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C52158-5

ca. 1888. Copy exposure of historical negative. Taken approximately around 1888, this viewpoint of Tacoma shows a rapidly growing city. Fallen trees and stumps in the foreground seem to indicate more development will be occurring. Pacific Avenue is at the far right with many buildings already constructed. There are a few buildings perched at the edge of the deep ravine known as Galliher's Gulch. The structures near the photograph's center would eventually make up the city's brewery district. The Northern Pacific Railroad would aid in the growth of the brewery district by running a spur track from the waterfront to the area. Near left center is the multi-storied Pacific Brewing & Malting Co. Malt House. Within ten years of this photograph, Pacific Brewing & Malting was advertising itself as "one of the most complete brewing and malting plants on the Pacific Coast." Copy made August 31, 1950.


Cityscapes; Commercial streets--Tacoma--1880-1890; Tree stumps--Tacoma; Canyons--Tacoma; Pacific Brewing & Malting Co. (Tacoma); Brewing industry--Tacoma--1880-1890;

C8538-2

ca. 1889. Copy negative made July 6, 1939 of a photograph of the old Capital building in Olympia where the Constitutional Congress met in 1889 to prepare the document that completed Washington's transition from territory to state. The building is surrounded by a white picket fence. Several people relax in the grassy area next to building. Photograph ordered by Mr. Short of Tacoma Times. Photograph reproduced in the Tacoma Times 07-19-1939 p. 27 TPL-8245


Capitols--Washington Territory;

C8538-2A

ca. 1889. Cropped version of C8535, image 2, of old Capital Building in Olympia circa 1889 where documents were prepared to complete Washington's transition from territory to state. The two-story building with bell tower is surrounded by a white picket fence. Several people lounge on the grassy lawn next to the fence.


Capitols--Washington Territory;

C72137-2

ca. 1889. Roster of Tacoma Police Department, 1889. According to the Tacoma Police Department's website, City Ordinance No. 77 officially created the Tacoma Police Department on April 15, 1885. This was the roster of the police department four years later in 1889; photo and identification provided by Carl Jacobs. Lower Row: Jack Keating, Jack Fitzgerald, John Smith, Mike Day, Hans Larson, Orvil Kaylor, William Solstein, John Flett, Chas. June, Ed Woods, Jack Ellison. Second Row: - - Gildchrist, Arthur Hice, clerk, Tom Fisher, Sterling Leroy, Capt. Leslie Ellis, Steve Murphy, Al Harris, - - Crawford, Jack Kinney, Minor Cudahy. Third Row: Wm. Westover, James Donivan, Ed Flanigan, W.H. Grinnell, J.B. McCoy, Capt. A.S. Read, Jack Martin, - - Harris, - - Stevens, Martin Kinney, Harvey Miller, Con Cane. Top Row: John Cunningham, Minor Btotten, - - Strand, Louis Granwich, D.O. Smith, Joe Bush, Jack Burke, Fred Ewing, Chas. Myers, Bill Hawley, - - Butcher and Bill Casey. Chief of Police in 1889, not shown, was listed on the TPD website as A.M. Chesney. TPL-7117


Tacoma Police Department (Tacoma); Police--Tacoma--1880-1890;

A2220-2

ca. 1889. Copy of a map of the Eastern Section of Washington, early history events, to 1889, marked on map. (WSHS).


Maps;

TPL-5106

ca. 1889. These are the members of the first Washington State House of Representatives who were elected in 1889. Their small oval portraits are placed within a shield and under the words "First General Assembly of House of Representatives, Olympia Washington" and the date "1889." Original photo copied by Richards Studio.


