According to Emporis.com, this was the first of Seattle's early skyscrapers to be demolished by implosion in the late 1970s. Wells Fargo Center currently occupies the site. The American Savings Bank was organized in Seattle in 1902, and was eventually acquired by the Washington Mutual group. circa 1910.
Printed on front: American Savings Bank and Trust Co. Seattle, Washington.
Seattle High School, later known briefly as Washington High School and far longer as Broadway High School, opened in 1902. The main building featured here was demolished in 1974, except for the auditorium that was built as an addition in 1911. circa 1908.
Printed on front: High School, Seattle, Washington.
Home of John Robinson Jackson (one of the first settlers north of the Columbia River) and the first courthouse in what would soon become Washington Territory. Also known as the Jackson Prairie Courthouse, the first recorded event- Sheriff Jackson's presentation of a tax assessment roll- took place October 4, 1847. The building was located in Lewis County, near present-day Toledo, Washington.
Printed on front: This is the first court house in Washington.
Main business street of Kent taken during the Cornucopia Festival. Once known as the "Lettuce Capital of the World", Kent's original "Lettuce Festival", begun in 1934, evolved into the "Cornucopia Festival" in 1946 to represent the more diversified crops grown in the area.
Promotional monthly calendar for a shoe store, bearing a painted scene from the Hudson River. The calendar was apparently issued in monthly installments.
Printed on front: Palisades of the Hudson. Just a reminder from W. T. Harper Fine Footwear Kent, Wash. There are twelve of these beautiful scenes. One will be sent you each month. Keep them all, and please read our message on the back of each card.
Printed on back: Taken at Pendleton, Oregon; typical dress of early days, but does not represent the subject, who never wore such, always preferring the plain farmer's garb; 76 years old (1906); migrated to Oregon in 1852; has lived there (Washington) ever since; farmer; sole organizer of the Oregon Trail monument expedition; erected twenty monuments; now season of 1907, en route to Washington, D.C., advocating the building of a natioanal road over the Oregon Trail as a monument to the pioneers, to be called Pioneer Way.
Chief Sealth sitting with hands clasped and eyes closed. Sealth was the leader of the Suquamish and Duwamish tribes, and encouraged peace between his people and immigrants arriving in Seattle in the 1850's. The postcard is a reproduction of the only known photograph of Sealth, taken in 1864 by Seattle photographer E. M. Sammis.
Printed on front: Chief Seattle after whom the city of Seattle is named.
Princess Angeline- or Kikisoblu, as she was known in her tribe- was the eldest daughter of Chief Seattle. Ignoring orders to report to a reservation in 1855, she lived the remainder of her life in a shack on the Seattle waterfront, doing laundry and selling baskets. She was befriended and looked after by Catherine Maynard, a well-known Seattle pioneer.
Close-up of dog Jim with oxen pulling a covered wagon across a bridge. Jim was the faithful companion of Washington Territory pioneer Ezra Meeker, and accompanied him on his two overland re-crossings of the Oregon Trail in 1906 and 1910. Jim survived being pitched over a fence by an ox named Dave, a fight with a wolf, an encounter with a rattlesnake, and being run over by a trolley. He later disappeared in a train station near Brooklyn, NY, but was returned when Meeker offered a reward of 20 dollars. "Money could not buy that dog", he explained. "He was an integral part of the expedition."
Printed on back: Oregon Trail Monument Expedition Post Card These two realistic views graphically record the work of recovering the "Lost Trail," and preserving its identity, better than volumes of written testimony; 1906.
Printed on back: Oregon Trail Monument Expedition Post Card Born Dec. 29, 1830; migrated to the Oregon country summer of 1852; farmer; father of the hop industry of Washington Territory (now State); pioneer in Exporting Pacific Coast hops; spent four winters in London; and five years in searching out and recovering the lost Oregon Trail; never sick in bed for sixty years; always lived in the open air; never drank intoxicants nor experienced a rheumatic pain; active and hopes to live to be a hundred years old, Good Night.
Washington pioneer Ezra Meeker's oxen, covered wagon, and dog Jim on a bridge during a trip across the Old Oregon Trail. Meeker, an original traveler of the trail in the 1850's, re-crossed it in 1906 and again in 1910 in efforts to raise funds for installing historic monuments along the route.
Printed on front: On the Bridge, Burnt River, Oregon.
The Smith Tower was built by firearms and typewriter magnate Lyman Cornelius Smith. He planned to build a 14-story structure, but was convinced by his son that a skyscraper would be better for business. Construction began in 1910, and Opening Day was July 3, 1914. At 522 feet from curb to top finial, the tower was the tallest structure west of the Mississippi until 1931, and the tallest on the West Coast until the Space Needle came along in 1962. In this photo, the building appears to be in its final stages of construction.
Printed on front: 42 Story L. C. Smith Bldg. Seattle.
Side-view of the Art Deco style ferry plying the waters on a Seattle-Bremerton run. The boat was first put into service in San Francisco in 1926 under the name "Peralta". After a fire, what remained of the boat was sold to Captain Alex Peabody of the Puget Sound Naval Company (AKA the Blackball Line) who remodelled it and re-christened it the Kalakala, a word meaning "flying bird" in native Chinook. The streamlined design can be attributed to Mrs. Peabody, who viewed the first set of blueprints and suggested, "It ought to be more round!" The Kalakala was a faithful and classy workhorse from 1935 to 1967. When larger, swifter boats made it obsolete, it then served as a crab and shrimp plant in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. In the 1990's, it was brought back into the Puget Sound area for possible future renovation.
