Portrait of Joaquin Miller (born Cincinnatus Hiner Miller in 1837) was an Oregon writer and poet who later achieved fame as the "Poet of the Sierras." Miller is wearing a fringed buckskin jacket, fringed pants, gun holster, and a white beard and handlebar mustache. Joaquin Miller worked in Oregon as a newspaper editor and judge before moving to California in 1870. After touring Europe, Miller returned to California in 1883 and settled in Oakland, his last home, where an elementary school and park are named after him. Photograph by Major Thomas Leander (Lee) Moorhouse, c. 1910.
Portrait of Seattle banker Jacob Furth. Born in Bohemia (today's Czech Republic) in 1840, Mr. Furth came to California as a teenager and opened a general merchandise store in Colusa before moving to Seattle in 1882, where he and others organized Puget Sound National Bank. Furth was cashier, receiving/paying teller, and bookkeeper before becoming president of the bank in 1893. Furth was the largest stockholder when his bank later merged with Seattle National Bank. Besides his banking career, Furth organized the California Land & Stock Co. in 1884, which owned a 14,000-acre farm in Lincoln County and he built and operated urban and interurban electric lines, becoming president of the Seattle Electric Co. and Puget Sound Electric Railway. He was a trustee of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce for 24 years and was an active Mason. Mr. Furth passed away on June 2, 1914 in Seattle, aged 73. Photograph c. 1892.
A horse drawn float carrying a 19 member "Cowgirl Band" at the inaugural 1910 Pendleton Round-up. The band are dressed in uniforms consisting of wide-brimmed hats, white scarves, buttoned jackets and long skirts. Photograph by W. S. Bowman, c. 1910.
Portrait of a Native American, known by some as "Blind Toby," who lived in a tepee with his wife "Indian Nancy" on Water Street in Ellensburg, Washington, located in Whatcom County where he raised horses. Photograph by Otto W. Pautzke, c. 1905.
Portrait of Yakima person, known by some as "Indian Nancy," who lived in a tepee with her husband "Blind Toby" on Water Street in Ellensburg, Washington, located in Whatcom County. Nancy had worked for a number of Ellensburg women, died about six years after this picture was taken and is buried in Toppenish, Washington. Photograph by Otto W. Pautzke, c. 1905.
Portrait of Yakima person, known by some as "Indian Nancy," who lived in a tepee with her husband "Blind Toby" on Water Street in Ellensburg, Washington, located in Whatcom County. Nancy had worked for a number of Ellensburg women, died about six years after this picture was taken and is buried in Toppenish, Washington. Photograph by Otto W. Pautzke, c. 1905.
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.
Portrait of a child from Coeur d'Alene nation, whose aboriginal territory spans more than 5 million acres of today's central Washington, Idaho and Montana. Photograph by J.A. Rockford Brockman, Washington, c. 1906.
E.D. Warbass holding open a rough hewn wooden gate to his property, named Idlewild on Friday Harbor in the San Juan Islands. According to the Coast Magazine article where this photograph was used, the Idlewild home was originally built by General George Pickett during the 1859 San Juan Pig War as an American camp against British forces. Photograph c. 1904.
A Family on walking path in Kinnear Park, located in the Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. The park is named after the land's original owner, George Kinnear, who had moved to Seattle from Illinois in 1874, promoted the first wagon road through Snoqualmie Pass and organized the Immigration Board. Kinnear sold the park's wooded land to the City of Seattle in 1889 for $1.00. Photograph c. 1906.
A group of children wading in Green Lake, located in Seattle, Washington. Green Lake was donated to the City of Seattle by the State of Washington in 1905 and included in the Olmsted Brothers' comprehensive parks plan, undergoing major changes over the subsequent 15 years. Photograph c. 1903.
This home at 1711 Elm Street in Sumner was added to the National Register in October of 1984. It was built in 1889 for the Herbert Williams family by John Driskill, contractor. The home was purchased by Adolph and Helene Loncke circa 1900. Decades later it was transformed into the Manor House Restaurant and in 2000, the Sleighbells Christmas Shoppe & Cafe. Photograph by M.D. True (Puyallup) c. 1906.
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.
The head of a stag is mounted over the large fireplace of Antlers Lodge on the shores of Lake Cushman, Washington. In 1925 the lodge was burned to the ground in a planned blaze. It is now under 160 feet of water in the expanded Lake Cushman. Photograph by L.F. Murdock (Seattle) c. 1904.
