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.

The Bicycle Tree, located a mile south of the Snohomish on property owned by Abel Johnson. An old-growth cedar with a circumference of 48 feet and an archway carved through it on commission of the Snohomish Bicycle Club The tree was extant until December 1927. Photograph c. 1906.

Unidentified man poses in front of lumber at the Puget Mill Company in Port Gamble, Washington. Photograph likely February 10, 1900, in reference to TPL item WIL (B)-046.

Forest near Bordeaux in the Black Hills of Thurston County, Washington, named after logging company owners Thomas and Joseph Bordeaux. Photograph by Morse, S. G., c. 1909.

The Chehalis River near Adna, Washington, six miles west of Chehalis on the South Bend branch of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Photograph c. 1909.

Three men stand timbers loaded onto railway cars at the Adna Mill Company in Adna, Washington, six miles west of Chehalis on the South Bend branch of the Northern Pacific Railroad. The Adna Mill had an average capacity of 60,000 feet of lumber and 830,000 shingles per day and employed 90 men. Photograph c. 1909.

Logging crew for the Adna Mill Company working with a steam powered locomotive. The Adna Mill had an average capacity of 60,000 feet of lumber and 830,000 shingles per day and employed 90 men. Photograph c. 1909.

Two workers for the Stillwater Lumber Co. posing next to felled lumber (9 ft. 2 in. diameter and 9 ft. 8 in. diameter). The Stillwater Lumber Co. at Little Falls had a daily capacity of 100,000 feet of lumber and employed over one hundred workers. Photograph c. 1909.

Splash dam created by the Lytle Logging and Mercantile Company near Hoquiam, Washington on the Elk River. A splash dam is a temporary wooden structure used to raise the water level of streams to float logs downstream. The company employed over 250 men and produced 45 million feet of logs in 1902. Photograph c. 1903.

Logger for the Frank H. Lamb Timber Company posing in forest four miles from Montesano, Washington. Photograph by J. F. Ford, Portland, OR, c. 1903.

Panoramic photo of the Stanwood Lumber Co. in Stanwood, Washington, located in Snohomish County. Photograph c. 1903.

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

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. 

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

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

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.

Sacks of grain (consisting of 70,000 bushels of wheat) stacked at Richard J. Stephens' warehouse in Almira, Washington in Lincoln County. Stephens also owned a warehouse in the unincorporated community of Govan, Washington. Photograph c. 1908.

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.

The Manufactures and Oriental Buildings in the Court of Honor section of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle, Washington. More than three million visitors attended the Exposition during the summer and fall of 1909. Photograph c. 1909. 

The Sedro-Woolley Iron Works offices in Sedro-Woolley, Washington located in Skagit County, where the company's foundry and machine shop was also located. At the time, Sedro-Woolley had a population then of about 4,000. Photograph by Marsh, c. 1908.

The Hotel Mabton in Mabton, Washington located in Yakima County, owned by Frank Martin. Mabton formed due a Northern Pacific Railway line through the area and was incorporated in November 1905. Photograph c. 1909.

This is the Toledo Hotel, in Toledo, Washington. The man on the sidewalk near the hotel entrance is possibly J.L. Steinberger, its proprietor. The two women on the second floor balcony are probably hotel staff. Toledo in 1909 was a thriving little community with two hotels, including the wood-framed Toledo Hotel. It is located on the banks of the Cowlitz River. Photograph c. 1909.

Fourth of July street parade from a building's vantage point on 1st Avenue between Cherry and James St. in Seattle, Washington. Right to left, the Pacific Coast Seamship Company, the Lowman and Hanford Stationary and Printing Company (draped in in American flag) and the Tremont Buildings are visible. Photograph c. 1907.

The Toledo Public School building in Toledo, Washington located in Lewis County, south of Chehalis. The school employed four teachers, maintained ten grades and was equipped with a library containing 1,000 volumes. 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.