Portrait of Chief Moses of the Sinkiuse-Columbia nation, an inland division of the Salishan peoples. Photograph by Otto W. Pautzke, c. 1905.

Native Americans "Iron Paddle" and Ninkolacy More photographed in Bonners Ferry, Idaho by Dr. T.A. Bishop, c. 1906.

Portrait of a Native American, known by some as "Blind Toby," who lived in a tepee with his wife "Indian Nancy" on Water Street in Ellensburg, Washington, located in Whatcom County where he raised horses. Photograph by Otto W. Pautzke, c. 1905.

A horse drawn float carrying a 19 member "Cowgirl Band" at the inaugural 1910 Pendleton Round-up. The band are dressed in uniforms consisting of wide-brimmed hats, white scarves, buttoned jackets and long skirts. Photograph by W. S. Bowman, c. 1910.

Portrait of Seattle banker Jacob Furth. Born in Bohemia (today's Czech Republic) in 1840, Mr. Furth came to California as a teenager and opened a general merchandise store in Colusa before moving to Seattle in 1882, where he and others organized Puget Sound National Bank. Furth was cashier, receiving/paying teller, and bookkeeper before becoming president of the bank in 1893. Furth was the largest stockholder when his bank later merged with Seattle National Bank. Besides his banking career, Furth organized the California Land & Stock Co. in 1884, which owned a 14,000-acre farm in Lincoln County and he built and operated urban and interurban electric lines, becoming president of the Seattle Electric Co. and Puget Sound Electric Railway. He was a trustee of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce for 24 years and was an active Mason. Mr. Furth passed away on June 2, 1914 in Seattle, aged 73. Photograph c. 1892.

Leva Brockman of Rockford, Idaho, standing on a dirt road along the banks of the St. Joe River holding a rifle. Photograph by J. A. Brockman, c. 1904.

Portrait of Joaquin Miller (born Cincinnatus Hiner Miller in 1837) was an Oregon writer and poet who later achieved fame as the "Poet of the Sierras." Miller is wearing a fringed buckskin jacket, fringed pants, gun holster, and a white beard and handlebar mustache. Joaquin Miller worked in Oregon as a newspaper editor and judge before moving to California in 1870. After touring Europe, Miller returned to California in 1883 and settled in Oakland, his last home, where an elementary school and park are named after him. Photograph by Major Thomas Leander (Lee) Moorhouse, c. 1910. 

Bust of Princess Angeline, or Kikisoblu, the daughter of Chief Seattle, created by local sculptor James A. Wehn, who would later create the statues of Chief Seattle in Tilikum Place and Pioneer Square. The Coast Magazine stated the bust was first modeled in clay and then cast by the "lost wax art process,", creating only five casts which were subsequently destroyed. Princess Angeline, a familiar and well documented figure, died in Seattle in 1896. Photograph c. 1906.

A Native American family of ten pose outside of their camp on the Green River near Auburn, Washington with horses and dogs. A hammock, tent and wooden enclosure covered in conifer branches are visible. Photograph by Jensen, c. 1909. 

Mother and child, possibly of the Klallam nation, photographed in Clallum County. The baby is being rocked in a secured wooden cradle hung from a branch. The mother is sitting on a mat next to a basket with a creased fabric background. Photograph by E.C. Fulmer, c. 1905.

Puyallup hop picker with child secured in a wooden cradle inside a lean to shelter, beside a basket in the process of being woven. Photograph by M. D. True, c. 1906.

A Cayuse person identified by photographer Major Lee Moorhouse as "Anna Kash-Kash," (Speckled Bird) wearing a beaded buckskin dress, belt, choker, large shell earrings and several metal bracelets. Moorhouse recorded that Anna was a graduate of the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania where she also taught, before returning to live with her parents on the Umatilla Reservation. Photograph by Major Thomas Leander (Lee) Moorhouse, c. 1908.

The view of Mount St. Helens from Spirit Lake. Photograph by E.M. Strait (Castle Rock, Wash.) c. 1903.

Chinese dock worker carrying six 50 lb. bags of flour made in the United States. He was just one of hundreds of laborers who had met an incoming ship at Shanghai and were employed to unload cargo. Photograph c. 1907.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Text from photo: "The old homestead." A group of four pose with their horses outside a small wooden house and wooden cellar with a soil roof in Eastern Washington. Photograph c. 1900. 

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.

Two farm laborers picking apples on orchards owned by Mrs. Victor Dorris in North Yakima, Washington. Photograph c. 1909.

The Wilson House beside Lake Sutherland in the Olympic Mountains, about 17 miles west of Port Angeles, Washington. Photograph by Thomas, c. 1907.

A herd of Jersey cattle grazing in a fenced pasture in Lewis County. Photograph by George W. Gordon, c. 1909.

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. 

Farm near Pullman, Washington, in Whitman County. Pullman in 1904 had a population of more than 1,200, not including students of the state agricultural college. Photograph by W.E. Hudson, Pullman, Washington, c. 1904.