Train crossing the Puyallup River. Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power completed the line called the Puget Sound Electric Railway between Tacoma and Seattle in 1902. Seattle-Tacoma interurban rail service ended on December 30, 1928, after the construction was completed on Highway 99.
Printed on front: P. S. Electric Ry. Bridge, Puyallup, Wash.
Message: Puy. Wn. ? '09 Dear Mabel ? your nice card rec'd & as usual I am slow in answering. Elnora is alright now, Vernon is cutting teeth, many thanks for his card. Do come out for the fair also your Mother it will cost you more after next week. Come early maybe I can go with you. Ernest has been at Portland & Salem. With love--Mabel. Have you heard from Bertie?
Addressee: Miss Mabel Stambaugh 4101 So. J Street Tacoma, Wash.
Built in 1892, this became the Old City Hall when the County-City Building opened in 1959. This building is on the City, State and National Historic Registries.
Printed on front: City Hall & Grounds, TACOMA, Wash.
Elks Temple at 565 Broadway, built in 1915. Listed as part of the Old City Hall Historic District on the Tacoma Register of Historic Places, State Register of Historic Places, and National Register. Undergoing renovation currently after years of disrepair, this building is scheduled to reopen as a hotel, spa, brewpub and music venue in Spring 2012.
Message: Aug 13, 1923 Hello Fred, How are you? Fine I hope. I'm in the best of health and am having lots of fun. Milvell is fine, to. And so is all the rest of old town. Your friend, Evelyn C. 2320 No. 28th St. "Launch Vega"
Addressee: Mr. Fred Frederickson Neah Bay, Washington.
At the southern end of Hood Canal, Skokomish was established in 1858. In 1890 it became Union City, and in 1895 was shortened to Union, after the Union Pacific Railroad decided not to make the town a terminus.
On the southwestern shore of Port Townsend Bay on the Olympic Peninsula, Port Hadlock is in northeastern Jefferson County. It is named for former mill superintendent Samuel Hadlock who platted the town in 1886.
Message: Forest Wash April 3-1909 Sir Since I ordered the orchestra music waltz, Mr. Marshall sent, & got the same. If ? yu'll send me others it will be all right. Rainbow ? ?, "Orchestra sabina waltz for Piano" Mrs. E. Bernow
Addressee: Taylor Gardner Co Music dealers Tacoma Wash
Gate-like rock formations on the coast of Washington State. These are part of the Point of the Arches group, a Washington Coast headland on the Olympic Peninsula in Clallam County.
Printed on front: The Spectacle Arches, Washington.
Old Tacoma City Hall Building with the Northern Pacific Raiload Headquarters Building at right. Built in 1893, Old City Hall is one of the city's most notable landmarks.
Message: Spanaway Aug 8th/08 Dear friend, Pardon me for not sending you a card before. We are quite well and hope this may find you all the same. We had a fine trip and enjoying ourselves The weather is fine. how is every body in good old Mich have heard nothing from home since we left home. I guess they have all forgotten us. do not know just when we shall start home likely not before week after next Let us hear from you and ? this with care from Th? & Ra?
Artist's sketch of the Portland Exposition's famous Forestry Building- the world's largest "log cabin". Constructed of unhewn logs, this building was destroyed by fire in 1964.
Printed on front: Foresty Building Lewis & Clark Exposition Portland, Oregon 1905
