The Toledo Public School building in Toledo, Washington located in Lewis County, south of Chehalis. The school employed four teachers, maintained ten grades and was equipped with a library containing 1,000 volumes. Photograph c. 1909. 

The Westminster Presbyterian Church in Chehalis, Washington, located in Lewis County. The church was originally organized in 1855 and incorporated in 1857 before this building was dedicated in 1908, which remains active and extant. Photograph by Drummond Studio, c. 1909.

People standing outside of the Pioneer Drug Company on the H.H. Allen Block in North Yakima, Washington, located in Yakima County. Built in 1887, the building has Italianate features such as decorative brackets, tall, arched windows and elaborate window crowns along the side of the building. Photograph c. 1907. 

A horse drawn float decorated with American flags which won first prize in the Pullman Washington Fourth of July parade, in front of sponsor A. B. Baker and Company, which sold Studebaker carriages and agricultural machinery. The false front's of the building and a sign incorporating a fleur de lis is visible. Photograph by Artopho Studio, c. 1906. 

The Spokane & Inland Empire Railroad Co. and Land Department offices at the Spokane Terminal Building, in Spokane, Washington. The Spokane & Inland Empire Railroad Co. (aka Inland Empire System) incorporated in 1906 and operated over 200 miles of track radiating from Spokane. Photograph c. 1907.

People waiting outside the Canadian Pacific Railway Station at Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan in Canada. This is the second iteration of the station, built in 1898 from locally acquired stone and brick and outfitted with “solid oak furniture and upholstered patent leather chairs.” The Canadian Pacific Railway remains a transcontinental carrier operating in Canada and the United States. Photograph by Cameron, Agnes Deans, c. 1910. 

The Coffman, Dobson and Company Bank Building and W.E. Bishop, H.A. Langhorne and G.L. Thacker law offices in Chehalis, Washington, located in Lewis County. N.B. Coffman and Charles H. Allen established the bank in 1884 and eventually changed the name to Coffman, Dobson & Co., Bankers Inc., in 1904. Photograph by Drummond Studio, c. 1909.

The Coffman, Dobson and Company Bank Building, Chehalis, Washington. This is the same brick building as WIL (F) 202. This view of the bank building shows a pharmacy, advertised as both Coffman Drug Store (with two entrances) and Pheasant Pharmacy, on the first floor. A piano store adjoins the pharmacy at right and doctors' offices are above. Photograph by Drummond Studio, c. 1909.

The Safe Deposit Building at 218 4th Ave. in Olympia, Washington, located in Thurston County. The two-story reinforced concrete building was completed in 1908 and designed by Millard Lemon and Henry Mallory. The sidewalks next to the building were made of concrete as well, part of the fifty blocks of cement sidewalks laid by the city in its downtown business district over the past year. Photograph c. 1909. 

Machinery for the construction of the Tieton Canal in Naches, Washington, located in Yakima County. The work was part of the government's Reclamation Service to establish irrigation services in the area. Two-foot long sections of steel reinforced concrete were winched up hillsides, creating a 12 mile long canal. The first water deliveries were made in May of 1910 to the 28,000-acre district. Photograph c. 1907.

A team of horses with a wagon full of milk bottles and goods outside of the Harry Painter General Merchandise Store in Naches, Washington, located in Yakima Valley at the foot of Mount Clemens. Naches was founded on the completion of the North Yakima and Valley Railroad in 1907 and officially incorporated in 1922, following local merchant Lewis Smith being elected mayor. Photograph c. 1907.

The Eagle Furniture Company, Hotel Barker and Ernst Hardware Company at 514-18 Pike St. in Seattle, Washington. The Ernst Hardware Company was established in 1889 by Charles c. Ernst, renamed Ernst Brothers in 1902 and incorporated in 1907. The store expanded to 10,000 square feet with warehouses of combined floor space totaling 13,000 square feet. Ernst was headed by F.A. Ernst as president, Charles c. Ernst as vice-president and Wm. F. Eckert as secretary. Photograph by Webster & Stevens, c. 1909.

Grade school in Marysville, Washington, c. 1904. Marysville, north of Everett, had a growing population of about 1,200 c. 1904. Eight teachers were employed in their schools where promising students were able to achieve an eighth grade certificate. Here one teacher stands beside her pupils, most of them appearing to be of elementary school age. Photograph c. 1904.

The Governor's Mansion under construction in Olympia, Washington, located in Thurston County. The red brick, Georgian nineteen-room residence was designed by Tacoma architects Russell & Babcock at a cost of $35,000. While the structure was remodeled and enlarged in 1974, it remains the Washington State Governor residence. Photograph c. 1908. 

