Team of horses and laborers operating a combined harvester and thresher on the Haskins Brothers farmland near Almira, Washington in Lincoln County. The wind guard on the rear of the combine keeps air from upsetting the threshing (separation) process and stores the chaff from the grain. Photograph by W.F. Mitchell, Almira, Washington, c. 1908. 

Sacks of grain (consisting of 70,000 bushels of wheat) stacked at Richard J. Stephens' warehouse in Almira, Washington in Lincoln County. Stephens also owned a warehouse in the unincorporated community of Govan, Washington. Photograph c. 1908.

Teams of horses hitched to a threshing combine on the Robert Gunning ranch near Davenport, Washington. The wind guard on the rear of the combine keeps air from upsetting the threshing (separation) process and stores the chaff from the grain. Photograph by Paige, c. 1908.

Sacks of grain await shipment at Davenport, Washington, where more than a million bushels of wheat were exported in 1901 and as many as 15,000 and 20,000 bushels were produced in one season. Davenport is the county seat of Lincoln County in what the Coast magazine, called part of the "Big Bend Wheat Country" of Eastern Washington. Photograph c. 1902.

Laborers in a sheep shearing corral owned by Lloyd and McKerlie near Ellensburg, Washington. Ellensburg is located in Kittitas County where thousands of sheep were wintered in the low lands of the south and eastern parts of the county along the Columbia and Yakima Rivers. Sheep were normally shorn in the springtime when its heavy fleece would not be needed to keep the animal warm. Photograph by Paultzke, Otto W., Ellensburg, c. 1908.

Wheat field on the Alfred Leach ranch in the Gallatin Valley, Montana. Photograph by Schlechten, c. 1908.

Overhead perspective of F. G. Monroe ranch workers branding cattle three and a half miles Southwest of Sprague, Washington. Photograph by T.T. Richardson, c. 1908.

Farm near Pullman, Washington, in Whitman County. Pullman in 1904 had a population of more than 1,200, not including students of the state agricultural college. Photograph by W.E. Hudson, Pullman, Washington, c. 1904.

Steam plow on John Hoffman's farm in Eureka Flats, near Waitsburg in Walla Walla County, Washington. Hoffman, a German immigrant, owned 8,000 total acres of wheat producing farmland in Walla Walla County before retiring in 1903 at the age of 51. Photograph by the Holt Manufacturing Company, Stockton, California, c. 1903. 

A herd of Jersey cattle grazing in a fenced pasture in Lewis County. Photograph by George W. Gordon, c. 1909.

The Wilson House beside Lake Sutherland in the Olympic Mountains, about 17 miles west of Port Angeles, Washington. Photograph by Thomas, c. 1907.

Two farm laborers picking apples on orchards owned by Mrs. Victor Dorris in North Yakima, Washington. Photograph c. 1909.

Wheat warehouses in Ritzville, Washington with two teams of horses hitched to wagons for transporting the sacked wheat. Ritzville exported 1,856 cars of wheat and 563 cars of flour between 1901 to 1902. Photograph c. 1903.

Text from photo: "The old homestead." A group of four pose with their horses outside a small wooden house and wooden cellar with a soil roof in Eastern Washington. Photograph c. 1900. 

The 18 acre Billy Turner Ranch orchards in Wenatchee Valley, overlooking the town of Wenatchee, Washington. The Turner Ranch contained 15 acres of orchards that averaged 90 trees to the acre which produced apples, peaches, pears, apricots and prunes. Photograph by B. C Collier, c. 1908.

Orchard land in Wenatchee Valley, Washington. Photograph by J. D. Wheeler, c. 1908.

Ella Lazinka at the first Round-Up, Pendleton, Oregon, 1910. Lazinka took 14 minutes, and nine and a half seconds to run the three day relay at one mile each day, and won the first relay against noted cowgirl Bertha Blancett. Photograph by W. S. Bowman September, 1910.

Ella Lazinka on horseback holding a trophy for the relay race at the 1910 Round-Up in Pendleton, Oregon. Lazinka won first place for the first two years of the competition and retired in her third year due to an accident which injured her leg. Photograph by W. S. Bowman September, 1910.

Cowboys assembled for a steer roping contest. The 1910 Round-Up was the first annual event and drew 7,000 attendees. Text from photo: "Cow boys ready for the steer roping contest. The Round-Up. Pendleton, OR." Photograph by W. S. Bowman, September, 1910.

Cowboy Buffalo Vernon wrestling a steer at the Round-Up rodeo event in Pendleton, Oregon, 1910. The following year, steer wrestling or, "bulldogging," became an official event at the Pendleton Round-Up. Photograph by W. S. Bowman, September, 1910.

Inter-Island Telephone Company agent W.H. McCrary's estate on San Juan Island, near Friday Harbor. Photograph c. 1903.

A house and barn on Lopez Island. Lopez Island spans 30 square miles and produced crops of grain, hay and orchard fruit. Photograph c. 1903.

Three children standing in a field of oats near Richardson on Lopez Island. Photograph 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.