ca. 1908. This winter view of the Northern Pacific Shops in South Tacoma dates from sometime before 1910. Started in 1890 as the Edison Car Shops, the complex of buildings at 5200 So. Proctor became the Northern Pacific Shops in 1895. The NP Shops were responsible for all repair work on Northern Pacific cars and locomotives west of the Mississippi. A horse-drawn sleigh can be seen by the entrance to the complex, as a line of workers leaves the plant.
ca. 1908. Northern Pacific shops in South Tacoma.
ca. 1908. Northern Pacific Railroad workers at South Tacoma shops. Northern Pacific steam locomotive #3013 sitting on track in train yard. Same as BROWNING-081.
ca. 1908. Northern Pacific steam locomotive # 1537 sitting in train yard at Northern Pacific shops in South Tacoma.
ca. 1908. Union Pacific Railroad steam locomotive No. 512, crew and several men.
ca. 1908. The top of a broken telephone pole hangs from the phone lines over a rail yard. Photo was probably taken at the Northern Pacific shops in South Tacoma.
ca. 1908. Northern Pacific boxcars in the "halfmoon yard". The Northern Pacific headquarters building and Tacoma's Old City Hall can be seen in the background above the yard.
ca. 1908. One of the streetcars of the South Tacoma Line of the Tacoma Railway & Power Co. stops in front of the C. S. Enger Hardware Store in South Tacoma at 5401 South Union (later South Tacoma Way). The Enger Hardware Store occupied a succession of buildings in the south end starting in the 1890s.
ca. 1908. Steam locomotive No. 10 probably on the Tacoma & Eastern Railroad outside Mineral, Washington.
John Winston's Mill. Ten people (5 of them women) sit outside a lumber mill building.Two horses in harness stand next to the building.
ca. 1908. Bicycle shop and Storage business. The bicycle shop is probably the Amzie D. Browning Bicycle & General Repairing business. The bicycle shop has an advertisment painted on it for the Tacoma Baking Co. Print is somewhat out of focus.
ca. 1908. View of the top floor of the Northern Pacific Hotel, at 5201 So. Union Ave. Behind the hotel are other buildings in South Tacoma.
ca. 1908. Halvar Folkestad men's furnishings store at 5223 So. Union Ave. in South Tacoma. This address is now on South Tacoma Way.
ca. 1910. G. W. O'Brien, contractor, and men laying pipe in South Tacoma.
ca. 1908. Men digging a ditch along what is now the 5200 block of South Tacoma Way - probably laying water pipe. Many building fronts can be seen in the background including: A. E. Thompson & Sons and Smith Hardware Co.
ca. 1908. Garret W. O'Brien, contractor, and men laying pipe in South Tacoma.
ca. 1908. Garret W. O'Brien, contractor, and men laying pipe in South Tacoma.
ca. 1908. Several men, one with a bicycle, by a corner building in the 5200 block of what is now South Tacoma Way. The corner building has a sign above the door that says "Rooms." Street looks like it is dirt, not paved.
ca. 1908. A street scene in South Tacoma. A horse and buggy approach a Funiture and Hardware store on the right side of the picture. An early model automobile is parked in front of a building on the other side. There is a banner hanging above the street.
ca. 1908. Electron power plant on the Puyallup River, near Orting.
ca. 1908. Water rushing though power generator at Electron Dam.
ca. 1910. Cannon emplacement probably at Fort Casey,Whidbey Island, Washington.
ca. 1908. View of Bremerton Navy Yard. Several navy warships can be seen in harbor.
ca. 1908. Battleships in what is probably Commencement Bay - off Tacoma with the tree covered cliffs of Browns Point in the background.
ca. 1908. Biplane caught as a silhouette against a cloudy sky.
ca. 1908. A young boy, with two ribbons pinned to the lapel of his coat, leans against the railing of the fence that encloses the racetrack at the Western Washington Fairgounds in Puyallup. Several exhibition tents and the grandstand can be seen in the background.
ca. 1908. A bear is behind the iron bars of a cage - probably at the zoo in Point Defiance Park in Tacoma.
ca. 1908. A hearse with the name Piper painted under the driver's side window. The hearse is probably owned by the Piper Undertaking Co. which is listed in theTacoma City Directory of 1910 at 5034 So. Union Avenue, George W. Piper proprietor.
ca. 1908. A woman, young man, and boy stand in front of an unfinished house with dormers. The boy holds a hammer, the woman a hatchet, and the young man a saw and a carpenters square. Photograph listed as "Kirks residence."
ca. 1908. A woman with a small child and a dog stands in front of a two story house. The child, who has a bow in her hair, appears to be the same girl that is in BROWNING-132.