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C148207-1

ca. 1890. Copy of customer print. Sepia portrait of J.B. (Jesse) Sutton, first president of Puget Sound National Bank. Pulling up stakes from Quincy, Michigan, the 62-year-old banker arrived in the "fastest-growing town on the Pacific Coast" in 1890. By the late 1880's, Tacoma was home to six national banks and six state and private banks. Sutton was to add one more, the Puget Sound Savings Bank which incorporated on May 8, 1890. He led the bank through the slowing Tacoma economy in the early 1890's and survived the bank closures that affected many Tacoma banks after the 1893 stock market panic. Sutton passed away in 1904. Prior to his death, the board of directors commended him for his "conservatism, good judgement (sic) and high sense of honor" that led the bank during the "stormy period of the great financial crisis of 1893, and establishing it firmly in the confidence of the people which it enjoys today." Puget Sound Savings Bank would evolve into the Puget Sound National Bank which celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1965. (Provorse: Banking on Independence)


Sutton, J.B.; Banking--Tacoma--1890-1900; Bankers--Tacoma;

F. Jay Haynes TPL-1303

ca. 1890. View of Seattle showing dirt street with paved sections for street cars. Street car on tracks. Buildings. Seattle Lake Shore & Eastern Railway cars at station. Standard Furniture building.

F. Jay Haynes TPL-1330

ca. 1890. South 9th Street looking west up the hill from A Street, circa 1890. Although there were wood sidewalks, South 9th St. itself appeared to be either dirt or gravel, making for uncomfortable travel during the rainy season. At left, from front to back, were the London & Liverpool Clothing House (902-04 Pacific), Gross Bros. Store (901 Broadway) and the spires of the Tacoma Theater (902-14 Broadway). Photo from "Northern Pacific Railroad Scenery" with photos by F. Jay Haynes (F. Jay Haynes Collection)


Commercial streets--Tacoma--1890-1900; Business districts--Tacoma--1890-1900; London & Liverpool Clothing House (Tacoma); Gross Bros. Store (Tacoma); Tacoma Theatre (Tacoma);

TPL-375

ca. 1890. This photograph of the Cascade Steam Laundry, 2124 A Street, was taken sometime in the 1890's. The laundry's fleet of delivery wagons, harnessed to horses, is lined up in front of the business. Cascade Steam Laundry employed 36 men and women in 1891 with a monthly payroll of $1800. Proprietor H.A. Durr had recently remodeled the building to increase the width by 12 feet and increase the height by one story. Appliances included six washing machines, one large mangler (ironer) with a new one to be installed shortly, one extractor (wringer) and one 18-rack dry room. The Cascade Steam Laundry was established in 1886. (copy of original) Bi-Centennial Project # 75346-33 BU-12654 G35.1-167 (TDL 10-9-1891, p. 3-article)


Cascade Steam Laundry (Tacoma); Cleaning establishments--Tacoma--1890-1900; Carts & wagons--Tacoma--1890-1900;

TPL-2887

ca. 1890. This early steam driven streetcar, circa 1890, was photographed travelling from downtown Tacoma through the North End to Point Defiance Park. The C Street Line was an early streetcar development built by Allen C. Mason and Nelson Bennett and it eventually extended to Point Defiance Park. The streetcar was printed with the name of the Point Defiance, Tacoma and Edison Railway Co. The railway company was only one of several small companies offering their own limited transportation systems. By 1898, most of the companies were having financial difficulties; and by 1899 the various lines were merged into the Tacoma Railway and Power Co. The Point Defiance Railroad Co. was franchised in 1889 to run a line to the Tacoma Smelter. It soon merged with a line to Edison (South Tacoma.) In July of 1892, the Point Defiance, Tacoma and Edison ran its first electric streetcar from Point Defiance Park to Edison (South Tacoma); a trip of twelve miles in one hour and twenty minutes. (T.Times 6/10/1938, pg. 15) G41.1-068 (also TPL-7990)


Mass transit--Tacoma--1890-1900; Street railroads--Tacoma--1890-1900; Point Defiance, Tacoma & Edison Railway Co. (Tacoma);