Politicians; Legislative bodies--Washington;

C8580-2

ca. 1889. Copy of an old print, bird's eye view of Tacoma in 1889 issued by Geo. W. Traver, real estate & investment agent. In the center is the aerial view of 1889 Tacoma. It is surrounded by drawings of important Tacoma landmarks. Included are St. Peters Church, Jaeger Block, Holmes & Bull, Dickson Bro., Tacoma Lumber & Manufacturing, Puget Sound Ironworks, City Market, Central School, Hotel Fife, T.P. & B. Transfer Co. Stables, Duimette Building, Merchants National Bank, Mount "Tacoma" (Rainier) and Waters the Grocer. TPL-9665


Maps--1880-1890;

C117132-29

ca. 1889. The Emerson School, which was located at South 4th and St. Helens, was one of only a handful of schools in Tacoma that was not replaced with a newer school building when it was torn down. Built in 1889 and named after Ralph Waldo Emerson, it replaced the "Old North School" which was the first school built by the East Tacoma School District No. 13. Emerson offered both elementary and high school classes, and from 1890 to 1892 it housed the offices of the Superintendent and the School Board. After it closed in 1913, it was used to house soldiers during World War I. It was demolished in 1920. (Copy made from glass plate, October 3, 1958.) (Olsen: For the Record, p. 45-46)


Emerson School (Tacoma); Public schools--Tacoma--1880-1890;

C8580-5

75 members of the Washington State Constitutional Convention, which met at Olympia during July and August of 1889, commencing July 4th. Each delegate was identified by a small number placed in the corner of the portrait. The assembled delegates chose James P. Hoyt of King County as their convention president. As can be seen, all the delegates were men. Only one of the seventy five delegates was born in Washington Territory. Several came from Europe, one from Canada, and eighteen different states were claimed as birth places. The convention remained in session until August 22, 1889. The constitution it framed was ratified on October 1, 1889, and President Harrison proclaimed Washington a state on November 11, 1889. Copied for the Tacoma Times newspaper but not used, 7-17-1939, fifty years after the first "Congress" met. ALBUM 4. (Washington: the Evergreen State p. 118-120; An Illustrated History of the State of Washington, p. 188) TPL-8244


Constitutional conventions--Olympia;

TPL-1034

ca. 1890. Built in a modified Queen Anne style, the Annie Wright Seminary took its name from the daughter of Northern Pacific Railway president Charles B. Wright who came to Tacoma in the 1880's. The school was designed by Boone & Meeker, architects, and built by F.W. Lewis in 1883. It opened in September, 1884, with 94 girls as students. Annie Wright Seminary moved to new quarters at 827 Tacoma Avenue No. in 1924; the stately old school with its sharp gables and turrets was then demolished. Only the gymnasium and a remaining building remained to be leased to the Tacoma Drama League in 1925. G10.1-091


Private schools--Tacoma; Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1880-1890;

TPL-2924

ca. 1890. This house was built in 1889 for Henry Hewitt Jr., one of the founders of the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. Designed by Andrew J. Smith, it was considered to be one of the finest houses in Tacoma. The three story "castle" was occupied by several Hewitts, as well as Edgar T. Short and E. E. Rhodes. It was demolished in 1957 to make way for a parking lot for the Central Lutheran Church.


Hewitt, Henry J.--Homes & haunts;

TPL-4108

ca. 1890. In 1890 Tacoma Fire Dept. Station # 3 was at 1212 North "G", near the corner of "G" and McCarver Streets. According to the 2nd Annual Report of the Tacoma Paid Fire Department, for the fiscal year ending May 31, 1891, Amil Krantz was listed as Captain in charge of at least five men. Krantz, age 36, was originally from Germany and was a former sailor. The station had a Silsby patent, fourth class rotary engine weighing in at 7,000 pounds which was drawn by two horses. In addition, there was an American Fire Apparatus hose wagon with two horses, which weighed 4,000 pounds and could carry 1000 feet of cotton hose. In this photograph from ca. 1890, the engines are decorated with flapping flags and garlands; it may have been taken on a holiday, perhaps the 4th of July or Memorial Day. Known as the Oldtown Station, Station # 3 occupied this building from 1885-1908. (2nd Annual Report, Tacoma Paid Fire Department, p. 24-25; 100 Years of Firefighting in the City of Destiny Tacoma, Washington, p. 30 )


Tacoma Fire Department (Tacoma); Fire stations--Tacoma--1890-1900; Fire engines & equipment--Tacoma; Fire fighters--Tacoma--1890-1900; Horses--Tacoma;

