Message: Dear Bro: Rec'd your card this morning-hope you find work alright. Mrs. Miller called up the other day & they want you right away but mother did not ask about particulars. How's all we are all fine. I have just come from the store and am at the school house 4:30. Dread the walk home but the roads are splendid now.
Addressee: Mr. Carl Hansen 324 Hall St. Portland, Oregon.
Message: Dear Mother Just a few lines from Mary to let you know we are all well. Florance is still with one I had a postal from Miss Dora love from all M.M.G.
Addressee: Mrs. James Gilles Port Daniel Center Bonaventure Co. Canada, P. Q.
Washington's oldest fruit orchards date back to approximately the mid-1870s. The production of tree fruits is one of the largest industries in Washington state. Final market destinations range from the local grocery stores to national and world-wide export. circa 1917.
Message: Monday 12 o'clock Shipped kidlets a box of plums from Cashmere an another box from Yakima we picked from McNeils Flo's sister Portland tomorrow night then to Forest Grove to see an Uncle, Will call at PO for mail at Portland. Dandy time yesterday.
Addressee: Daisy C. Philbrick Hoquiam, Wash. 610-6
Mendenhall Glacier is a glacier about 12 miles long located in Mendenhall Valley, about 12 miles from downtown Juneau in the southeast area of the U.S. state of Alaska. circa 1930.
Printed on front: Ice cave, Mendenhall Glacier, near Juneau, Alaska
Printed on back: Ice Cave, Mendenhall Glacier Mendenhall Glacier is probably one of the best known glaciers in Alaska on account of its easy accessibility. It is reached by a beautiful highway out of Juneau. A very good idea of the size is obtained by comparing it with the figure of a man standing at the base.
Message: Dear Mother. I wish I was this P.O. Card and was to be with you on the 15th where I know you will all have a fine time. Give my love to all and say I hope to see each and every one of them when I am home, it won't be long now. Lethe.
Addressee: Mrs. Nancy Watson, College View, Neb. Box 87.
Printed on back: The State of Washington Invites-a-Million to the gateway of the Pacific Ocean's famous Olympic Loop. Hoquiam Jaycees In cooperation with the Washington State Advertising Commission, the Junior Chamber of Commerce is inviting a million visitors to enjoy a wonderful vacation in Washington. For more information about beautiful Washington State, write-Washington State Junior Chamber of Commerce Room 37, Transportation Bldg., Olympia, Washington.
The original two-way, four-lane toll bridge was designed by the engineer Homer Hadley and constructed of reinforced concrete in 1940. It sank in a storm on November 25, 1990, while it was undergoing refurbishing & repair. The current bridge was built in 1993. circa 1950.
Printed on front: The pontoon floating bridge over Seattle's Lake Washington
Message: Dear Howard we had a lovely trip nothing happen not even a puncture. My but Tacoma is lovely now lots of people there Grand Ma and Uncle Howard went to a picture show ? Love Nannie
Addressee: Howard Philbrick 610 Sixth St. Hoquiam, Wash.
One of Washington's most popular outdoor recreation areas, this glacier formed body of water has a maximum depth of 1,419 feet which is 340 ft. below sea level. Chelan is the modification of an Indian word meaning "deep water.". circa 1950.
Printed on front: Lake Chelan-85 Miles of fresh water beauty in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State
Printed on back: The State of Washington Invites-a-Million to the Gateway of the Pacific Ocean's famous Olympic Loop. Hoquiam Jaycees In cooperation with the Washington State Advertising Commission, the Junior Chamber of Commerce is inviting a million visitors to enjoy a wonderful vacation in Washington. For more information about beautiful Washington State, write-Washington State Junior Chamber of Commerce Room 27, Transportation Bldg., Olympia, Washington.
Printed on back: The State of Washington Invites-a-Million to the Gateway of the Pacific Ocean's famous Olympic Loop. Hoquiam Jaycees In cooperation with the Washington State Advertising Commission, the Junior Chamber of Commerce is inviting a million visitors to enjoy a wonderful vacation in Washington. For more information about beautiful Washington State, write-Washington State Junior Chamber of Commerce Room 27, Transportation Bldg., Olympia, Washington.
Printed on back: Mitchell's Point Tunnel Beyond Cascade Locks and near Hood River is Mitchell's Point, the old Storm Crest of the Indians, approached by the most daring piece of masonry of the entire highway. Here, as at Crown Point, and in many other places, engineers had to be hung over cliffs with ropes 150 to 200 feet long to blast footing enough to make a survey. The most expensive piece of construction on the highway is Mitchell's Point Tunnel.
Message: Dear Folks-Will leave here at 2:10 PM Fri-Aberdeen about 7:45-so they tell me-Jeanie.
Addressee: Mr. M. Baumert Aberdeen, Wash. Finch Bld.
Printed on back: The State of Washington Ivites-a-Million to the gateway of the Pacific Ocean's famous Olympic Loop. Hoquiam Jaycees In cooperation with the Washington State Advertising Commission, the Junior Chamber of Commerce is inviting a million visitors to enjoy a wonderful vacation in Washington. For more information about beautiful Washington State, write-Washington State Junior Chamber of Commerce Room 27, Transportation Bldg., Olympia, Washington.
This island group extends from the Canadian boundary on the west and north, from the boundaries of Whatcom and Skagit counties on the east, and to the center of the Strait of Juan de Fuca on the south. There are twenty-five major islands and many smaller islands and reefs of which 172 are habitable. The original name of the archipelago was for Lopez de Haro, who discovered the group in 1789. On June 24, 1791, the birth date of San Juan Bautista, Lieut. Eliza re-named the group using the name of that saint. His name has become official. In 1841, the name Navy Archipelago, was given by the Wilkes Expedition, but it never came into common use. circa 1950.
Printed on front: Cruising is a year-round pleasure in the 177 islands of Washington State's San Juan group
