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Elephant Rock On The Coast Of Washington

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:28:40 +0100

Title:
Elephant Rock On The Coast Of Washington
(WA), Linen PM 1948 Jul-05

Description:
The pounding surf on the shores of the rugged Olympic Peninsula has carved many weird and interesting figures. Here is Elephant Rock, one of the strangest.

Bein Good Is Such A Lonesome Job

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:53 +0100

Title:
Bein Good Is Such A Lonesome Job
(WA), Divided Back PM 1910 Aug-06

It Is No Crime To Kiss In

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:53 +0100

Title:
It Is No Crime To Kiss In
(WA), Divided Back unused

Description:
“To Err is human, to kiss, divine”

It Is No Crime To Kiss In

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:53 +0100

Title:
It Is No Crime To Kiss In
(WA), Divided Back unused

Description:
“To Err is human, to kiss, divine”

It Is No Crime To Kiss In

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:53 +0100

Title:
It Is No Crime To Kiss In
(WA), Divided Back unused

Description:
“To Err is human, to kiss, divine”

Seattle At Night, Pioneeer Square

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:52 +0100

Title:
Seattle At Night, Pioneeer Square
(WA), Divided Back PM 1942 Sep-24

This A Quiet Place Wish You Were Here

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:52 +0100

Title:
This A Quiet Place Wish You Were Here
(WA), Divided Back PM 1910 Aug-06

New Colman Dock

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:51 +0100

Title:
New Colman Dock
(WA), Divided Back unused

Description:
The Word “Potlatch” is from the Chinook Jargon, the trade language of the North Pacific Coast Indians. It means a gift or to give. In a larger sense the Indians applied it to a great festival at which gifts were made. Seattle's Golden Potlatch will be great festival in celebration of the gift of gold by Alaska to the world through this City, the gateway of the Northern Empire. It will be a week of carnival and jollity. The opening date, July 17, is the anniversary of the arrival of the first treasure ship.

