• When the Washington Condensed Milk Company went bankrupt in 1899, it was bought out by Elbridge Amos Stuart, who re-named it the Pacific Coast Condensed Milk Company. Later, Stuart re-named the company once again as the Carnation Milk Company. A portion of this building still exists in downtown Kent.
• Printed on front: Pacific Coast Condensed Milk Co., Kent, Wash.

• Message: Kent June 6th, 1917 Dear Jen. arrived here all O.K. went to work at one oclock. dont know just how I will like it yet. But think it will be alright. George and I just came in from a walk after supper. Tell Bill he wants 15. be good. Think I will be in sat night. as ever, Jas.
• Addressee: Mrs. Jennie Conaty 1203- Denny Way Seattle.

• A turn-of-century bathing beauty posing on a floating bell buoy.
• Printed on front: A Puget Sound Belle.

• Promotional monthly calendar for a shoe store, bearing a painted scene from the Hudson River. The calendar was apparently issued in monthly installments.
• Printed on front: Palisades of the Hudson. Just a reminder from W. T. Harper Fine Footwear Kent, Wash. There are twelve of these beautiful scenes. One will be sent you each month. Keep them all, and please read our message on the back of each card.

Printed on back: Taken at Pendleton, Oregon; typical dress of early days, but does not represent the subject, who never wore such, always preferring the plain farmer's garb; 76 years old (1906); migrated to Oregon in 1852; has lived there (Washington) ever since; farmer; sole organizer of the Oregon Trail monument expedition; erected twenty monuments; now season of 1907, en route to Washington, D.C., advocating the building of a natioanal road over the Oregon Trail as a monument to the pioneers, to be called Pioneer Way.

• Chief Sealth sitting with hands clasped and eyes closed. Sealth was the leader of the Suquamish and Duwamish tribes, and encouraged peace between his people and immigrants arriving in Seattle in the 1850's. The postcard is a reproduction of the only known photograph of Sealth, taken in 1864 by Seattle photographer E. M. Sammis.
• Printed on front: Chief Seattle after whom the city of Seattle is named.

• Princess Angeline- or Kikisoblu, as she was known in her tribe- was the eldest daughter of Chief Seattle. Ignoring orders to report to a reservation in 1855, she lived the remainder of her life in a shack on the Seattle waterfront, doing laundry and selling baskets. She was befriended and looked after by Catherine Maynard, a well-known Seattle pioneer.
• Printed on front: Princess Angeline.

• Close-up of dog Jim with oxen pulling a covered wagon across a bridge. Jim was the faithful companion of Washington Territory pioneer Ezra Meeker, and accompanied him on his two overland re-crossings of the Oregon Trail in 1906 and 1910. Jim survived being pitched over a fence by an ox named Dave, a fight with a wolf, an encounter with a rattlesnake, and being run over by a trolley. He later disappeared in a train station near Brooklyn, NY, but was returned when Meeker offered a reward of 20 dollars. "Money could not buy that dog", he explained. "He was an integral part of the expedition."
• Printed on front: Jim.

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

Printed on back: You cannot be expected to detect those differences in material which make such a material difference in shoes. You may not know good leather from bad- high-grade work from inferior. But you can at least take the precaution of buying your shoes where misrepresentations are never for a moment tolerated. W. T. Harper Kent, Wash.

• Portrait of reknowned Washington pioneer Ezra Meeker, dressed in leather fringed jacket. Born in Ohio in 1830, Meeker emigrated to Washington Territory in 1852 via the Oregon Trail. Actively involved in the early events of Washington Territory, Meeker was an historian who made it his life's work to commemorate the Oregon Trail and its pioneers. From 1906 to 1908, Meeker made his first of several trips back across the Oregon trail, raising funds in communities along the way to place commemorative markers. Selling post cards contributed to the funds. Eventually he placed 150 markers along the trail.
• Printed on front: E. Meeker

Printed on back: The dog Jim shown here with the team on the bridge, has come all the way across the continent; his habit of trotting on the way ahead and then returning to meet the team, and next to run out on first one side the road and then the other, has caused him to travel more than three times as far as the oxen; estimate has travelled 10,000 miles; he always disliked to ride in the wagon; Scotch Collie, 3 years old (July, 1907).

