Laborers outside The Olympia Oyster Company warehouse and shipping department at Horr's Dock, West 4th & Tilton in Olympia, Washington, located in Thurston County. The company was owned by W.H. Kneeland and was the largest oyster company in Washington state, controlled one-third of the oyster beds on the Puget Sound and shipped to all parts of the Pacific Northwest, including Canada and Alaska. Other competing Oyster businesses at his time included J.J. Brenner Oyster Co., the Capital City Oyster Co., and the Olympia Packing Co. Photograph c. 1909. 

The Pacific Lutheran Seminary, formerly the Olympia Collegiate Institute, on Second Avenue in Olympia, Washington, located in Thurston County. The seminary was established by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1907 as an educational facility, primarily directed towards training ministers. After the seminary was damaged by fire in 1914, the church merged the Olympia school with the new Pacific Lutheran College in Tacoma. Photograph c. 1909.

This is a view of the one-story Cloud Cap Inn located on the northeast shoulder of Oregon's Mt. Hood. Cables are visible that were used to tie down the inn, a necessary measure due to fierce winds. Photograph c. 1907.

E.D. Warbass holding open a rough hewn wooden gate to his property, named Idlewild on Friday Harbor in the San Juan Islands. According to the Coast Magazine article where this photograph was used, the Idlewild home was originally built by General George Pickett during the 1859 San Juan Pig War as an American camp against British forces. Photograph c. 1904.

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.

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. 

The Bicycle Tree, located a mile south of the Snohomish on property owned by Abel Johnson. An old-growth cedar with a circumference of 48 feet and an archway carved through it on commission of the Snohomish Bicycle Club The tree was extant until December 1927. Photograph c. 1906.

Unidentified man poses in front of lumber at the Puget Mill Company in Port Gamble, Washington. Photograph likely February 10, 1900, in reference to TPL item WIL (B)-046.

Forest near Bordeaux in the Black Hills of Thurston County, Washington, named after logging company owners Thomas and Joseph Bordeaux. Photograph by Morse, S. G., c. 1909.

The Chehalis River near Adna, Washington, six miles west of Chehalis on the South Bend branch of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Photograph c. 1909.

Three men stand timbers loaded onto railway cars at the Adna Mill Company in Adna, Washington, six miles west of Chehalis on the South Bend branch of the Northern Pacific Railroad. The Adna Mill had an average capacity of 60,000 feet of lumber and 830,000 shingles per day and employed 90 men. Photograph c. 1909.

Logging crew for the Adna Mill Company working with a steam powered locomotive. The Adna Mill had an average capacity of 60,000 feet of lumber and 830,000 shingles per day and employed 90 men. Photograph c. 1909.

Two workers for the Stillwater Lumber Co. posing next to felled lumber (9 ft. 2 in. diameter and 9 ft. 8 in. diameter). The Stillwater Lumber Co. at Little Falls had a daily capacity of 100,000 feet of lumber and employed over one hundred workers. Photograph c. 1909.

Splash dam created by the Lytle Logging and Mercantile Company near Hoquiam, Washington on the Elk River. A splash dam is a temporary wooden structure used to raise the water level of streams to float logs downstream. The company employed over 250 men and produced 45 million feet of logs in 1902. Photograph c. 1903.

Logger for the Frank H. Lamb Timber Company posing in forest four miles from Montesano, Washington. Photograph by J. F. Ford, Portland, OR, c. 1903.

Panoramic photo of the Stanwood Lumber Co. in Stanwood, Washington, located in Snohomish County. Photograph c. 1903.

Fishermen emptying nets of salmon into the Michigan steamer at the Shultz & Gross trap near Roche Harbor, Washington. 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. 

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

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

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.

ca. 1908. A scene in the Big Bend, circa 1908. Threshing 3 miles south of Waterville, Washington. This area of north central Washington State was a wheat farming community. The fertile soil, dry summers and heavy snows in winter produced abundant crops. During the past season circa 1907, however, wheat ran from twelve to thirty bushels per acre, a lighter yield than normal but as prices remained good, the farmer did not lose in the long run. The town of Waterville became the Douglas County seat in 1887, and according to its Chamber of Commerce, farming remains a mainstay of the local economy. The Wilhelm Collection (Coast Magazine September 1908, p. 153-157-article on Waterville) TPL-4273

Photographer: Witter, Alfred S., Waterville

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.

Elevated perspective looking east on Pike Street from Second Avenue in Seattle, Washington. Visible buildings include The Pike, Kodak's, The American, The Union Bakery, The Peoples Savings Bank and the MacDougall & Southwick Company. Photograph by Webster & Stevens, c. 1909.

Oblique aerial perspective of Cashmere, Washington located in Chelan County, with Cascade Mountains at the horizon. Cashmere is located in the Wenatchee Valley between Leavenworth and Wenatchee. Photograph by O.C. Jordan, c. 1908.

The Manufactures and Oriental Buildings in the Court of Honor section of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle, Washington. More than three million visitors attended the Exposition during the summer and fall of 1909. Photograph c. 1909. 

The Sedro-Woolley Iron Works offices in Sedro-Woolley, Washington located in Skagit County, where the company's foundry and machine shop was also located. At the time, Sedro-Woolley had a population then of about 4,000. Photograph by Marsh, c. 1908.

The Hotel Mabton in Mabton, Washington located in Yakima County, owned by Frank Martin. Mabton formed due a Northern Pacific Railway line through the area and was incorporated in November 1905. Photograph c. 1909.

This is the Toledo Hotel, in Toledo, Washington. The man on the sidewalk near the hotel entrance is possibly J.L. Steinberger, its proprietor. The two women on the second floor balcony are probably hotel staff. Toledo in 1909 was a thriving little community with two hotels, including the wood-framed Toledo Hotel. It is located on the banks of the Cowlitz River. Photograph c. 1909.

Fourth of July street parade from a building's vantage point on 1st Avenue between Cherry and James St. in Seattle, Washington. Right to left, the Pacific Coast Seamship Company, the Lowman and Hanford Stationary and Printing Company (draped in in American flag) and the Tremont Buildings are visible. Photograph c. 1907.