The Chanslor & Lyon Motor Supply Company (916) Fisk Rubber Co. (910) Firestone Tire & Rubber Company The Roe (912) and Bluff Apartments (920) on East Pike Street in Seattle, Washington. Photograph by Webster and Stevens, c. 1909.

Franklins and Appersons brand automobiles outside of The Seattle Automobile Company building at 1423-25 10th Avenue in Seattle, Washington. The business was run by President-Treasurer-Manager H.P. Grant. Photograph by Webster and Stevens, c. 1909.

People and parked bicycles outside of The United States National Bank building in Centralia, Washington, located in Lewis County, also containing The Palace Baths, The Little Gem Restaurant and Vaughan Tailor businesses. The bank was established in 1894. Photograph by George W. Gordon, c. 1909.

The Fine Arts Building at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle, Washington. The building was located across Puget Plaza, featured international art and was one of the few permanent structures used after the fair by the University of Washington as the Architecture Hall. Photograph c. 1909.

The Westminster Presbyterian Church in Chehalis, Washington, located in Lewis County. The church was originally organized in 1855 and incorporated in 1857 before this building was dedicated in 1908, which remains active and extant. Photograph by Drummond Studio, c. 1909.

People standing outside of the Pioneer Drug Company on the H.H. Allen Block in North Yakima, Washington, located in Yakima County. Built in 1887, the building has Italianate features such as decorative brackets, tall, arched windows and elaborate window crowns along the side of the building. Photograph c. 1907. 

A horse drawn float decorated with American flags which won first prize in the Pullman Washington Fourth of July parade, in front of sponsor A. B. Baker and Company, which sold Studebaker carriages and agricultural machinery. The false front's of the building and a sign incorporating a fleur de lis is visible. Photograph by Artopho Studio, c. 1906. 

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.