George Street

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:47 +0100

Title:
George Street
Edmonds (WA), Divided Back PM 1914 Jan-26

Lobby Hotel Washington

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:47 +0100

Title:
Lobby Hotel Washington
Aberdeen (WA), Divided Back unused

Edmonds

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:47 +0100

Title:
Edmonds
Edmonds (WA), Divided Back unused

Description:
The industrial City Eight miles North of Seattle City limits

Heron Street

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:47 +0100

Title:
Heron Street
Aberdeen (WA), Divided Back PM 1908 Jul-16

View Down Eighth St

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:47 +0100

Title:
View Down Eighth St
Hoquiam (WA), Divided Back unused

Surf Bathing

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:46 +0100

Title:
Surf Bathing
Moclips (WA), Divided Back unused

McClips Beach Hotel

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:46 +0100

Title:
McClips Beach Hotel
Moclips (WA), Divided Back PM 1910 Aug-10

Heron Street Looking East

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:46 +0100

Title:
Heron Street Looking East
Aberdeen (WA), Divided Back PM 1915 May-17

Aberdeen

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:46 +0100

Title:
Aberdeen
Aberdeen (WA), Divided Back PM 1909 Jul-01

Pacific Beach

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:45 +0100

Title:
Pacific Beach
Pacific Beach (WA), Divided Back unused

Spray Rock Granville Point

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:45 +0100

Title:
Spray Rock Granville Point
Moclips (WA), Divided Back PM 1908 Dec-15

Children's Home

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:45 +0100

Title:
Children's Home
Band Des Moines (WA), Divided Back unused

Pacific Beach Hotel Sun Room

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:45 +0100

Title:
Pacific Beach Hotel Sun Room
Pacific Beach (WA), Divided Back unused

Puget Sound Sand Fleas

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:43 +0100

Title:
Puget Sound Sand Fleas
(WA), Divided Back unused

Most Unique Shop In The World

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:43 +0100

Title:
Most Unique Shop In The World
(WA), Divided Back unused

Description:
Visit ye olde curiosity shop Est'd 1899. 1 – Whale Jaw Bones, 1 ton each, 21½ feet, largest in U. S. 2 – Skull of alaska Buffalo, Lagest in the world. 3 – Giant Clam Shell, weighs 161 pounds, From Equator. 4 – Ivory Tusk of Alaska Elephant. (Mammoth). 5 – Head of Arctic Walrus with ivory tusks. 6 – Shell 855 pounds, fired form U. S. Fort Worden. 7- Navajo rugs, from Navojo Indians. 8 – Indian Totem Poles. 9 – Saw of a Saw Fish. 10 – Indian Cooking Basket, 11 – Old Ship Lanterns, brass. 12 – Hat worn by Chief Seattle. 13 – Alaska Snail, petrifield, 67 pounds. 14 – Chileaf Blanket form Alaska. Ground Floor at Colman Dock Entrance, Seattle. Visitors in Seattle should see: The Pike Place Market; Zoological Gardens; The Smith Tower, 42 stories, Day and Night View; U. S. Ship Canal, second to Panama; Mt. Rainier; Snoqualmie Falls, 100 feet higher than Niagara; Big Trees in Schmitz Park; Sea Bathing at Alki Beach; View of harbor from Colman dock Rotunda; Battleships and great docks; U. S. Navy Yard at Bremerton, 1 hour ride; Municipal Frozen Fish Aquarium in Spokane St. Dock; Tropical Conservatories in Volunteer Park; State Museum on University Campus; 13 Totem Poles and 3 Mounds of Shells at “Totem Place,” cor. California Ave, and Palm. The Seattle Chamber of Commerce and Alaska Bureau will give you free literature, maps and information about sight seeing. Don't fail to visit the world famous ye olde Curiosity shop and the carvings on grains of rice; the Lord's Prayer on a pine head; Fleas in dresses; A duckbill Plattypus; a devil fish, wolf fish, musk ox skull, camel bells, old ship lanterns; Narwhasl tusk, Aztec potttery; ships in bottles, old guns; Indian masks and real hand-carved Indian Totem Poles one to forty feet tall. Bit Variety of Antique brass and bronze and a wonderful display of Ivory Carvings. Odd rings and beads; rare novelties, Indian baskets, bracelets and rings, daggers and thousands of other curious Shop. Everybody welcome ot Ye Old Curiousity Shop. Est'd 1899 by J. E. Standley – Beats the Dickens. At foot of Marion street, the ground floor entrance to Colman Dock. Look for the Whale Jaw Bones.

Forestry Building At The Alaska – Yukon – Pacific Exposition

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:42 +0100

Title:
Forestry Building At The Alaska – Yukon – Pacific Exposition
(WA), Divided Back unused

Description:
Forestry Building at the Alaska – Yukon – Pacific Exposition, constructed with logs from the timber hub of the Northwest, Snohomish County.

Yachting At Seattle

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:42 +0100

Title:
Yachting At Seattle
(WA), Divided Back unused

Description:
“On the Home Stretch” National Hotel – Seattles most popular and centrally located family hotel. Rooms 50 - 75 $100 for 16 years under the same management 1st aver & Columbia

The A. Y. P. Allegorical Painting

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:41 +0100

Title:
The A. Y. P. Allegorical Painting
(WA), Divided Back PM 1908 Aug-26

Description:
The dominant figures stand for Alaska, Yukon and the Pacific. The Shell, laden with gold from Alaska and the Yukon, the fruit and flowers from the Pacific States, represents, the shipping interests. The Salmon portray the fishing Industries. The Totem Poles stand for a by gone age giving place to a new creation indicated by the outlines in the background of the exposition Buildings of 1909, dimly seen in their new glory.

Frederick & Nelson Furniture

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:37 +0100

Title:
Frederick & Nelson Furniture
(WA), Divided Back unused

Seattle To-Day & Yesterday

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:34 +0100

Title:
Seattle To-Day & Yesterday
(WA), Divided Back unused

Description:
Seattle To-day and Yesterday. To-day: the U. S. Custom House and Post Office on the corner of 3rd Ave. and Union Street, Seattle. Yesterday: The same spot in 1883. the First University Bldg., near the spot now occupied by the White & Henry Bldgs., in the scene above is shown at the left.

Seattle At Night, Pioneeer Square

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:33 +0100

Title:
Seattle At Night, Pioneeer Square
(WA), Divided Back PM 1914 Nov-12

Seattle Hotel Looking Up James Street And Yesler Way

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:29 +0100

Title:
Seattle Hotel Looking Up James Street And Yesler Way
(WA), Divided Back unused

Alaska Building

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:27 +0100

Title:
Alaska Building
(WA), Divided Back unused

Description:
The Alaska is a stately sky-scraper standing upon Second avenue, at Cherry street. It was the first of its class erected, and is unsurpassed in its simple beauty, by any later structure.

