The Spokane & Inland Empire Railroad Co. and Land Department offices at the Spokane Terminal Building, in Spokane, Washington. The Spokane & Inland Empire Railroad Co. (aka Inland Empire System) incorporated in 1906 and operated over 200 miles of track radiating from Spokane. Photograph c. 1907.

People waiting outside the Canadian Pacific Railway Station at Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan in Canada. This is the second iteration of the station, built in 1898 from locally acquired stone and brick and outfitted with “solid oak furniture and upholstered patent leather chairs.” The Canadian Pacific Railway remains a transcontinental carrier operating in Canada and the United States. Photograph by Cameron, Agnes Deans, c. 1910. 

The Coffman, Dobson and Company Bank Building and W.E. Bishop, H.A. Langhorne and G.L. Thacker law offices in Chehalis, Washington, located in Lewis County. N.B. Coffman and Charles H. Allen established the bank in 1884 and eventually changed the name to Coffman, Dobson & Co., Bankers Inc., in 1904. Photograph by Drummond Studio, c. 1909.

The Coffman, Dobson and Company Bank Building, Chehalis, Washington. This is the same brick building as WIL (F) 202. This view of the bank building shows a pharmacy, advertised as both Coffman Drug Store (with two entrances) and Pheasant Pharmacy, on the first floor. A piano store adjoins the pharmacy at right and doctors' offices are above. Photograph by Drummond Studio, c. 1909.

The Safe Deposit Building at 218 4th Ave. in Olympia, Washington, located in Thurston County. The two-story reinforced concrete building was completed in 1908 and designed by Millard Lemon and Henry Mallory. The sidewalks next to the building were made of concrete as well, part of the fifty blocks of cement sidewalks laid by the city in its downtown business district over the past year. Photograph c. 1909. 

Machinery for the construction of the Tieton Canal in Naches, Washington, located in Yakima County. The work was part of the government's Reclamation Service to establish irrigation services in the area. Two-foot long sections of steel reinforced concrete were winched up hillsides, creating a 12 mile long canal. The first water deliveries were made in May of 1910 to the 28,000-acre district. Photograph c. 1907.

A team of horses with a wagon full of milk bottles and goods outside of the Harry Painter General Merchandise Store in Naches, Washington, located in Yakima Valley at the foot of Mount Clemens. Naches was founded on the completion of the North Yakima and Valley Railroad in 1907 and officially incorporated in 1922, following local merchant Lewis Smith being elected mayor. Photograph c. 1907.

The Eagle Furniture Company, Hotel Barker and Ernst Hardware Company at 514-18 Pike St. in Seattle, Washington. The Ernst Hardware Company was established in 1889 by Charles c. Ernst, renamed Ernst Brothers in 1902 and incorporated in 1907. The store expanded to 10,000 square feet with warehouses of combined floor space totaling 13,000 square feet. Ernst was headed by F.A. Ernst as president, Charles c. Ernst as vice-president and Wm. F. Eckert as secretary. Photograph by Webster & Stevens, c. 1909.

Grade school in Marysville, Washington, c. 1904. Marysville, north of Everett, had a growing population of about 1,200 c. 1904. Eight teachers were employed in their schools where promising students were able to achieve an eighth grade certificate. Here one teacher stands beside her pupils, most of them appearing to be of elementary school age. Photograph c. 1904.

The Governor's Mansion under construction in Olympia, Washington, located in Thurston County. The red brick, Georgian nineteen-room residence was designed by Tacoma architects Russell & Babcock at a cost of $35,000. While the structure was remodeled and enlarged in 1974, it remains the Washington State Governor residence. Photograph c. 1908. 

The Olympia Hotel on Main between 7th and 8th Streets in Olympia, Washington, located in Thurston County. The four-storied Victorian structure was built in 1889 at a cost of $100,000. The hotel advertised itself as "Headquarters for Commercial Men" with "Fine Sample Rooms." It was destroyed by fire in 1904. Photograph c. 1904.

The head of a stag is mounted over the large fireplace of Antlers Lodge on the shores of Lake Cushman, Washington. In 1925 the lodge was burned to the ground in a planned blaze. It is now under 160 feet of water in the expanded Lake Cushman. Photograph by L.F. Murdock (Seattle) c. 1904.

A group of children wading in Green Lake, located in Seattle, Washington. Green Lake was donated to the City of Seattle by the State of Washington in 1905 and included in the Olmsted Brothers' comprehensive parks plan, undergoing major changes over the subsequent 15 years. Photograph c. 1903. 

A Family on walking path in Kinnear Park, located in the Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. The park is named after the land's original owner, George Kinnear, who had moved to Seattle from Illinois in 1874, promoted the first wagon road through Snoqualmie Pass and organized the Immigration Board. Kinnear sold the park's wooded land to the City of Seattle in 1889 for $1.00. Photograph c. 1906.

Portrait of Yakima person, known by some as "Indian Nancy," who lived in a tepee with her husband "Blind Toby" on Water Street in Ellensburg, Washington, located in Whatcom County. Nancy had worked for a number of Ellensburg women, died about six years after this picture was taken and is buried in Toppenish, Washington. 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.

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.

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.

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.

E.D. Warbass holding open a rough hewn wooden gate to his property, named Idlewild on Friday Harbor in the San Juan Islands. According to the Coast Magazine article where this photograph was used, the Idlewild home was originally built by General George Pickett during the 1859 San Juan Pig War as an American camp against British forces. Photograph c. 1904.

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. 

Home converted from a cedar stump near Everett, Washington. Photograph c. 1907.

The Antlers lodge on the shores of Lake Cushman, Washington. The lodge was accessible by steamers from Seattle destined for Hood's Canal and then by stagecoach. It would burn in a planned blaze in November of 1925 that was intended to clear the Cushman Basin. Photograph by L.F. Murdock (Seattle) c. 1904.

Residence of H. C. Gillam in Centralia, Washington. Photograph by George W. Gordon, c. 1909.

Portrait of "Indian Nancy" by Ellensburg photographer Otto W. Pautzke. The passage of time shows on the lined visage of Yakama Indian, "Nancy" (no last name provided). Believed to be over 90 years old, Nancy and her husband "Blind Toby" lived in a tepee on Water Street in Ellensburg. Nancy had worked for a number of Ellensburg women while Toby, a non-Yakama Indian, raised horses. She died about six years after this picture was taken and is buried in Toppenish, Washington. The Wilhelm Collection. Photograph by Otto W. Pautzke, c. 1905.

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.