• Message: Hello, Mabel & R.C. Picture O.K., thanks. Some city this. Think I will stay here. Hope you are well. Cant say much you know why this is. I may be back some day. Good bye, J. D.
• Addressee: Miss Mabel Hash, Roseburg, Oregon

Mount Rainier above a settlement on the shore of a local lake. circa 1898.

View of the Tacoma Hotel and the waterfront from the original 11th Street Bridge. The bridge was completed in 1895 and closed in 1911. It was later replaced by the current vertical lift bridge, now named for local historian Murray Morgan. circa 1898.

Printed on back: Private Mailing Card. Authorized by Act of Congress of May 19th, 1898. (Postal Card-Carte Postale.)

Scene depicting busy Tacoma waterfront. circa 1898.

Printed on back: Private Mailing Card Authorized by Act of Congress passed May 19, 1898 Postal Card-Carte Postale

• St. Peter's, with it's unique ivy covered tree trunk bell tower, was built in 1873. circa 1900.
• Printed on front: Tacoma Souvenir. St. Peter's Church The Bell Tower is a large tree trunk around which the ivy has grown.

• Printed on back: Private Mailing Card Authorized by Act of Congress of May 19, 1898. Postal Card-Carte Postale
• Message: This is the twenty-sixth. I've written so we must fill the rest of the space. Jenni.
• Addressee: Miss R. Hansmann 1628 Octavia St. San Fran. Cal.

• Wheat being loaded onto ship from a warehouse on the Tacoma waterfront. circa 1902.
• Printed on front: Tacoma Souvenir Loading wheat on an Ocean Liner by an Electric Conveyor at Tacoma, Wash.

• Ship being loaded with wheat on Tacoma waterfront using the latest electrical equipment. circa 1900.
• Printed on front: Loading Wheat by Electricity, Tacoma, Wash.

Printed on back: Private Mailing Card Authorized by Act of Congress passed May 19, 1898 Postal Card--Carte Postale

• Photograph of Mt. Tacoma in the distance taken from Point Defiance Park. circa 1900.
• Printed on front: Tacoma, Wa. Mt. Tacoma from Pt. Defiance Park 14,444 Feet high, 70 miles distant from the City of Tacoma View from beach near end of line of Tacoma Railway & Power Co.

• Rustic trail and stairs of the lower path in Point Defiance Park. circa 1900.
• Printed on front: Tacoma, WA. Lower path Pt. Defiance Park On line of Tacoma Railway & Power Co.

• Printed on back: Northwestern Indian Series
• Addressee: Miss Mary Deroy 408 Campbell ave Detroit Mich.

• Area of Chambers Creek showing rustic bridge in the distance. circa 1903.
• Printed on front: Chambers' Creek, Near Steilacoom From Tacoma Railway & Power Co. 's Track

Tacoma Parcel Delivery truck in neighborhood sporting sidewalks and an unpaved road. Man working in his garden on the far right. circa 1925.

• Message: Yours truly, Your Aunt Melvina/Wilfreds Grandpa--Grandpa Garretts sisters house. Melvina Coffield Tacoma, Wash.
• Addressee: Mr. and Mrs. E. Garrett

• Printed on back: Private Mailing Card Authorized by Act of Congress passed May 19, 1898.
• Message: My dear-Come out next Monday Eve--stay to supper and I will take you to my Gym in the evening-Can you?-Rec'd money was you crazy or drunk when you sent it? Busy every night this week.-Will settle with you Mon. Aff Mae B.-
• Addressee: Miss Elizabeth Robbins 28 Lewis Wharf Boston Mass.

Unidentified house or building bordered by a white picket fence. circa 1920.

• Young Women's Inn, located at 1011 South 3rd Street, opened in 1912, "to care for those who are lonely," according to an article in the Tacoma Daily Ledger on August 18, 1912. The motto on the letterhead of the organization stated: "We provide a pleasant, modern home with especial care for the spritual, moral and social welfare of young girls. In the realm of morals an ounce of prevention is worth many pounds of cure." There was room for 25 girls, and the names of the trustees and officers of the organization were listed to ease the fears of any skeptical citizens who may have doubted the intentions of the owners in establishing the residence. circa 1913.
• Printed on front: Working Girls Home Tacoma, Washington

Printed on back: Tacoma, Washington. Mt. Rainier stands as a sentinel in the distance. Industrial area in the left distance while the downtown business area is shown in foreground and to the right.

Aerial view of the downtown business district with Mount Rainier in the background. circa 1960.

Printed on back: Tacoma, Washington. Mt. Rainier stands as a sentinel in the distance. Industrial area is in the left distance, while the downtown business area is on the right.

Printed on back: Tacoma, Washington. This view shows downtown business district with Tacoma Stadium and Stadium High School in foreground.