Team of horses and laborers operating a combined harvester and thresher on the Haskins Brothers farmland near Almira, Washington in Lincoln County. The wind guard on the rear of the combine keeps air from upsetting the threshing (separation) process and stores the chaff from the grain. Photograph by W.F. Mitchell, Almira, Washington, c. 1908. 

Business district in Shelton, Washington, displaying signs for The Bear Saloon, Bicycle Repairing, a Restaurant and Bakery, and The Shelton Market. Shelton was named after David Shelton, a delegate to the Territorial Legislature, and originally called Sheltonville. Shelton became the county seat of Mason County in 1888 and was incorporated in 1890. Photograph c. 1902. 

Prefontaine (Place) Building under construction in 1909 at Third & Yesler Way in Seattle. The building was named after Seattle's first resident priest, Father Francis Xavier Prefontaine (1838-1909) who arrived in Seattle in 1867 and built the city's first Roman Catholic church, Our Lady of Good Help, at Third & Washington. The Prefontaine Building was completed in 1909, the year of Fr. Prefontaine's death and remains extant. Photograph by Wilhelm, H.L., c. 1909. 

Pennsylvania Avenue in Cle Elum, Washington located in Kittitas County, featuring a restaurant, a wagon and building for the Northwestern Improvement Company, the state's largest producers of coal. Though signs are unreadable from photograph Central Hotel is visible next to the restaurant, followed by the Reed House, built by Cle Elum founder, Walter J. Reed. Photograph by Pautzke, Otto W., c. 1895.

Elevated perspective looking east on Pike Street from Second Avenue in Seattle, Washington. Visible buildings include The Pike, Kodak's, The American, The Union Bakery, The Peoples Savings Bank and the MacDougall & Southwick Company. Photograph by Webster & Stevens, c. 1909.

Oblique aerial perspective of Cashmere, Washington located in Chelan County, with Cascade Mountains at the horizon. Cashmere is located in the Wenatchee Valley between Leavenworth and Wenatchee. Photograph by O.C. Jordan, c. 1908.

Fishermen emptying nets of salmon into the Michigan steamer at the Shultz & Gross trap near Roche Harbor, Washington. Photograph c. 1903.

The Puget Mill Company sawmill in Port Gamble, Washington. Photograph taken June 14, 1900.

Makah Native American halibut fishers on Neah Bay, c. 1906. Photograph by S. E. Morse, Port Angeles, Washington, c. 1906. 

A house and barn on Lopez Island. Lopez Island spans 30 square miles and produced crops of grain, hay and orchard fruit. Photograph c. 1903.

Inter-Island Telephone Company agent W.H. McCrary's estate on San Juan Island, near Friday Harbor. Photograph c. 1903.

Cowboy Buffalo Vernon wrestling a steer at the Round-Up rodeo event in Pendleton, Oregon, 1910. The following year, steer wrestling or, "bulldogging," became an official event at the Pendleton Round-Up. Photograph by W. S. Bowman, September, 1910.

Ella Lazinka at the first Round-Up, Pendleton, Oregon, 1910. Lazinka took 14 minutes, and nine and a half seconds to run the three day relay at one mile each day, and won the first relay against noted cowgirl Bertha Blancett. Photograph by W. S. Bowman September, 1910.

The 18 acre Billy Turner Ranch orchards in Wenatchee Valley, overlooking the town of Wenatchee, Washington. The Turner Ranch contained 15 acres of orchards that averaged 90 trees to the acre which produced apples, peaches, pears, apricots and prunes. Photograph by B. C Collier, c. 1908.

Wheat warehouses in Ritzville, Washington with two teams of horses hitched to wagons for transporting the sacked wheat. Ritzville exported 1,856 cars of wheat and 563 cars of flour between 1901 to 1902. Photograph c. 1903.

Steam plow on John Hoffman's farm in Eureka Flats, near Waitsburg in Walla Walla County, Washington. Hoffman, a German immigrant, owned 8,000 total acres of wheat producing farmland in Walla Walla County before retiring in 1903 at the age of 51. Photograph by the Holt Manufacturing Company, Stockton, California, c. 1903. 

Overhead perspective of F. G. Monroe ranch workers branding cattle three and a half miles Southwest of Sprague, Washington. Photograph by T.T. Richardson, c. 1908.

Sacks of grain await shipment at Davenport, Washington, where more than a million bushels of wheat were exported in 1901 and as many as 15,000 and 20,000 bushels were produced in one season. Davenport is the county seat of Lincoln County in what the Coast magazine, called part of the "Big Bend Wheat Country" of Eastern Washington. Photograph c. 1902.

Teams of horses hitched to a threshing combine on the Robert Gunning ranch near Davenport, Washington. The wind guard on the rear of the combine keeps air from upsetting the threshing (separation) process and stores the chaff from the grain. Photograph by Paige, c. 1908.

Fishermen emptying nets of salmon at the Cattle Point fish trap off of the San Juan Islands. Photograph c. 1903.

Fishermen hauling in fishing nets with salmon at the Shultz & Gross trap near Roche Harbor, Washington. Photograph taken August 2nd, 1901.

Orchard land in Wenatchee Valley, Washington. Photograph by J. D. Wheeler, c. 1908.

Wheat field on the Alfred Leach ranch in the Gallatin Valley, Montana. Photograph by Schlechten, c. 1908.

Laborers in a sheep shearing corral owned by Lloyd and McKerlie near Ellensburg, Washington. Ellensburg is located in Kittitas County where thousands of sheep were wintered in the low lands of the south and eastern parts of the county along the Columbia and Yakima Rivers. Sheep were normally shorn in the springtime when its heavy fleece would not be needed to keep the animal warm. Photograph by Paultzke, Otto W., Ellensburg, c. 1908.

The Michigan steamer loaded with salmon at the Shultz & Gross trap near Roche Harbor, Washington. Photograph c. 1903.

Fishermen loading a salmon trap at Shultz & Gross near Roche Harbor, Washington in the San Juan Islands. Photograph c. 1903.

The Puget Mill Company sawmill in Port Gamble, Washington with three masted sailing ships docked for shipments and a log pond in the foreground for lumber awaiting processing. Photograph taken June 14, 1900.

Three children standing in a field of oats near Richardson on Lopez Island. Photograph c. 1903. 

Cowboys assembled for a steer roping contest. The 1910 Round-Up was the first annual event and drew 7,000 attendees. Text from photo: "Cow boys ready for the steer roping contest. The Round-Up. Pendleton, OR." Photograph by W. S. Bowman, September, 1910.

Ella Lazinka on horseback holding a trophy for the relay race at the 1910 Round-Up in Pendleton, Oregon. Lazinka won first place for the first two years of the competition and retired in her third year due to an accident which injured her leg. Photograph by W. S. Bowman September, 1910.