• Unusual aluminum postcard, with a common view of ships waiting to be loaded with cargo on the front of the card. Aluminum cards had to be mailed in glassine envelopes, so often no postmark would appear on the card itself.
• Printed on front: Tacoma's Magnificent Waterfront

• Message: Merry Christmas to you all. Eugene Moore
• Addressee: Leslie G. Moore Detroit City Minnesota

Circa 1919.

Circa 1909.

• 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.