Ella Lazinka at the first Round-Up, Pendleton, Oregon, 1910. Lazinka took 14 minutes, and nine and a half seconds to run the three day relay at one mile each day, and won the first relay against noted cowgirl Bertha Blancett. Photograph by W. S. Bowman September, 1910.
The 18 acre Billy Turner Ranch orchards in Wenatchee Valley, overlooking the town of Wenatchee, Washington. The Turner Ranch contained 15 acres of orchards that averaged 90 trees to the acre which produced apples, peaches, pears, apricots and prunes. Photograph by B. C Collier, c. 1908.
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.
Wheat warehouses in Ritzville, Washington with two teams of horses hitched to wagons for transporting the sacked wheat. Ritzville exported 1,856 cars of wheat and 563 cars of flour between 1901 to 1902. Photograph c. 1903.
Steam plow on John Hoffman's farm in Eureka Flats, near Waitsburg in Walla Walla County, Washington. Hoffman, a German immigrant, owned 8,000 total acres of wheat producing farmland in Walla Walla County before retiring in 1903 at the age of 51. Photograph by the Holt Manufacturing Company, Stockton, California, c. 1903.
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.
Overhead perspective of F. G. Monroe ranch workers branding cattle three and a half miles Southwest of Sprague, Washington. Photograph by T.T. Richardson, c. 1908.
Laborers in a sheep shearing corral owned by Lloyd and McKerlie near Ellensburg, Washington. Ellensburg is located in Kittitas County where thousands of sheep were wintered in the low lands of the south and eastern parts of the county along the Columbia and Yakima Rivers. Sheep were normally shorn in the springtime when its heavy fleece would not be needed to keep the animal warm. Photograph by Paultzke, Otto W., Ellensburg, c. 1908.
Sacks of grain await shipment at Davenport, Washington, where more than a million bushels of wheat were exported in 1901 and as many as 15,000 and 20,000 bushels were produced in one season. Davenport is the county seat of Lincoln County in what the Coast magazine, called part of the "Big Bend Wheat Country" of Eastern Washington. Photograph c. 1902.
Teams of horses hitched to a threshing combine on the Robert Gunning ranch near Davenport, Washington. The wind guard on the rear of the combine keeps air from upsetting the threshing (separation) process and stores the chaff from the grain. Photograph by Paige, c. 1908.
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.
Team of horses and laborers operating a combined harvester and thresher on the Haskins Brothers farmland near Almira, Washington in Lincoln County. The wind guard on the rear of the combine keeps air from upsetting the threshing (separation) process and stores the chaff from the grain. Photograph by W.F. Mitchell, Almira, Washington, c. 1908.
Business district in Shelton, Washington, displaying signs for The Bear Saloon, Bicycle Repairing, a Restaurant and Bakery, and The Shelton Market. Shelton was named after David Shelton, a delegate to the Territorial Legislature, and originally called Sheltonville. Shelton became the county seat of Mason County in 1888 and was incorporated in 1890. Photograph c. 1902.
Prefontaine (Place) Building under construction in 1909 at Third & Yesler Way in Seattle. The building was named after Seattle's first resident priest, Father Francis Xavier Prefontaine (1838-1909) who arrived in Seattle in 1867 and built the city's first Roman Catholic church, Our Lady of Good Help, at Third & Washington. The Prefontaine Building was completed in 1909, the year of Fr. Prefontaine's death and remains extant. Photograph by Wilhelm, H.L., c. 1909.
Waterfront street in the town of Friday Harbor, Washington in the San Juan Islands featuring signs for Saloon Best 5 Cent Beers, Office Pacific Steam Laundry and Soda Fountain with fruits, candies and ice cream. By 1903, Friday Harbor was the commercial center and county seat of San Juan County. Photograph c. 1903.
Elevated perspective of Friday Harbor looking east. By 1903, Friday Harbor was the commercial center and county seat of San Juan County. Photograph c. 1904.
Pennsylvania Avenue in Cle Elum, Washington located in Kittitas County, featuring a restaurant, a wagon and building for the Northwestern Improvement Company, the state's largest producers of coal. Though signs are unreadable from photograph Central Hotel is visible next to the restaurant, followed by the Reed House, built by Cle Elum founder, Walter J. Reed. Photograph by Pautzke, Otto W., c. 1895.
Front Street in Port Angeles, Washington, located in Clallam County, featuring a Tailor, Palace Bakery, Paper and Paint, Laundry, City Hotel and Bar, Gem Restaurant, Matthew's Pharmacy, Port Angeles Grocery and Fulmer's Studio. Port Angeles was incorporated in 1890 and is the county seat of Clallam County. It is located on the shores of the Strait of Juan de Fuca near the Olympic Mountains. Photograph by C.E. Fulmer, c. 1907.
Third and Union intersection in Seattle, Washington looking east. The Federal Building is at right, followed by the Post-Intelligencer Building and the White Building. The Antlers Hotel is midway down the block at left with the Crary Building in the distance. Photograph by Webster & Stevens, c. 1909.
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.
L.K. Munson general merchandise store in Shelton, Washington, advertising Crescent Bicycles, guns, cigars, stationary and mattresses. Photograph c. 1907.
The Richardson Store and Post Office in Lopez Island on Richardson Bay. First settled by George Richardson in 1873, the post office was established in 1891, replaced in 1928, destroyed by fire in 1990 and not rebuilt. Photograph c. 1904.
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.