C8538-1

ca. 1890. Frank C. Ross (right) and Charles A.E. Naubert were two of the early boosters of Tacoma. This photograph is a copy negative made in July of 1939 of an old tintype, taken around 1890 when they were in their early thirties, and were actively developing the Tacoma & Lake City Railway. The T & LC started at No. 26th and Union, ran south past Snake Lake to Manitou, and from there to American Lake. Although the railroad operated for less then ten years, it was instrumental in opening both the north end and the south end of Tacoma to development. Charles Naubert died in 1940; Frank Ross in 1947. Copy was made for Mr. Short of the Tacoma Times. Ross & Naubert was a real estate firm in Tacoma. (Casey Jones Locker, by F. Shaw pp.79-82)


Naubert, C. A. E.; Ross, Frank C.; Business people--Tacoma--1890-1900;

TPL-4117

ca. 1890. Fire Station #2, Tacoma Fire Department. View of firemen posed in the act of responding to an alarm, taken in the fire station's bedroom. Fire fighters had to be prepared to respond at all hours of the day and night and speed was of the essence. The actual date of this sepia photograph is not known; it may have been roughly in the 1890's. A similar picture is TPL 4118 which portrays the men of Station No. 5 in the same situation. Engine Co. #2 was first established in 1889 at 1735 South "E" (Fawcett). According to the 2nd Annual Tacoma Paid Fire Department Annual Report, fiscal year ending May 31, 1891, the company roster consisted of six men, including Captain P.W. Chapman, age 22, a former salesman. He appears to have been the 4th captain in less than a year at this station. In 1907, a new Station No. 2 was built at 2701 Tacoma Avenue So.; subsequent remodeling was done in 1935. The station is on both the City and National Registry. (2nd Annual Report Tacoma Paid Fire Department, p. 22; 100 Years of Firefighting in the City of Destiny Tacoma, Washington, p. 17, 42)


Tacoma Fire Department (Tacoma); Fire stations--Tacoma--1890-1900; Fire fighters--Tacoma--1890-1900;

2200-1

ca. 1890. Copy of an old photograph ordered by Virginia Rosch. The photograph is of a woman and a small boy in front of the Bay View Hotel and Restaurant. The sign for the restaurant reads "Open Day and Night." (WSHS)


Rosch, Virginia--Associated objects;

C84386-1

ca. 1890. Copy of customer print. A woman, elegantly dressed in a long sleeved black blouse and long black skirt, has one hand on an ornate wooden chair. She wears a watch tucked in the waistband of her skirt; it is attached to a long gold chain. Her lighter colored hair is rolled and probably fastened in the back. This undated sepia photograph was copied for Lindstrom's Home Furnishings on August 11, 1954; the original was possibly taken in the 1890's.


Portraits; Women--Clothing & dress; Chairs; Lindstrom's Home Furnishings (Tacoma);

C117132-27

ca. 1890. This copy of an old lantern slide shows the original Annie Wright Seminary at 611 Division Avenue as it appeared around 1890. The large building, with its tall vertical proportions, steeply pitched roofs, towers and decorative shingles, appears to be in the Queen Anne style of architecture. The school, named in honor of the daughter of its benefactor, Charles Barstow Wright, opened on September 3, 1884, with a student body of 93 girls from Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, and one from Alaska. In 1924, a new school was built on a ten-acre campus a few miles west on Tacoma Avenue, and this building was dismantled. The site where it stood is home to Stadium Thriftway and the Chevrolet dealership recently purchased by Bruce Titus. ( Date of original glass plate may have been about 1890; copy made on October 3, 1958.)


Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1880-1890; Private schools--Tacoma;

C117132-35

ca. 1890. This photograph, made from an old glass plate negative, shows the Tacoma Hotel as it looked in the 1890s. The massive modified Tudor design structure was built in 1884 by F.W. Lewis, contractor, using the architectural plans of McKim, Mead & White/Stanford White. Built of red brick and white stucco with white stone trim, the hotel cost $267,000. It was 300 feet long and five stories high and covered an entire block between 9th & 10th Sts. on A St. in downtown Tacoma. The lavish hotel had a beautiful view of Mount Rainier and Commencement Bay. Over the years guests at the hotel included Sarah Bernhardt, Babe Ruth, Teddy Roosevelt and Calvin Coolidge. The showpiece of Tacoma, the hotel was reduced to ruins on October 17, 1935, in a spectacular fire, and never rebuilt. (Copy made on October 3, 1958.) (Martin: Tacoma: A Pictorial History, p. 149) TPL-9500


Tacoma Hotel (Tacoma); Hotels--Tacoma;

F. Jay Haynes TPL-1312

ca. 1890. Warehouse and piers along the Seattle waterfront. Sailing shops docked at Yesler wharf. Fisher & MacDonald, and hides, wool and fur signs on buildings in background.

F. Jay Haynes TPL-1317

ca. 1890. Seattle street scene. Buildings including the West Street House and the City of Paris. Horses and wagons in street. Milk cans and crates stacked along edge of street. Street unpaved.

F. Jay Haynes TPL-1331

ca. 1890. The Northern Pacific Dock, circa 1890, on Tacoma's waterfront. The large building next to the docked vessel is the Ocean Freight warehouse. The warehouse at center is the Northern Pacific Local Freight warehouse. Photo from "Northern Pacific Railroad Scenery" with photos by F. Jay Haynes (F. Jay Haynes Collection)


Northern Pacific Railway Co. (Tacoma); Loading docks--Tacoma; Piers & wharves--Tacoma--1890-1900; Warehouses--Tacoma--1890-1900; Waterfronts--Tacoma--1890-1900;

F. Jay Haynes TPL-1334

ca. 1890. Tacoma Hotel and Mason Block Bldg. on A Street. Shaw & Naubert, a real estate company, occupied 1001 A Street, at right in the photograph. The firm was one of the first occupants of the Mason Block, built by Allen C. Mason in 1888. The building would later house the Mason Hotel and after remodeling, the Fairmont Hotel. The elegant Tacoma Hotel, 913 A Street (at left in photograph), was Tacoma's pride until it was destroyed by fire in 1935. Although parts of the downtown business area still had dirt streets, this portion boasted planked roadway. Photo from "Northern Pacific Railroad Scenery" with photos by F. Jay Haynes (F. Jay Haynes Collection)


Tacoma Hotel (Tacoma); Hotels--Tacoma--1890-1900; Shaw & Naubert (Tacoma); Real estate business--Tacoma--1890-1900; Commercial streets--Tacoma--1890-1900;

MAYOR -008

ca. 1890. George B. Kandle, Republican, was elected mayor of Tacoma on October 18, 1890. This picture is from William Prosser's "A History of the Puget Sound Country," The Lewis Publishing Company, 1903. opp p.224. George Kandle came to Washington as an infant in 1852. His parents, Henry and Margaret Kandle, had first arrived in Portland in 1851 where their wagon train broke up. Their son grew up on a large farm near Roy and later clerked at a drug store in Steilacoom. The firm of Clendenin & Miller then opened a general store in Old Town in 1872 and placed the future mayor in charge. In December of 1872 George Kandle was elected county auditor and served four terms. He was later a member of the Tacoma city council and in 1889 represented his district in the first legislature of the new state of Washington. While serving as a legislator, he was elected mayor of Tacoma in October of 1890 and remained in that office until 1892. George Kandle was to later serve as county commissioner and as a trustee for Western Washington Hospital (Western State). George B. Kandle died at age 75 in December of 1926. ALBUM 16. (Bonney: History of Pierce County, Washington, III, p. 201-202; Hunt: Tacoma Its History and Its Builders, III, p. 17-19)


Kandle, George B.; Mayors--Tacoma--1890-1900;

G25.1-081

ca. 1890. Engine house # 9, Earl G. Jones pictured. Team of horses and other firemen included in this circa 1910 photograph. TPL-2759, TPL-8438 (Original print TPL-1082)


Jones, Earl G.; Fire fighters--Tacoma--1910-1920; Fire stations--Tacoma--1910-1920; Horses--Tacoma--1910-1920;