C148207-1

ca. 1890. Copy of customer print. Sepia portrait of J.B. (Jesse) Sutton, first president of Puget Sound National Bank. Pulling up stakes from Quincy, Michigan, the 62-year-old banker arrived in the "fastest-growing town on the Pacific Coast" in 1890. By the late 1880's, Tacoma was home to six national banks and six state and private banks. Sutton was to add one more, the Puget Sound Savings Bank which incorporated on May 8, 1890. He led the bank through the slowing Tacoma economy in the early 1890's and survived the bank closures that affected many Tacoma banks after the 1893 stock market panic. Sutton passed away in 1904. Prior to his death, the board of directors commended him for his "conservatism, good judgement (sic) and high sense of honor" that led the bank during the "stormy period of the great financial crisis of 1893, and establishing it firmly in the confidence of the people which it enjoys today." Puget Sound Savings Bank would evolve into the Puget Sound National Bank which celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1965. (Provorse: Banking on Independence)


Sutton, J.B.; Banking--Tacoma--1890-1900; Bankers--Tacoma;

C8538-1

ca. 1890. Frank C. Ross (right) and Charles A.E. Naubert were two of the early boosters of Tacoma. This photograph is a copy negative made in July of 1939 of an old tintype, taken around 1890 when they were in their early thirties, and were actively developing the Tacoma & Lake City Railway. The T & LC started at No. 26th and Union, ran south past Snake Lake to Manitou, and from there to American Lake. Although the railroad operated for less then ten years, it was instrumental in opening both the north end and the south end of Tacoma to development. Charles Naubert died in 1940; Frank Ross in 1947. Copy was made for Mr. Short of the Tacoma Times. Ross & Naubert was a real estate firm in Tacoma. (Casey Jones Locker, by F. Shaw pp.79-82)


Naubert, C. A. E.; Ross, Frank C.; Business people--Tacoma--1890-1900;

TPL-4117

ca. 1890. Fire Station #2, Tacoma Fire Department. View of firemen posed in the act of responding to an alarm, taken in the fire station's bedroom. Fire fighters had to be prepared to respond at all hours of the day and night and speed was of the essence. The actual date of this sepia photograph is not known; it may have been roughly in the 1890's. A similar picture is TPL 4118 which portrays the men of Station No. 5 in the same situation. Engine Co. #2 was first established in 1889 at 1735 South "E" (Fawcett). According to the 2nd Annual Tacoma Paid Fire Department Annual Report, fiscal year ending May 31, 1891, the company roster consisted of six men, including Captain P.W. Chapman, age 22, a former salesman. He appears to have been the 4th captain in less than a year at this station. In 1907, a new Station No. 2 was built at 2701 Tacoma Avenue So.; subsequent remodeling was done in 1935. The station is on both the City and National Registry. (2nd Annual Report Tacoma Paid Fire Department, p. 22; 100 Years of Firefighting in the City of Destiny Tacoma, Washington, p. 17, 42)


Tacoma Fire Department (Tacoma); Fire stations--Tacoma--1890-1900; Fire fighters--Tacoma--1890-1900;

2200-1

ca. 1890. Copy of an old photograph ordered by Virginia Rosch. The photograph is of a woman and a small boy in front of the Bay View Hotel and Restaurant. The sign for the restaurant reads "Open Day and Night." (WSHS)


Rosch, Virginia--Associated objects;

C84386-1

ca. 1890. Copy of customer print. A woman, elegantly dressed in a long sleeved black blouse and long black skirt, has one hand on an ornate wooden chair. She wears a watch tucked in the waistband of her skirt; it is attached to a long gold chain. Her lighter colored hair is rolled and probably fastened in the back. This undated sepia photograph was copied for Lindstrom's Home Furnishings on August 11, 1954; the original was possibly taken in the 1890's.


Portraits; Women--Clothing & dress; Chairs; Lindstrom's Home Furnishings (Tacoma);

C117132-27

ca. 1890. This copy of an old lantern slide shows the original Annie Wright Seminary at 611 Division Avenue as it appeared around 1890. The large building, with its tall vertical proportions, steeply pitched roofs, towers and decorative shingles, appears to be in the Queen Anne style of architecture. The school, named in honor of the daughter of its benefactor, Charles Barstow Wright, opened on September 3, 1884, with a student body of 93 girls from Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, and one from Alaska. In 1924, a new school was built on a ten-acre campus a few miles west on Tacoma Avenue, and this building was dismantled. The site where it stood is home to Stadium Thriftway and the Chevrolet dealership recently purchased by Bruce Titus. ( Date of original glass plate may have been about 1890; copy made on October 3, 1958.)


