• Postcard sent by noted local historian, author and instructor Murray Morgan to his student, who now works in the Tacoma Public Library's Northwest Room. circa 1979.
• Printed on Front: Tacoma Community College, Tacoma, Washington

• Printed on back: The Administration Building In the background is typical of the architecture of the TACOMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE. Located in Southwest Tacoma at 5900 SO. 12th Street, the college is one of the largest in the state. Both the rock in the foreground and Mount Rainier on the horizon add to the natural beauty of this Liberal Arts College. The 130 acre campus, which opened in the Fall of 1965, has ample space for expanding enrollments.
• Message on back: Dear Jody--That was one of the best I've had about the museum. Murray Morgan
• Addressee: Jody Mattsen 4523 So. Lawrence, Apt.D, Tacoma, Washington 98409

• In 1886 the Tacoma Land Company, and its president, Charles B. Wright, donated a parcel of land about 20 acres in size to the City of Tacoma for the purpose of being developed as a public park. His stipulation was that 'upon condition nevertheless that said land shall forever be exclusively used as and appropriated for the uses and purposes of a public park.'.
• Printed on front: View from Wright Park, Tacoma, Washington. Olympic Mountains in background.

• Here is an Tacoma Smelter photograph of what was then the highest concrete chimney in the world at 317 1/2 feet--later a chimney height at the ASARCO plant would reach 571 feet, before being shortened to 562 feet due to repairs in 1937. The last stack was brought down by implosion in 1993.
• Printed on front: Highest Concrete Chimney in the World, 317 1/2 feet. Tacoma, Wash.

• Message: My dear Mrs. C.- ? better-Your letter came today-guess I had the grippe was pretty sick for two weeks-wish you could live here-will write soon-Besse
• Addressee: Mrs. W.C. Clive Sunnyside, Wash.

• Message: Tacoma, April 15-Have been spending Easter week here with everyone. Jim coming over for Sunday. Am going back to Seattle this afternoon and send you my greeting from here before I leave. Hope all is well with you & yours. The beautiful spring weather is here but it brings such sad anniversaries to me. I think of ? Minnie
• Addressee: Mrs. Anna K. Dickerman 31 Allston St. Allston, Mass.

Rows of daffodils bloom in the Puyallup Valley.

• Printed on back: Union Pacific System Pictorial Postcard The scenic Columbia River Route to the Pacific Northwest. Message mostly unreadable due to damage.
• Addressee: Mrs. Ingersoll, Los Angeles, Calif.

• Message: 1923 Dear friends, How are you getting along these days? Often think of you. I am having a wonderful time and enjoy the cool climate. Spend most of my time at the beach with the folks. Hope you are well. Lovingly, C. Robenmasher (?)
• Addressee: Mrs. Ingersoll, Kansas Ave. Los Angeles. Calif.

• The aquarium was started in 1910 in the old Iron Springs Sanitarium Building, and later relocated to a house on Martin St. until the permanent aquarium building was built in 1920. It closed in 1942, and the building was demolished.
• Printed on front: Interior Deep Sea Aquarium and Museum. Salters Point, Steilacoom, Wash.

Message: Lula Kissick from Lorence

• Unusual chicken band and a couple enjoying their music. Chickens in the band are embossed on the card, wearing clothes but no shoes. The couple is both embossed and covered with a velvet material, both on their heads and their clothes. They also do not have shoes on.
• Printed on front: Easter Greeting.

Elaborately decorated fan--embossed and glittered with velvet flowers on carefully colored paper. Printed on front: Birhtday Greetings

• Message: Dear Friend:-I told your brother two weeks ago to tell you of Miss S's. marriage. I asked him last night and he said he forgot to tell you. She was married Nov. 19th to Chas. Gunther in Vancouver, B.C. I'm so busy doing x-mas family work that I haven't had time to keep up any ? ? ? How is the cat? M.S.
• Addressee: Miss M. Stambaugh 4101 So. J Street Tacoma, Wash.

• Train crossing the Puyallup River. Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power completed the line called the Puget Sound Electric Railway between Tacoma and Seattle in 1902. Seattle-Tacoma interurban rail service ended on December 30, 1928, after the construction was completed on Highway 99.
• Printed on front: P. S. Electric Ry. Bridge, Puyallup, Wash.

• Message: Puy. Wn. ? '09 Dear Mabel ? your nice card rec'd & as usual I am slow in answering. Elnora is alright now, Vernon is cutting teeth, many thanks for his card. Do come out for the fair also your Mother it will cost you more after next week. Come early maybe I can go with you. Ernest has been at Portland & Salem. With love--Mabel. Have you heard from Bertie?
• Addressee: Miss Mabel Stambaugh 4101 So. J Street Tacoma, Wash.

Addressee: Kathy Weimer Rt. 1, Box 113

• Built in 1892, this became the Old City Hall when the County-City Building opened in 1959. This building is on the City, State and National Historic Registries.
• Printed on front: City Hall & Grounds, TACOMA, Wash.

• Elks Temple at 565 Broadway, built in 1915. Listed as part of the Old City Hall Historic District on the Tacoma Register of Historic Places, State Register of Historic Places, and National Register. Undergoing renovation currently after years of disrepair, this building is scheduled to reopen as a hotel, spa, brewpub and music venue in Spring 2012.
• Printed on front: Elk Club, Tacoma, Wash.

• Message: Aug 13, 1923 Hello Fred, How are you? Fine I hope. I'm in the best of health and am having lots of fun. Milvell is fine, to. And so is all the rest of old town. Your friend, Evelyn C. 2320 No. 28th St. "Launch Vega"
• Addressee: Mr. Fred Frederickson Neah Bay, Washington.

• At the southern end of Hood Canal, Skokomish was established in 1858. In 1890 it became Union City, and in 1895 was shortened to Union, after the Union Pacific Railroad decided not to make the town a terminus.
• Printed on front: Hood's Canal at Union

• On the southwestern shore of Port Townsend Bay on the Olympic Peninsula, Port Hadlock is in northeastern Jefferson County. It is named for former mill superintendent Samuel Hadlock who platted the town in 1886.
• Printed on front: Hadlock, Wash.