The Olympia Hotel on Main between 7th and 8th Streets in Olympia, Washington, located in Thurston County. The four-storied Victorian structure was built in 1889 at a cost of $100,000. The hotel advertised itself as "Headquarters for Commercial Men" with "Fine Sample Rooms." It was destroyed by fire in 1904. Photograph c. 1904.

The head of a stag is mounted over the large fireplace of Antlers Lodge on the shores of Lake Cushman, Washington. In 1925 the lodge was burned to the ground in a planned blaze. It is now under 160 feet of water in the expanded Lake Cushman. Photograph by L.F. Murdock (Seattle) c. 1904.

This home at 1711 Elm Street in Sumner was added to the National Register in October of 1984. It was built in 1889 for the Herbert Williams family by John Driskill, contractor. The home was purchased by Adolph and Helene Loncke circa 1900. Decades later it was transformed into the Manor House Restaurant and in 2000, the Sleighbells Christmas Shoppe & Cafe. Photograph by M.D. True (Puyallup) c. 1906.

Portrait of a child from Coeur d'Alene nation, whose aboriginal territory spans more than 5 million acres of today's central Washington, Idaho and Montana. Photograph by J.A. Rockford Brockman, Washington, c. 1906.

Portrait of Yakima person, known by some as "Indian Nancy," who lived in a tepee with her husband "Blind Toby" on Water Street in Ellensburg, Washington, located in Whatcom County. Nancy had worked for a number of Ellensburg women, died about six years after this picture was taken and is buried in Toppenish, Washington. Photograph by Otto W. Pautzke, c. 1905. 

Portrait of Chief Moses of the Sinkiuse-Columbia nation, an inland division of the Salishan peoples. Photograph by Otto W. Pautzke, c. 1905.

A horse drawn float carrying a 19 member "Cowgirl Band" at the inaugural 1910 Pendleton Round-up. The band are dressed in uniforms consisting of wide-brimmed hats, white scarves, buttoned jackets and long skirts. Photograph by W. S. Bowman, c. 1910.

Portrait of Seattle banker Jacob Furth. Born in Bohemia (today's Czech Republic) in 1840, Mr. Furth came to California as a teenager and opened a general merchandise store in Colusa before moving to Seattle in 1882, where he and others organized Puget Sound National Bank. Furth was cashier, receiving/paying teller, and bookkeeper before becoming president of the bank in 1893. Furth was the largest stockholder when his bank later merged with Seattle National Bank. Besides his banking career, Furth organized the California Land & Stock Co. in 1884, which owned a 14,000-acre farm in Lincoln County and he built and operated urban and interurban electric lines, becoming president of the Seattle Electric Co. and Puget Sound Electric Railway. He was a trustee of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce for 24 years and was an active Mason. Mr. Furth passed away on June 2, 1914 in Seattle, aged 73. Photograph c. 1892.

Portrait of Joaquin Miller (born Cincinnatus Hiner Miller in 1837) was an Oregon writer and poet who later achieved fame as the "Poet of the Sierras." Miller is wearing a fringed buckskin jacket, fringed pants, gun holster, and a white beard and handlebar mustache. Joaquin Miller worked in Oregon as a newspaper editor and judge before moving to California in 1870. After touring Europe, Miller returned to California in 1883 and settled in Oakland, his last home, where an elementary school and park are named after him. Photograph by Major Thomas Leander (Lee) Moorhouse, c. 1910. 

Everett & Monte Cristo Railway Company train near Tunnel #4 along the Stillaguamish River canyon. The Everett & Monte Cristo Railway Co. was incorporated in 1892 and was a common carrier of mine and timber cargo. Photograph by Kirk, c. 1900. 

Forest area nine miles from Port Angeles, Washington. Photograph by S.G. Morse, Fulmer's Studio, Port Angeles, Washington, c. 1906.

Two loggers from the Thomas Bordeaux company pose in a deep cut in a standing tree in the Black Hills of Thurston County, Washington beside a whipsaw. Photograph by Jeffers Studio, c. 1909. 

Two loggers posing on springboard planks felling a tree with pictured axes and a whipsaw in Grays Harbor, Washington. 

Fishermen emptying nets of salmon into the Michigan steamer at the Shultz & Gross trap near Roche Harbor, Washington. Photograph c. 1903.

The Puget Mill Company sawmill in Port Gamble, Washington. Photograph taken June 14, 1900.

Makah Native American halibut fishers on Neah Bay, c. 1906. Photograph by S. E. Morse, Port Angeles, Washington, c. 1906.