Annie Wright Seminary (Tacoma)--1880-1890; Private schools--Tacoma;

C117132-35

ca. 1890. This photograph, made from an old glass plate negative, shows the Tacoma Hotel as it looked in the 1890s. The massive modified Tudor design structure was built in 1884 by F.W. Lewis, contractor, using the architectural plans of McKim, Mead & White/Stanford White. Built of red brick and white stucco with white stone trim, the hotel cost $267,000. It was 300 feet long and five stories high and covered an entire block between 9th & 10th Sts. on A St. in downtown Tacoma. The lavish hotel had a beautiful view of Mount Rainier and Commencement Bay. Over the years guests at the hotel included Sarah Bernhardt, Babe Ruth, Teddy Roosevelt and Calvin Coolidge. The showpiece of Tacoma, the hotel was reduced to ruins on October 17, 1935, in a spectacular fire, and never rebuilt. (Copy made on October 3, 1958.) (Martin: Tacoma: A Pictorial History, p. 149) TPL-9500


Tacoma Hotel (Tacoma); Hotels--Tacoma;

C52158-1

ca. 1890. Copy of customer's print. A parade/procession marches south down Pacific Avenue in 1890. At the bottom of the photograph are six riders on horseback followed by a drum major and small marching band. Military units are next. In the far left corner is Nels P. Neilson's Boots & Shoes (building with "Redfront" sign). The Luzon Building is at 1302-04 Pacific Avenue (left side, center). The historic building was demolished in September of 2009. Copy of photograph made on August 31, 1950. (TPL-3261)


Parades & processions--Tacoma--1890-1900; Commercial streets--Tacoma--1890-1900; Luzon Building (Tacoma);

C163008-5

ca. 1890s. This is one of the drugstores operated by Edward A. Roice on Sixth Avenue in the 1890's. During that period he had moved his pharmacy three different times but remained on Sixth Avenue. It is not known which particular address (2407-11, 2801-03, or 2815) on Sixth the above photograph reflected. This section of the drugstore was filled with customers examining items for sale or waiting for prescriptions to be filled.


E.A. Roice Drugstore (Tacoma); Drugstores--Tacoma--1890-1900;

C139793-2

ca. 1890. A glimpse into Steilacoom's past as two buildings on the north side of Commercial Street, between Main and Balch, were photographed ca. 1890. The smaller building to the right was built by George Weller in 1850 as a butcher shop. Henry Rupp later purchased it and operated a beer hall in it during the 1880's and 1890's. At the time of this photograph the larger two-story building was divided into a post office (on the left) and a butcher shop. There was a residence on the second floor. Both buildings were torn down in 1938.


Beer halls--Steilacoom; Post offices--Steilacoom; Facades--Steilacoom;

Tacoma Fire Department Records

  • 1.3.2
  • c. 1890-1982

Includes photographs, scrapbooks, fire statistics, fire investigation images, day books, reports, and other material related to the operations of the Tacoma Fire Department.

Tacoma Fire Department

931-2

ca. 1890. Reprint of photograph of military men and some civilians assembled outside of tent. Photograph ordered by Edgar T. Short for his column in the Tacoma Times.


Military personnel--United States--1890-1900; Military uniforms--1890-1900; Tents; Clothing & dress--1890-1900;

A6038-1

ca. 1890. Old photograph copied around 1937, showing a wagon, perhaps a fire engine, being pulled at speed by two horses on what seems to be Tacoma's A Street in the 1890s. Tower in background appears to be that of City Hall. (filed with Argentum)


Carts & wagons--Tacoma--1890-1900; Horse teams;

C7234-4

ca. 1890. The original of this photograph was taken circa 1890. Several masted sailing ships are waiting to take on shipments of lumber at an unidentified dock believed to be on Tacoma's waterfront. Tacoma would become known as the "Lumber Capital of the World" due to its many sawmills and access to vast forestlands.


Lumber industry--Tacoma--1890-1900; Cargo ships--Tacoma--1890-1900; Sailing ships--Tacoma--1890-1900; Shipping--Tacoma--1890-1900;

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