The McKinley Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church at Fifth and Pacific Avenue in Bremerton, Washington, located in Kitsap County. The 36 by 54 foot structure could seat 400, cost $5,000 and was dedicated in December 7, 1902. The church was named after Methodist President William McKinley. Photograph by Arthur T. Miles, c. 1909.

People outside of the King Mercantile Company and Klinke Restaurant in Ritzville, Washington located in Adams County, with the turreted H.E. Gritman building visible to the left. The King Mercantile Company opened in 1900, changed ownership and name to John F. Irby Hardware Co. in 1907 and became the Adams County Mercantile Co. in 1908 before being used intermittently afterwards as a theater. Photograph c. 1906.

Horse drawn ambulance outside of Louis J. Sticklin and Sons Funeral Directors and Embalmers building in Chehalis, Washington, located in Lewis County. Sticklin was born on September 24, 1860 in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania. Originally a casket maker, Sticklin moved to Chehalis in 1890 and established his business after gaining a state certificate and embalmer's diploma. Photograph by Drummond Studio, c. 1909.

Drawing for high school building in Chehalis, Washington, located in Lewis County. The building could have been one of eight schools that were operating in the Chehalis District No. 9 system at the time. Photograph by Drummond Studio, c. 1909. 

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.

Home converted from a cedar stump near Everett, Washington. Photograph c. 1907.

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.

Everett & Monte Cristo Railway Company train near Tunnel #4 along the Stillaguamish River canyon. The Everett & Monte Cristo Railway Co. was incorporated in 1892 and was a common carrier of mine and timber cargo. Photograph by Kirk, c. 1900. 

Forest area nine miles from Port Angeles, Washington. Photograph by S.G. Morse, Fulmer's Studio, Port Angeles, Washington, c. 1906.

Two loggers from the Thomas Bordeaux company pose in a deep cut in a standing tree in the Black Hills of Thurston County, Washington beside a whipsaw. Photograph by Jeffers Studio, c. 1909. 

Two loggers posing on springboard planks felling a tree with pictured axes and a whipsaw in Grays Harbor, Washington. 

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

The Puget Mill Company sawmill in Port Gamble, Washington. Photograph taken June 14, 1900.

Makah Native American halibut fishers on Neah Bay, c. 1906. Photograph by S. E. Morse, Port Angeles, Washington, c. 1906. 

A house and barn on Lopez Island. Lopez Island spans 30 square miles and produced crops of grain, hay and orchard fruit. Photograph c. 1903.

Inter-Island Telephone Company agent W.H. McCrary's estate on San Juan Island, near Friday Harbor. Photograph c. 1903.

Cowboy Buffalo Vernon wrestling a steer at the Round-Up rodeo event in Pendleton, Oregon, 1910. The following year, steer wrestling or, "bulldogging," became an official event at the Pendleton Round-Up. Photograph by W. S. Bowman, September, 1910.

Ella Lazinka at the first Round-Up, Pendleton, Oregon, 1910. Lazinka took 14 minutes, and nine and a half seconds to run the three day relay at one mile each day, and won the first relay against noted cowgirl Bertha Blancett. Photograph by W. S. Bowman September, 1910.

The 18 acre Billy Turner Ranch orchards in Wenatchee Valley, overlooking the town of Wenatchee, Washington. The Turner Ranch contained 15 acres of orchards that averaged 90 trees to the acre which produced apples, peaches, pears, apricots and prunes. Photograph by B. C Collier, c. 1908.

Wheat warehouses in Ritzville, Washington with two teams of horses hitched to wagons for transporting the sacked wheat. Ritzville exported 1,856 cars of wheat and 563 cars of flour between 1901 to 1902. Photograph c. 1903.

Steam plow on John Hoffman's farm in Eureka Flats, near Waitsburg in Walla Walla County, Washington. Hoffman, a German immigrant, owned 8,000 total acres of wheat producing farmland in Walla Walla County before retiring in 1903 at the age of 51. Photograph by the Holt Manufacturing Company, Stockton, California, c. 1903. 

Overhead perspective of F. G. Monroe ranch workers branding cattle three and a half miles Southwest of Sprague, Washington. Photograph by T.T. Richardson, c. 1908.

Sacks of grain await shipment at Davenport, Washington, where more than a million bushels of wheat were exported in 1901 and as many as 15,000 and 20,000 bushels were produced in one season. Davenport is the county seat of Lincoln County in what the Coast magazine, called part of the "Big Bend Wheat Country" of Eastern Washington. Photograph c. 1902.

Teams of horses hitched to a threshing combine on the Robert Gunning ranch near Davenport, Washington. The wind guard on the rear of the combine keeps air from upsetting the threshing (separation) process and stores the chaff from the grain. Photograph by Paige, c. 1908.