• Message: Dear Dora: Rec'd your card yesterday morning. Anna and I were to Hillsborog thursday we saw quite a number from Scholls, but didn't see you. We saw Mr. & Mrs. Loper and Roy and Gail. Miss Lewis and I went to the Herlig Theatre yesterday to the matinee to see the morning pictures of the Durbar (?). It was just fine. Mr. Marm (?) is about the same. Henry and wife came this morning. I can't hardly wait until you come down. We're planning to give you a time of your life. Also I am anxious for you to see your big nephew. he weighs 14 lbs. We'll write a little in a few ? Where did you celebrate at? How is Ma? ? (The rest is illegible.)
• Addressee: Miss Dora Hansen, Laurel, Oregon

• Printed on back: The State of Washington is famous for its timber industries, some of the largest saw-mills in the world being located on Puget Sound.
• Message: 1-26-10 Dear People- I am sitting with my window wide open and my frog is singing in the sun. I wish we would not ? so much rain for I could get along so nicely with less. But I put on my rubber coat hat and boots and go whistling down to the office dry, love to all.
• Addressee: Mrs. John Watson, College View, Neb, Box 87.

• Humorous picture of a dandily dressed dog, smoking a pipe while reclining on a settee.
• Printed on front: As I was going to say, we would enjoy working if we didn't have to do it.

• A girl in a pink, flouncy dress swings her bonnet daintily as she stands next to the poem about Ballard, Washington. It is a generic poem- the name of the city must be handwritten in.
• Printed on front: The name of this town is Ballard/ And I'm having the greatest fun/ I hate to think of leaving/ Wish my visit had just begun/ Have met the jolliest people/ So if ever you're up this way/ I'm sure you will have a good time/ Even tho' you're here but one day!

• Message: Ben: Just a line to let you know we expect to be home tomorrow tell Pete to have some-thing to eat for us, we are having a dandy time. Went to see Fatty Arbuckle last night. G.B.
• Addressee: Ben Klock, 723- 5 St., Hoquiam, Wash

• Message: Tuesday- Dear Royal M- I did not write that note to Mrs. Fal??? forgot it I wish you would do it for me Am having a fine time don't know when I will be back I leave everything in your hands. L.C.
• Addressee: Miss Jean Watson North Aberdeen Wash.

• McKinley Park was a gift to the city of Tacoma in 1901 from the Tacoma Land and Improvement Company. It was named after President McKinley.
• Printed on front: View of Tacoma, Wash. from Mc Kinley Park.

• Message: Dear Lethe, I am sending you your bribe to-day. It is raining, but it does not storm here as in L. I think I willl spend tomorrow night with the boys. B.
• Addressee: Miss Lethe E. Watson, College View, Nebr.

• Message: (The text is in Norwegian.)
• Addressee: Mr. Ben Klock C/O Polson Camp 4. Hoquiam Wash U.S.A.

• A wooden ramp leads down into a mass of docked fishing boats, their masts stretching far out into the distance where we can see a bit of the Seattle city skyline.
• Printed on front: Seattle's Fishing Fleet.

• Message: Dear Father- We are having some nice weather now. George Lenfesty died yesterday at Vancouver, B.C. where he had been employed for a number of years as motorman for the Vancouver Electric company. He left Hoquiam 15 years ago hope this card will find you all well M G
• Addressee: Mr James Gilles Port Daniel Centre Bonaventure Co- P.Q. Canada

A large group of men and women hold bamboo fishing poles as they pose for the camera.

• Message: See if you can find my face in the bunch. I weigh 210 lbs. largest and heaviest fellow in the crowd. I am the fellow seating on the fence one girl on each side of me. I have a light hat on. I surely had a fine time. I couldn't walk after eating. From your Bro. Bob. Hope your walking. Come over soon. How is llittle Howard?
• Addressee: Mrs. Ralph Philbrick, Hoquiam, Washington.

• Two men stand high up on a pole staying dry as they watch a huge splash in the water below them. The cause of the splash is likely a log hitting the water. circa 1915.
• Printed on front: The Splash

Message: Thurs. 8 May 1913

Children in costumes rehearse for a pageant or play on a stage as other children watch from the audience seating below.

A horse draped in a white cape advertising "Suter's Dry Goods Watch us Grow!" pulls a decorative buggy full of passengers. They appear to be participating in a parade, and the photo was taken as they pass in front of Suter's Dry Goods store. circa 1913.

• Message: Dear Mother, Hope you are quite well do not work to hard we are all well and doing quite a business I am still working in the store but I am tired of it work work all the time never done M. G.
• Addressee: Mrs. James Gilles Port Daniel Centre Bonaventure Co P.? Canada

• Message: Hello Ben, how are you getting along have you taken good care of my little man while I was gone The wheather is rotten nothing but rain all the time. Will be home Sun. E.B.
• Addressee: Mr Ben Klock 723 Fifth St., Hoquiam Wash.

• Message: Seattle Wash Jan 27 Dear friend Received you letter to day ???? you ?? so much far that I have been out a little but no more auto rides for some time Will be home about first of the month your friend Chris(?)
• Addressee: Mr. Ben Klock. C/O Home Bakery Cosmopolis Wash

• A rustic bridge made of a single log spans a pool at the bottom of the Whatcom Falls. circa 1915.
• Printed on front: Whatcom Falls, Bellingham, Wash.

• Message: Aug 21 In good old U.S. again. Seattle this after noon late. May start over the mountains Depends on roads. I p???? a piece of ???? Having a dandy time Slept well last night No Hotel as yet.
• Addressee: Daisy C. Philbrick Hoquiam Wash

• View of a large, many-storied hotel in Carson, Washington. This hotel was built around 1900, along with another hotel at nearby St. Martin's Hot Springs. Carson is a small community located in Skamania County in the southwestern corner of Washington State.
• Printed on front: Shipherd's Hot Springs Hotel- Carson Wash-

• Mt. Vernon, named for George Washington's plantation estate, is the county seat for Skagit County. It was established in 1893, and is well known for hosting the annual Tulip Festival. circa 1917.
• Printed on front: Residence View on South 3rd Street Mt. Vernon, Wash.

• A parade celebrating Independence Day features an elaborately decorated car with an abundance of flowers and a blossom and ribbon crowned deer's head. Flags are draped across the deer and flown from both sides of the car. circa 1911.
• Printed on front: July fourth. Hoquiam 1911.

• The New Whatcom County Normal School was opened in Bellingham in 1899. Normal schools existed to train people to become teachers, especially in rural areas. The Normal school became the Western Washington College of Education in 1933, and by 1947 was called Western Washington College and had increased the degrees it offered. In 1977, it became Western Washington University. circa 1917.
• Printed on front: State Normal School, Bellingham Wash.

Printed on back: Westport Boat Haven. Fishing was good the day this view was made. The facility is usually crowded to its capacity. Westport is one of the "Hottest" fishing ports on the west coast.

• Cute little buck hardly looks big enough to support his impressive headgear. Likely of the odocoileus hemionus columbianus species, or the Columbian black-tailed deer, the most prevalent type of deer in Western Washington. These deer prefer brushy, logged off lands and coniferous forests. circa 1940.
• Printed on front: Washington Native Deer