Half of the Manufactures Building featuring its pergolas and rounded porch. Geyser Basin- now known as Frosh Pond- is in the foreground, the Machinery Building is visible at far right, and many visitors are strolling about. The AYPE was held in 1909 on the campus of the University of Washington. Most of its buildings were temporary structures not intended to last much longer than the fair. circa 1908.
Printed on front: Manufacturers Building and Machinery Hall, Alaska, Yukon, Pacific Exposition, 1909. Seattle, Wash. (Official Post Card.)
Message: Dear Father and Mother We are all well have compnay from B.C. will be gone in a few days. will write you a long letter soon hope you are all well love to all M.G.
Addressee: Mr James Gilles Port Daniel Center Bonaventure C. P.Q. Canada
Message: Dear Father, Hope you are all better- do not work too hard we are having lots of rain in Hoquiam yet don't think we are going to have any summer. M G
Addressee: Mr James Gilles Port Daniel Center Bonaventure Co P.Q. Canada
Message: Dear Mother,- I am glad you enjoyed the ferns. When Lettie came we can get more so you can give a few to your friends. I missed your good Thanksgiving dinner. Love to all Will.
Addressee: Mrs. John Watsan. College View, Nebraska, Box 89
Seven young girls dressed in white nightgowns and caps stand at the front of a classroom. They are all holding lighted candles and baby dolls. Possibly this was part of a skit or school play.
Originally a private park founded in 1883, much of the land was purchased by John M. and Abbie H. Frink and gifted to Seattle on October 25, 1906. The park's roadways and paths were designed by the famed Olmsted Associates in Brookline, Massachusetts, who took over the firm of their father, Frederick Law Olmsted-- to maximize the views of Lake Washington and to interconnect with other parks in Seattle. The parks paths, trails and footbridges were spruced up in anticipation of the AYPE held in Seattle in 1909, and an active friends group provides maintenance and restoration of native plants to the park today. circa 1917.
Printed on front: Frink Boulevard Serpentine, Seattle U.S.A.
Message: Dear Daisy we are resting and writing postal cards we leave again in the morning. I wish you could be with us. It is nice and warm lots of dust in the roads. With love, Bertha
Addressee: Mrs. R.L. Philbrick 610 Sixth St. Hoquiam, Wash.
Message: Wed morn-we are going to lake lunch here and then journey on. Yesterday was very warm in Seattle and we were all glad to be on our way again-Bertha-
Addressee: Mrs. R.L. Philbrick Hoquiam, Washington 610 Sixth St.-
Dry Falls no longer carries water, but is the remnant of what was once the largest waterfall known to have existed on earth. Compared to Niagara Falls, that has a drop of 165 feet and is one mile wide, this waterfall was 3.5 miles of sheer cliffs that dropped 400 feet. It is located 7 miles southwest of Coulee City. circa 1940.
Made from 12 million cubic yards of concrete, Grand Coulee Dam is the largest concrete structure in the United States and the third largest hydroelectric facility in the world. circa 1940.
Printed on front: Aerial View of the Grand Coulee Dam and Vicinity
Hops have been an important Northwest crop since the late 1800's. Washington state is currently the number one producer of hops in the country, and most of those are grown in the Yakima Valley. circa 1915.
Message: Dear Cousin:- Got your Xmas card O.K. we are all well, hope you are the same. I like school fine. Did Santa Claus come down there? he was out here all right. How are Annie & Jessie I am writing to May. Do you see Hannah? Is she working yet? As ever yours, Bessie L.W. Answer soon.
Addressee: Miss Dora Hansen Portland, Oreg 389 Taylor St.
The Southern Pacific Railroad's Shasta Line from Portland to San Francisco, and the Coast Line from Los Angeles to San Francisco were together known as the "Road of a Thousand Wonders.". circa 1920.
The Coos River is approximately 60 miles long, in southwest Oregon. It rises in western Douglas County, in the mountains west of Roseburg. It flows generally west through the mountains, entering the eastern end of Coos Bay on the Pacific, near the town of Coos Bay. It rises in western Douglas County, in the mountains west of Roseburg. It flows generally west through the mountains, entering the eastern end of Coos Bay on the Pacific, near the town of Coos Bay. circa 1911.
Printed on front: Coos River Farm Scene, near North Bend, Oregon
The totem pole display area at Brockton Point in Stanley Park is the most visited tourist attraction in all of British Columbia. Several of the original poles had been carved as early as the late 1880s but time plus the elements took their toll over the ensuing decades. The Skedans Mortuary Pole was replaced in 1962 by a replica with all remaining totems being sent to various museums for future preservation and new ones commissioned or loaned to the Park Board between 1986 and 1992. circa 1950.
Printed on front: Vancouver, B.C., Canada Indian Totem Poles, Stanley Park
Burrard Inlet lies between the city of Vancouver and the north shore municipalities of West Vancouver and North Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. circa 1917.
Printed on front: View looking across Burrard Inlet, showing Business Section. Vancouver, B. C.