This is a view of the one-story Cloud Cap Inn located on the northeast shoulder of Oregon's Mt. Hood. Cables are visible that were used to tie down the inn, a necessary measure due to fierce winds. Photograph c. 1907.
Eight men and women pose at the log steps of the Cloud Cap Inn, built on Mt. Hood, Oregon, at an elevation of 6,000 feet. The Inn was built in 1889 using amabilis firs and given its name by Nannie Wood, wife of Col. C.E.S. Wood. Guests had to travel via railroad to Hood River, and then be transported via stagecoach high up the mountain, a ride that took several hours. By the time of this photograph, the Cloud Cap Inn was only operating during the spring and summer due to the 60 feet of snow falling during winters. It is on the Oregon Register of Historic Places. Photograph c. 1907.
Chanslor & Lyon Motor Supply Co. in Seattle. Chanslor & Lyon's offices and salesrooms were located at 916 E. Pike St. The company was one of three large automobile supply houses in the Broadway - E. Pike St. area which was fast becoming the automobile center of the city. The other two firms were the Motor Equipment Co. and Hatch & Dodd. Chanslor & Lyon featured Hartford Tires. This c. 1909 view of the company's store front has two men standing at the entrance of the store while a sporty automobile with two occupants is parked outside. Photograph c. 1909.
The Waldorf Apartments and S.H. Poynor Furniture Store at the corner of Pike and Seventh Avenue in Seattle, Washington. The building was established in November of 1908 with 2700 sq. ft. of floor space. A year later, the business had grown to cover 10,800 sq. ft. and carried a full line of furniture, carpets, rugs and household items. Photograph c. 1909.
The Olympia Hotel on Main between 7th and 8th Streets in Olympia, Washington, located in Thurston County. The four-storied Victorian structure was built in 1889 at a cost of $100,000. The hotel advertised itself as "Headquarters for Commercial Men" with "Fine Sample Rooms." It was destroyed by fire in 1904. Photograph c. 1904.
The Governor's Mansion under construction in Olympia, Washington, located in Thurston County. The red brick, Georgian nineteen-room residence was designed by Tacoma architects Russell & Babcock at a cost of $35,000. While the structure was remodeled and enlarged in 1974, it remains the Washington State Governor residence. Photograph c. 1908.
Grade school in Marysville, Washington, c. 1904. Marysville, north of Everett, had a growing population of about 1,200 c. 1904. Eight teachers were employed in their schools where promising students were able to achieve an eighth grade certificate. Here one teacher stands beside her pupils, most of them appearing to be of elementary school age. Photograph c. 1904.
The Pacific Lutheran Seminary, formerly the Olympia Collegiate Institute, on Second Avenue in Olympia, Washington, located in Thurston County. The seminary was established by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1907 as an educational facility, primarily directed towards training ministers. After the seminary was damaged by fire in 1914, the church merged the Olympia school with the new Pacific Lutheran College in Tacoma. Photograph c. 1909.
The Eagle Furniture Company, Hotel Barker and Ernst Hardware Company at 514-18 Pike St. in Seattle, Washington. The Ernst Hardware Company was established in 1889 by Charles c. Ernst, renamed Ernst Brothers in 1902 and incorporated in 1907. The store expanded to 10,000 square feet with warehouses of combined floor space totaling 13,000 square feet. Ernst was headed by F.A. Ernst as president, Charles c. Ernst as vice-president and Wm. F. Eckert as secretary. Photograph by Webster & Stevens, c. 1909.
Laborers outside The Olympia Oyster Company warehouse and shipping department at Horr's Dock, West 4th & Tilton in Olympia, Washington, located in Thurston County. The company was owned by W.H. Kneeland and was the largest oyster company in Washington state, controlled one-third of the oyster beds on the Puget Sound and shipped to all parts of the Pacific Northwest, including Canada and Alaska. Other competing Oyster businesses at his time included J.J. Brenner Oyster Co., the Capital City Oyster Co., and the Olympia Packing Co. Photograph c. 1909.
The Home Restaurant and Pioneer Cigar Store on Naches Avenue in Naches, Washington, located in Yakima Valley, c. 1907. A sign advertises the "Offices of the Naches City Land Co., J.W. Barker, mgr," with "lots and acre tracts for sale, small payments down, easy terms for balance." Photograph c. 1907.