• Two photos showing Ezra Meeker standing by old wagon wheel ruts cutting through sagebrush and then sitting on a freshly installed Oregon Trail marker, accompanied by his dog Jim and several other men.
• Printed on front: Found the trail. Planting a marker.

• View of extensive farmlands near Auburn in the White River valley of King County, Washington. A cluster of buildings at top left is probably the downtown and residential area of Auburn.
• Printed on front: Bird's-eye view of Auburn, Wash. from the west.

• Portrait of Chief Sealth (Seattle)'s eldest daughter, Kikisoblu. The original photograph was taken c. 1896. When an 1855 treaty mandated that her tribal members report to reservations, Kikisoblu ignored the orders and remained in a shack on the Seattle waterfront. She supported herself by doing laundry and selling baskets. Kikisoblu was re-christened "Angeline" by Seattle pioneer Catherine Maynard.
• Printed on front: Princess Angeline, Daughter of Chief Seattle

• Message: Pat- It happened last Saturday. I will write a letter and tell you all about it. Boone
• Addressee: Mr. A. P. Conaty, Vashon, Wash.

Printed on back: Oregon Trail Monument Expedition Post Card 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.

• Washington pioneer Ezra Meeker's oxen, covered wagon, and dog Jim on a bridge during a trip across the Old Oregon Trail. Meeker, an original traveler of the trail in the 1850's, re-crossed it in 1906 and again in 1910 in efforts to raise funds for installing historic monuments along the route.
• Printed on front: On the Bridge, Burnt River, Oregon.

Printed on back: This typical suit shown in the illustration was quite common in the early fifties on the Northwest Coast, but has long since been discarded under the changed conditions of life in that region.The abundance of game, coupled with the incentive to procure food and the love of adventure, gave an abundant supply of the buckskin both for clothing of the body and for the moccasin foot-wear, so common in pioneer days. Difficulty was often experienced by the pioneers in getting cloth for raiment, and frequently the buckskin took the place of the home-spun or the more conventional "store goods".

• Ezra Meeker standing proudly before the camera, dressed in buckskin clothing and holding an ornate rifle. Meeker was a Pacific Northwest pioneer, businessman, politician, historian, and advocate for the commemorization of the Old Oregon Trail and its travelers.
• Printed on front: Ezra Meeker as Frontiersman.

• A grizzled-looking Ezra Meeker sitting sideways, wearing buckskin clothing and holding a rifle over his shoulder. This photo is part of a series of postcards Meeker sold to finance his efforts to place commemorative markers along the Old Oregon Trail.
• Printed on front: Ezra Meeker

Pioneer family of four with their two dogs posing in front of a one-story wooden cabin- probably a donation claim. Captain George Vancouver named this area in 1792 after a promontory in the English Channel. The Dungeness Valley is an alluvial plain fanning out from the Dungeness river, and its fertile soil attracted the first pioneer settlers in the 1850's.

Printed on back: Dungeness Wash 1912

• The Smith Tower was built by firearms and typewriter magnate Lyman Cornelius Smith. He planned to build a 14-story structure, but was convinced by his son that a skyscraper would be better for business. Construction began in 1910, and Opening Day was July 3, 1914. At 522 feet from curb to top finial, the tower was the tallest structure west of the Mississippi until 1931, and the tallest on the West Coast until the Space Needle came along in 1962. In this photo, the building appears to be in its final stages of construction.
• Printed on front: 42 Story L. C. Smith Bldg. Seattle.

• Side-view of the Art Deco style ferry plying the waters on a Seattle-Bremerton run. The boat was first put into service in San Francisco in 1926 under the name "Peralta". After a fire, what remained of the boat was sold to Captain Alex Peabody of the Puget Sound Naval Company (AKA the Blackball Line) who remodelled it and re-christened it the Kalakala, a word meaning "flying bird" in native Chinook. The streamlined design can be attributed to Mrs. Peabody, who viewed the first set of blueprints and suggested, "It ought to be more round!" The Kalakala was a faithful and classy workhorse from 1935 to 1967. When larger, swifter boats made it obsolete, it then served as a crab and shrimp plant in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. In the 1990's, it was brought back into the Puget Sound area for possible future renovation.
• Printed on front: Kalakala-Puget Sound ferry