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SUSAN-005 Front

  • Five photos of markers erected by the Meeker Oregon Trail Monument Expedition, ranging from a simple engraved boulder to large stone pillars. Meeker stands by the monument in Boise, Idaho, which is almost twice his height.
  • Printed on front: Oregon Trail Monuments Boise, Idaho First Boulder Marked Pocatello, Idaho Summit Monument, Rocky Mts. Baker City, Ore.

SUSAN-006 Front

  • Ezra Meeker, Washington pioneer and original traveler of the Oregon Trail in 1852, is shown here with his wagon, trusty dog Jim, and a crowd of onlookers as he travels down a street in Indiana. Meeker re-crossed the Old Oregon Trail twice by ox-team and wagon between 1906-1911, raising commemorative markers along the way. This photo was taken during his second journey.
  • Printed on front: On the Street, Terre Haute, Ind. 1910.

SUSAN-011 Back

Printed on back: This faithful dog has been with the expedition from the start. Jim has had more adventures than any other dog living; run over by a trolley car, then again by a heavily loaded truck where the other dog was killed that he was fighting and he nearly so; then hooked over the fence by an irrate cow and again by Dave thrown over a sage brush; then again kicked into the air by a vicious horse and then again tackled by a wolf and finally lost in New York City for three days. Yet ever ready to stand guard over the wagon, never willing to ride while the team is in motion; Jim is indeed a great dog.

SUSAN-012 Front

  • Old Washington pioneer Ezra Meeker, his driver William Mardon, ox team, and covered wagon stand at rest at the side of a road in Boise.
  • Printed on front: At Boise, Idaho.

SUSAN-014 Front

  • A montage of photos from Ezra Meeker's two wagon crossings of the Old Oregon Trail between 1906-1912. We see two different views of the ox team and covered wagon, two commemorative markers placed on the trail, and a portrait of a bearded, bespectacled Meeker.
  • Printed on front: Ezra Meeker Enroute, On the Plains, 1st Boulder Marked, Summit of Rocky Mts.

SUSAN-015 Back

Printed on back: Note the two parallel trails in this view and how they come together on the ascending ground; these Trails were four feet deep on the lower levels and near seven on the upper stretch.

SUSAN-018 Back

Printed on back: These two realistic views graphicaly record the work of recovering the "Lost Trail," and preserving its identity, better than volumes of written testimony; 1906.

SUSAN-021 Front

  • Washington pioneer and Oregon Trail historian Ezra Meeker is shown here with President Teddy Roosevelt and his covered wagon at the end of a cross-country trip from Puyallup, Washington. Meeker underwent this arduous journey by wagon and ox team in efforts to preserve the Old Trail and raise commemorative markers for its pioneers. After reaching what he considered the end (or the beginning, from a pioneer viewpoint) of the Trail in Omaha, Nebraska, Meeker continued on to Washington, D.C. where he requested support for his project from President Roosevelt. Although the president urged Congress to consider a bill appropriating $50,000 for trail preservation, the bill failed. This did not discourage Meeker from tirelessly promoting his cause until his death in 1928.
  • Printed on front: President Roosevelt viewing the Team, 1907.

SUSAN-022 Front

  • Ezra Meeker, a Washington pioneer and historian, is shown here with his ox team and covered wagon among a group of onlookers. In an effort to preserve and memorialize the Old Oregon Trail, Meeker took two covered wagon trips back across it in 1906-1908 and 1910-1912. After the first trip, Meeker spent some time in California conducting research on the trail. He briefly returned to Washington when his wife died, but traveled back to California with his wagon and ox team to fulfill a prior commitment to drive in the Pasadena Rose Bowl Parade- an event he knew would be good for publicity. He then embarked on his second re-crossing of the trail, raising funds along the way to erect markers. This photo was probably taken shortly before leaving on his second trek.
  • Printed on front: Camp in the Park.

SUSAN-025 Back

Printed on back: Born Dec. 29, 1830; migrated to the Oregon country summer of 1852; farmer, father of the hop industry of Washington Territory (now State); pioneer in Exporting Pacific coast hops; spent four winters in London; and five years in searching out and recovering the lost Oregon Trail; never sick in bed for sixty years; always lived in the open air; never drank intoxicants nor experienced a rheumatic pain; active and hopes to live to be a hundred years old, Good night.

TACOMA ART CARDS-001 Back

  • Printed on back: W. W. Seymour Conservatory More than 17,500 individual panes of glass make up the wings and 72-sided dome of the Seymour Botanical Conservatory. The building was named for benefactor William Winkie Seymour, who also funded a YMCA summer camp that bears his name. Ironically, William Seymour died of a heart attack in the conservatory while planting a section of digitalis with his butler, Allen C. Mason.
  • Picture Tacoma Artist's Postcard Project; beautifulangle.com

TACOMA ART CARDS-003 Back

  • Printed on back: Beginning in the 1930s, Tacoma became known for the "Tacoma Aroma", a distinctive, acrid odor produced by paper manufacturing on the industrial tide flats. In the late 1990s, Simpson Tacoma Kraft reduced total sulfur emissions.
  • Picture Tacoma Artist's Postcard Project; card by johnc

TACOMA ART CARDS-006 Back

  • Printed on back: The Hot Shop Amphitheater, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington This imposing 90' stainless steel cone houses a hot glass studio and accomodates 200 visitors. The furnaces hold 1,000 lbs. of glass at temperatures up to 2,400 degrees.
  • Picture Tacoma Artist's Postcard Project; Photography by Sharon Styer, Sharon@sharonstyer.com

TACOMA ART CARDS-008 Back

  • Printed on back: Bridge of Glass Chihuly Glass near the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA
  • Picture Tacoma Artist's Postcard Project; Image copyright Mick Klass-www.mickklassphoto.com

TACOMA ART CARDS-019 Back

  • Printed on back: Tacoma Dreaming Lost horizon's coast Waters lapping such great shores Yearning's point of view
  • Picture Tacoma Artist's Postcard Project; Image and text by Jim Robbins

NWRPC-0073 Back

  • Printed on back: Paradise Valley Route.
  • Message: I have seen this glacier at a distance. With love, Mama.
  • Addressee: Aug. 12, 1906, Miss Bessie Wade, 17 Dow Street, Portland, Maine.

NWRPC-0088 Back

  • Message: Dear folks all - had a fine trip. stayed at Mitzlers Sat. night, leave to Longmires Sun. will be home Wed. I think if not tomorrow. Went to the glaciers yesterday, Martin.
  • Addressee: Mr. A.C. Spellman, 1310 North 6th St., Tacoma, Wash.

NWRPC-0105 Back

  • Message: Are you having a good time this summer? Miss Thompson R.D. 4 Box 272 Tacoma, Wash.
  • Addressee: Master William Goodpaster, Elma, Wash.
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