TPL-371

ca. 1890. Gross Brothers store at 901 Broadway. The large staff of the Gross Brothers store lined up on the sidewalk in front of the main entrance and also on the second floor balcony to promote its "Anual" (sic) Clearance Sale circa the winter of 1890. The holiday season was over and it was time to clear the store for the influx of new merchandise. Every item in the huge department store, at one time the city's largest, would be reduced and customers were urged to take advantage of lower prices until February 1st. Built in 1889, the magnificent property was later known as the Jones Block and was demolished in 1916 to make way for the Pantages Theater. This particular photograph was selected for a daily feature of long-ago pictures displayed in the News Tribune on May 24, 1934. Bi-Centennial Project # 75346-55 BU-12722 G56.1-015 (TNT 5-24-31, p. 11 -"In Tacoma's Family Album")


Gross Bros. Store (Tacoma); Department stores--Tacoma--1890-1900; Banners; Facades--Tacoma--1890-1900;

KERLEE-05

ca. 1890. "scenery of Oregon and Washington Territory" Northern Pacific Railroad Brewery in the 1880s from an early stereopticon slide. (From the collection of Dan Kerlee, Seattle, Washington.) A driver is waiting, along with his team of horses, to transport barrels and bottles of brew. Another cart is empty next to a yard filled with lumber and possibly bottles. A empty cask lies on its side in the foreground. This brewery was built in Steilacoom on Starling Street in 1873 by Wolf Schaefer. It was acquired by the Northern Pacific Railroad shortly after the death of Mr. Schaefer in 1889. Two years later, the company closed the brewery. (Meier: "Breweries of Steilacoom," Brewed in the Pacific Northwest, p. 110-112)


Northern Pacific Railroad Brewery (Steilacoom); Brewing industry--Steilacoom--1880-1890;

C52158-1

ca. 1890. Copy of customer's print. A parade/procession marches south down Pacific Avenue in 1890. At the bottom of the photograph are six riders on horseback followed by a drum major and small marching band. Military units are next. In the far left corner is Nels P. Neilson's Boots & Shoes (building with "Redfront" sign). The Luzon Building is at 1302-04 Pacific Avenue (left side, center). The historic building was demolished in September of 2009. Copy of photograph made on August 31, 1950. (TPL-3261)


Parades & processions--Tacoma--1890-1900; Commercial streets--Tacoma--1890-1900; Luzon Building (Tacoma);

C163008-5

ca. 1890s. This is one of the drugstores operated by Edward A. Roice on Sixth Avenue in the 1890's. During that period he had moved his pharmacy three different times but remained on Sixth Avenue. It is not known which particular address (2407-11, 2801-03, or 2815) on Sixth the above photograph reflected. This section of the drugstore was filled with customers examining items for sale or waiting for prescriptions to be filled.


E.A. Roice Drugstore (Tacoma); Drugstores--Tacoma--1890-1900;

C139793-2

ca. 1890. A glimpse into Steilacoom's past as two buildings on the north side of Commercial Street, between Main and Balch, were photographed ca. 1890. The smaller building to the right was built by George Weller in 1850 as a butcher shop. Henry Rupp later purchased it and operated a beer hall in it during the 1880's and 1890's. At the time of this photograph the larger two-story building was divided into a post office (on the left) and a butcher shop. There was a residence on the second floor. Both buildings were torn down in 1938.


Beer halls--Steilacoom; Post offices--Steilacoom; Facades--Steilacoom;

931-2

ca. 1890. Reprint of photograph of military men and some civilians assembled outside of tent. Photograph ordered by Edgar T. Short for his column in the Tacoma Times.


Military personnel--United States--1890-1900; Military uniforms--1890-1900; Tents; Clothing & dress--1890-1900;

A6038-1

ca. 1890. Old photograph copied around 1937, showing a wagon, perhaps a fire engine, being pulled at speed by two horses on what seems to be Tacoma's A Street in the 1890s. Tower in background appears to be that of City Hall. (filed with Argentum)


Carts & wagons--Tacoma--1890-1900; Horse teams;

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