• Aerial view of Tacoma encompassing part of the tideflats including the warehouses along the waterfront.
• Printed on front: A Section of the Shopping and Business District, Tacoma, Washington

• Originally constructed as a hotel, it never opened because the structure was damaged by fire in 1898. It was converted for use as Tacoma High School in 1906. The name was changed in 1913 to Stadium High school.
• Printed on front: High School, Tacoma, Washington.

• The Tacoma Totem Pole was built in 1903 by two carvers from Alaska. The pole was originally a 105 foot cedar tree trunk, donated by the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company. Commissioned by William Sheard and Chester Thorne, the Tacoma Totem Pole was known at the time as the largest in the world. The Hotel Tacoma was located at 913 A Street. It was built in 1884, and destroyed by fire in 1935.
• Printed on front: Totem Pole, Tacoma, U.S.A.

• Beautiful manicured lawns, sidewalks and big stately homes are featured in an early view of North Yakima Avenue.
• Printed on front: View on North Yakima Avenue, Tacoma, Washington.

• Broad view of northern downtown Tacoma, with Old City Hall and the Northern Pacific Headquarters to the right, the railyards to the left, and Mount Rainier in the distance.
• Printed on front: Gateway to Tacoma, Washington.

• Fairly common view of downtown Tacoma for the time period, with pedestrians bustling about, and a streetcar and automobiles featured. The Equitable Building, built in 1891 as the Merchants National Bank, and renamed in 1897 is to the left--and the building to the right was demolished in 1920 to make way for the Rust Building.
• Printed on front: Eleventh Street, Tacoma, Washington.

Printed on back: Fifth anniversary Souvenir Card of the Oregon Trail Monument Expedition; left Puyallup Washington on January 29, 1906; erected 27 monuments, inscribed seventeen boulders, and otherwisemarked the Trail on the way; arrived at Missouri River crossing, Oct. 9th; thence drove to Washington City; arrived Nov. 29, 1907; interviewed President Roosevelt; procured introduction of bill in Congress appropriating $50,000 to complete the work; expedition returned home 1908; second trip made 1910; trail located, platted, cost of monumenting estimated; now enroute to Washington City; will there report findings to Congress; estimated number of monuments 700; cost $85,000 ; is forerunner of greater monument to be known as Pioneer Way 2,200 miles along the Oregon Trail; distance driven 8500 miles. Ages: Ezra Meeker 80 years; Mardon 36; Jim 7; Dave 10; Dandy 10; Wagon (in part) 60. Reader, write your Congressman to favor this work; advocate it in the home; the church; lecture halls; streets; its a great work to thus record history, honor the memories of the Winners of the farther west and build up patriotism in the breasts of countless generations to follow. Dayton, Ohio. Jan. 29th, 1911.

• Five photos of markers erected by the Meeker Oregon Trail Monument Expedition, ranging from a simple engraved boulder to large stone pillars. Meeker stands by the monument in Boise, Idaho, which is almost twice his height.
• Printed on front: Oregon Trail Monuments Boise, Idaho First Boulder Marked Pocatello, Idaho Summit Monument, Rocky Mts. Baker City, Ore.

• Ezra Meeker, Washington pioneer and original traveler of the Oregon Trail in 1852, is shown here with his wagon, trusty dog Jim, and a crowd of onlookers as he travels down a street in Indiana. Meeker re-crossed the Old Oregon Trail twice by ox-team and wagon between 1906-1911, raising commemorative markers along the way. This photo was taken during his second journey.
• Printed on front: On the Street, Terre Haute, Ind. 1910.

Printed on back: This faithful dog has been with the expedition from the start. Jim has had more adventures than any other dog living; run over by a trolley car, then again by a heavily loaded truck where the other dog was killed that he was fighting and he nearly so; then hooked over the fence by an irrate cow and again by Dave thrown over a sage brush; then again kicked into the air by a vicious horse and then again tackled by a wolf and finally lost in New York City for three days. Yet ever ready to stand guard over the wagon, never willing to ride while the team is in motion; Jim is indeed a great dog.

• Old Washington pioneer Ezra Meeker, his driver William Mardon, ox team, and covered wagon stand at rest at the side of a road in Boise.
• Printed on front: At Boise, Idaho.

• A montage of photos from Ezra Meeker's two wagon crossings of the Old Oregon Trail between 1906-1912. We see two different views of the ox team and covered wagon, two commemorative markers placed on the trail, and a portrait of a bearded, bespectacled Meeker.
• Printed on front: Ezra Meeker Enroute, On the Plains, 1st Boulder Marked, Summit of Rocky Mts.

Printed on back: Note the two parallel trails in this view and how they come together on the ascending ground; these Trails were four feet deep on the lower levels and near seven on the upper stretch.

Printed on back: These two realistic views graphicaly record the work of recovering the "Lost Trail," and preserving its identity, better than volumes of written testimony; 1906.

• Washington pioneer and Oregon Trail historian Ezra Meeker is shown here with President Teddy Roosevelt and his covered wagon at the end of a cross-country trip from Puyallup, Washington. Meeker underwent this arduous journey by wagon and ox team in efforts to preserve the Old Trail and raise commemorative markers for its pioneers. After reaching what he considered the end (or the beginning, from a pioneer viewpoint) of the Trail in Omaha, Nebraska, Meeker continued on to Washington, D.C. where he requested support for his project from President Roosevelt. Although the president urged Congress to consider a bill appropriating $50,000 for trail preservation, the bill failed. This did not discourage Meeker from tirelessly promoting his cause until his death in 1928.
• Printed on front: President Roosevelt viewing the Team, 1907.

• Ezra Meeker, a Washington pioneer and historian, is shown here with his ox team and covered wagon among a group of onlookers. In an effort to preserve and memorialize the Old Oregon Trail, Meeker took two covered wagon trips back across it in 1906-1908 and 1910-1912. After the first trip, Meeker spent some time in California conducting research on the trail. He briefly returned to Washington when his wife died, but traveled back to California with his wagon and ox team to fulfill a prior commitment to drive in the Pasadena Rose Bowl Parade- an event he knew would be good for publicity. He then embarked on his second re-crossing of the trail, raising funds along the way to erect markers. This photo was probably taken shortly before leaving on his second trek.
• Printed on front: Camp in the Park.

Printed on back: Ontario, California; camp on the park and Euclid Ave., 1910.

Printed on back: 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.

• Printed on back: W. W. Seymour Conservatory More than 17,500 individual panes of glass make up the wings and 72-sided dome of the Seymour Botanical Conservatory. The building was named for benefactor William Winkie Seymour, who also funded a YMCA summer camp that bears his name. Ironically, William Seymour died of a heart attack in the conservatory while planting a section of digitalis with his butler, Allen C. Mason.
• Picture Tacoma Artist's Postcard Project; beautifulangle.com

• Printed on back: Lake Steilacoom in Tacoma, Washington
• Picture Tacoma Artist's Postcard Project; Photo By Judy Wagner

• Printed on back: Beginning in the 1930s, Tacoma became known for the "Tacoma Aroma", a distinctive, acrid odor produced by paper manufacturing on the industrial tide flats. In the late 1990s, Simpson Tacoma Kraft reduced total sulfur emissions.
• Picture Tacoma Artist's Postcard Project; card by johnc

• Printed on back: The Hot Shop Amphitheater, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington This imposing 90' stainless steel cone houses a hot glass studio and accomodates 200 visitors. The furnaces hold 1,000 lbs. of glass at temperatures up to 2,400 degrees.
• Picture Tacoma Artist's Postcard Project; Photography by Sharon Styer, Sharon@sharonstyer.com