ca. 1890. This portrait of Frank C. Ross was taken in 1891, the year he sold the Tacoma and Lake City Railroad to the Union Pacific Railroad for $153,000. His top hat, double breasted Prince Albert, light overcoat, boutonniere and mutton chop whiskers were typical dress for an affluent businessman of the period. The Tacoma railroad operated from North 25th Street & Union to Lake City. Union Pacific proposed to extend the line from Portland to the Canadian border in exchange for concessions from Tacoma, such as city right of way, land for terminals and waterfrontage for warehouses and docks for their Pacific Mail ships. The Union Pacific sold the Tacoma line to John S. Baker and Robert Wingate whose attempts to keep the railroad afloat failed. They stopped operations in 1897. Mr. Ross celebrated his 80th birthday on March 3, 1938. He was still championing the development of the Tideflats that he had proposed 50 years before. Copy made for T.Times columnist E. T. Short, June of 1936. (T. Times 6/11/1936, pg. 5; T. Times 3/21/1938, pg. 5)

Ross, Frank C.; Tacoma & Lake City Railroad (Tacoma); Men--Clothing & dress--Tacoma--1890-1900;

Boatbuilding class setting up backbone of Windance, Raft Island.L to R: Lenny Viola, Tim Chambers, George Chambers, ?, Patrick Chapman, Mark Klarich, Rob Cramblett, Dean ?, Tom Mankin, ?, ?, ?, Dan Hubley, Greg ?,

Boatbuilding class setting up backbone of Windance, Raft Island.L to R: Lenny Viola, Tim Chambers, George Chambers, ?, Patrick Chapman, Mark Klarich, Rob Cramblett, Dean ?, Tom Mankin, ?, ?, ?, Dan Hubley, Greg ?,

ca. 1910. Copy of a customer's photograph of the North Pacific Bank Note Company staff, circa 1910, in front of company's office at 1012 1/2 A St. Immediately to the right is J.N. Barrett, printer. (1005 A St.) (WSHS)

North Pacific Bank Note Co. (Tacoma);

ca. 1900. Copy of image Series 2215 image 1 pinned to a board: North Pacific Bank Note Company staff. Group of men in front of building. Copy of customer's photograph. (filed with Argentum)

North Pacific Bank Note Co. (Tacoma);

Boatbuilding class setting up backbone of Windance, Raft Island. Trumbly running at left. Boatbuilding class setting up backbone of Windance, Raft Island. Trumbly running at left.

Boatbuilding class setting up backbone of Windance, Raft Island.Trumbly at left.

Boatbuilding class setting up backbone of Windance, Raft Island.Trumbly at left.

Boatbuilding class setting up backbone of Windance, Raft Island.Trumbly at left.

Boatbuilding class setting up backbone of Windance, Raft Island.Trumbly at left.

Copy photograph of man with goatee, perhaps, Henry Villard who was prominent in Tacoma's Northern Pacific Railroad history. (WSHS)

Portraits;

ca. 1931. Alice Watson's gardens. Top floor of a house can be seen through trees. (Argentum, filed with H)

Gardens--Tacoma; Watson, Alice--Homes & haunts; Walters, Augustus--Homes & haunts;

Plugging planking of T-38.

Backbone of Windance partly set up.

ca. 1934. Illustrated Historical Map of Washington up to 1889. Designed and Drawn by Ralph Bishop of Tacoma.

Maps;

Part of Windance's backbone; student Greg ? in foreground.

Copy of Birds-eye view of Camp Ford, Texas. Image includes: South view, West view, Confederate Hospital, Headquarters of Col. R. R. Brown, and Capt. Braunfelter's cabin. Camp Ford started out as a training camp for Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. Toward the end of the war, it had become the largest Confederate prison camp for Union soldiers west of the Mississippi. The Camp was located in northeast Texas, near Tyler. (WSHS)

Camp Ford (Texas);

Backbone of Windance partly set up.

Backbone of Windance partly set up.

Etta Trumbly on deck of the Trumblys' A-frame home, Raft Island.

Etta Trumbly on deck of the Trumblys' A-frame home, Raft Island.

Erecting Windance backbone. The two military veterans, Tom Mankin & Dan Hubley, standing off to left.

Bates boat building class erecting Windance backbone, 2nd part.

Bates boat building class erecting Windance backbone, 2nd part.

Bates boat building class erecting Windance backbone, 2nd part.

Bates boat building class erecting Windance backbone, 2nd part.(Dan Hubley right foreground).

ca. 1931. Mrs. Alice Rector Watson's gardens. A young boy plays by the lily pond on property originally developed by Mrs. Watson's grandfather, Augustus Walters, in the 1880s. (WSHS)

Gardens--Tacoma; Watson, Alice--Homes & haunts; Boys--Tacoma--1930-1940;

Plugging decking of T-38 (George Chambers looking toward camera, Armen Melkonian behind him.)

Joe Trumbly filming erection of Windance backbone.

Joe Trumbly filming erection of Windance backbone.