in 1840, Mr. Furth came to California as a teenager and opened a general merchandise store in Colusa before moving to Seattle in 1882, where he and others organized Puget Sound National Bank. Furth was cashier, receiving/paying teller, and bookkeeper before becoming president of the bank in 1893. Furth was the largest stockholder when his bank later merged with Seattle National Bank. Besides his banking career, Furth organized the California Land & Stock Co. in 1884, which owned a 14,000-acre farm in Lincoln County and he built and operated urban and interurban electric lines, becoming president of the Seattle Electric Co. and Puget Sound Electric Railway. He was a trustee of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce for 24 years and was an active Mason. Mr. Furth passed away on June 2, 1914 in Seattle, aged 73. Photograph c. 1892.

Portrait of Joaquin Miller (born Cincinnatus Hiner Miller in 1837) was an Oregon writer and poet who later achieved fame as the "Poet of the Sierras." Miller is wearing a fringed buckskin jacket, fringed pants, gun holster, and a white beard and handlebar mustache. Joaquin Miller worked in Oregon as a newspaper editor and judge before moving to California in 1870. After touring Europe, Miller returned to California in 1883 and settled in Oakland, his last home, where an elementary school and park are named after him. Photograph by Major Thomas Leander (Lee) Moorhouse, c. 1910. 

The Chehalis United Methodist Church in Chehalis, Washington, located in Lewis County on Market Boulevard. Advertisements for Mail Pouch tobacco and Wrigley's Spearmint Gum as well as partially cleared land are visible. Photograph by Drummond Studio, c. 1909.

Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church at the corner of 5th and Washington Avenue in Bremerton, Washington, located in Kitsap County. The church was built in 1901 in a ceremony officiated by Bishop Edward J. O'Dea and active before being replaced in 1921. 

The Staeger Brothers Book Store and offices of an inactive post office, Dr. C.D. Powell, the Chehalis Bee-Nugget Newspaper and the Sterling Lumber Company, in Chehalis, Washington located in Lewis County. The Staeger Brothers store features advertisements for Kodaks, music, art goods and stationary. To the right of the building, there is a kiosk for Paramount Studio, featuring a series of photo portraits. Photograph by Drummond Studio, c. 1909. 

Program for the dedication of St. Boniface's Church in Uniontown, Washington, located in Whitman County. Construction of the church began in 1893 and was finally completed in 1905 under the direction of Father J.A. Faust, who is pictured on the right. Photograph c. 1907. This is an alternate layout of the same images used in WIL (F)-177B.