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
Artist John Carlton features the center for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
Printed on front: Northwest Detention Center I.C.E. "Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses longing to be free..." We're expanding! Brought to you by the GEO Group, Inc. YOUR social issues, OUR corporate interest Where the past meets the future: Northwest Detention Center The Tacoma Solution The NEW HUB for TUNNELS in the PACIFIC NW!
Artist John Carlton features Larry Anderson's statue symbolizing the lumberman's contribution to the devolpment of Tacoma that stands at Fireman's Park.
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
The Seymour Conservatory in Wright Park, as depicted by artists Lance Kagey and Tom Llewellyn. Description on the back of the card is largely a product of the artists' imaginations.
Printed on front: W.W. Seymour Conservatory, Tacoma Washington Having a heart attack in the W.W. Seymour Conservatory is like dying in a movie because it's so beautiful there, under the lemon tree that you wonder if you want to reach for the nitroglycerine.
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.
Rare wooden Tacoma postcard. Most likely produced as a promotional item for the area, it highlights the region's many recreational activities and close proximity to the mountain.
Printed on front: Come to Tacoma Heart of the Evergreen, Playground, Gateway to Rainier National Park
Printed on back: Tacoma Invites You Date___ Greetings! This is a year 'round play-ground----a great place to spend your next vacation. I am inviting you.
An unusually formal portrait of Ezra Meeker dressed in leather frontier clothing and holding an elaborate rifle. Meeker, an original traveler of the Oregon Trail, was probably best known for his tireless efforts to preserve and permanently mark its route. He made two journeys by ox team and wagon late in his life to raise monuments along the trail. Meeker nearly achieved his desire to live to be 100. He died 27 days before his 98th birthday.
