• View of downtown Tacoma looking towards Mount Rainier; Northern Pacific Headquarters and Old City Hall in foreground. circa 1905.
• Printed on front: Gateway to the City of Destiny - Tacoma, Wash.

• Message: Don't you wish you were one of the young ladies walking down Pacific Ave? - DE
• Addressee: Miss Bessie J.(?) Wade, 28 Hancock St., Boston, Mass.

• Pacific Avenue in downtown Tacoma, bustling with activity at night. circa 1907.
• Printed on front: Pacific Avenue by Night, Tacoma, Wash.

Printed on back: Tacoma, Washington. In left center is the County-City Building and in the right background a portion of Commencement Bay, one of the finest natural harbors in the World. Tacoma has long been recognized as the Gateway to both Mt. Rainier and the Olympic Peninsula, America's last primitive frontier.

• View of downtown Tacoma from McKinley Park. circa 1910.
• Printed on front: View of Tacoma, Wash. from McKinley Park.

• View of downtown Tacoma with the original Carnegie Library in the lower left corner, and Mount Rainier in the distance. circa 1911.
• Printed on front: Mount Tacoma and part of City of Tacoma.

• Photograph of Svenningsen's Berry Farm, located at 4415 No. 10th Street. circa 1915.
• Printed on front: C-Svenningsen's-Berry-Farm Tacoma.

• Photograph of tree lined North I Street, with street car lines visible. (No street car lines ran on North J street.). circa 1905.
• Printed on front: North "J" Street Tacoma, Wash.

• Message: January the 7th, 1910 Dear Mrs. Thorsen, This is my and Arthurs birthday. I am 50 isn't that afull old. Please get me one of those cakes of (always young) for me. Send it with James he is coming down Sunday. Goldie has got twin genes isn't it afful. Love from Mr. Nilson
• Addressee: Mrs. Harry Thorsen, Billings, Mont. 207 So. 31. Str.

• Message: 7/14/07 Dearest Mama-Kale-Nita and Hill arrived OK and I am so happy. Many thanks for the candy-Love and a big hug for you and Trix Emma
• Addressee: Mrs. A. Niles, 1335 Webber St., Alameda, Cal.

• 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. circa 1908.
• Printed on front: Gateway to the City, Tacoma, Wash.

• Message: Tacoma, Wash. 6-4-08 Dear friend: Were you in town all day the 30th? How did you enjoy the celebration? The battleships looked fine. Didn't they? How are you getting along? I am going to try to call the next time I come out home. Lovingly, Myrtle E. Price (957 Tac. Ave.,)
• Addressee: Miss May Chase, Des Moines, Wash.

• Night view of downtown Tacoma, with banner proclaiming, "You'll Like Tacoma" high above Pacific Avenue. circa 1910.
• Printed on front: You'll Like Tacoma 1140-Pacific Avenue at Night, Tacoma, Washington

• Aerial view of downtown Tacoma. circa 1945.
• Printed on front: Part of Business District and River Bridges Tacoma, Wash.

• Mount Rainier and the Cascade Range in the distance, Tacoma and waterways in the forefront. circa 1907.
• Printed on front: Mount Tacoma and part of City and Harbor of Tacoma, Washington.

• Artist's rendering of part of downtownTacoma and Mount Rainier, with the Puyallup River winding throughout. circa 1930.
• Printed on front: Mt. Tacoma and part of city, Tacoma, Wash.

• This vertical lift bridge, dedicated in February 1913, was originally called the 11th Street Bridge. It was officially renamed the Murray Morgan Bridge in 1997 for the noted Tacoma historian and author. circa 1913.
• Printed on front: New Lift Bridge, 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. circa 1910.
• Printed on front: Gateway to the city, Tacoma, Washington

• Bustling Pacific Avenue business district. The Peoples Store, lower right, was built in 1895. The Berlin Building, just north across 11th street, was built in 1892 and demolished in 1919. Old City Hall in upper left corner. circa 1910.
• Printed on front: Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, the City Hall at the End of the Street.

Printed on back: Business Section--Tacoma---Mt. Rainier in background. Towering man-made mountains, the skyscrapers in the foreground, provide dramatic contrast to nature's mountain looming in the background. Dominating a harbor listed by the United State as one of the five best in the world, Tacoma is the lumber capitol of America, railroad, steamship and highway center, famous for its efficient municipal government, low cost of living, pure soft water supplied from artesian wells and mountain rivers. Since 1841 when the region was first explored, the peacetime population of the Tacoma metropolitan area has grown to 156,000.

• Picture taken just minutes before "Galloping Gertie" began breaking apart. The car on the bridge belongs to Tacoma News Tribune News Editor Leonard Coatsworth. circa 1940.
• Printed on front: Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Looking west from easterly pier, 10:45 am - 11/7/40.