Souvenir April Twenty-First Nineteen Seven

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:23 +0100

Title:
Souvenir April Twenty-First Nineteen Seven
(WA), Divided Back unused

Description:
Cascade Mountain and Lake Washington. Academy of the Holy Names 21st Ave. and Roy Str. Capitol Hill. Seattle, Wash.

Butterfly Who Are You?

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:21 +0100

Title:
Butterfly Who Are You?
(WA), Divided Back PM 1907 Feb-00

Description:
The Grand Opera triumph of two worlds. Grand Opera House, Seattle, Wash. Five Performances Beginning Thursday, Feb. 28 Matinee Saturday. Mail Orders filled Wednesday, February 20, Box Office Sale, Saturday, Feb. 23rd Prices, $1.00 to $3.00. Mr. Henry W. Savage Offers his New English Grand Opera Company Specially organized for the first American production of Puccini's Japanese Operatic Masterpiece, in 3 Acts. Madam Butterfly Direct from its record-breaking season in New York Grand Opera Chorus and Orchestra of 60.

Ye Olde Curiosity Shop

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:21 +0100

Title:
Ye Olde Curiosity Shop
(WA), Divided Back unused

Description:
(1) Jaw bones of a Whale, largest in U. S. Weigh 1 ton each, are over 20 ft. long. (2) Alaska Indian Carved Totem Pole. (3) Giant Clam Shell weigh 161 lbs. (4) Shoulder Blade of a Whale. (5) 855 lbs. Shell fired from U. S. Ft. Worden. (6) Ivory Tusks in a Walrus Skull. (7) Ivory Tusk of a Mammoth, Prehistoric Elephant lived in Alaska 30,000 yrs. Ago. (8) Pretrified Snail, weighs 67 lbs. (9) Puget Sound Indians Cooking Basket. (10) Totemic Drums and Cedar Bark Mats.

The Golden Potlatch 97

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:20 +0100

Title:
The Golden Potlatch 97
(WA), Divided Back PM 1911 May-20

Description:
Chief Seattle. Siwash Indian were sellers. Princess Angeline. The Golden Potlatch, 97. A hot time in a cool place. The Potlatch, lasting several days : “It was the crowning glory of Indian life, and worth the meed of a thousand victories over the foe, confined to no particular tribe but to the met with everywhere along the Coast.” “The great day, set so many sums or moons ahead, arrived, great was the interest and excitement of the occasion. From far and near assembled the invited guests and tribes and with feasting, singing, chanting and dancing the bounteous hospitality was distributed.” Come! Seattle's Great Carnival Week of July 17th, 1911 Welcome! “With the scenery of Puget Sound at her feet. The lakes within her borders, the mountains seen upon all sides, the forests which clothe the mountains - few other cities, the world round, are so beautifully environed as Seattle.”

The Old Hotel Washington

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:20 +0100

Title:
The Old Hotel Washington
(WA), Divided Back PM 1912 Apr-18

Description:
The Old Hotel Washington in 1906. The Hill shown was 200 feet above the present street level, to realize the change see post card 3058.

Seattle's Golden Potlatch 97

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:16 +0100

Title:
Seattle's Golden Potlatch 97
(WA), Divided Back PM 1911 Jul-06

Description:
Seattle's Golden Potlatch '97 July 17th to 22nd, 1911. A hot time in a cool Place we'll give you on that date If Potlatch Week You'll visit us and help us celebrate.

Climbing Mt. Rainier

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:15 +0100

Title:
Climbing Mt. Rainier
(WA), Divided Back PM 1910 Apr-29

42 Story L. C. Smith Building

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:02:15 +0100

Title:
42 Story L. C. Smith Building
(WA), Divided Back unused

Description:
Close -in view of water front showing 42 Story L. C. Smith Building three blocks away

Principal Scene In The Great Naval Battle Spectacle

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:01:48 +0100

Title:
Principal Scene In The Great Naval Battle Spectacle
NN (WA), Divided Back unused

Description:
Principal Scene in the great naval Battle Spectacle “The Battle of the Monitor and Merrimac.” A thrilling reproduction of the fight between the first ironclads ever built. Now exhibited at the Alaska – Yukon – Pacific Exposition. Seattle, Washington U. S. a.

Washington

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:01:46 +0100

Title:
Washington
(WA), Divided Back unused

Description:
Vestibule of White House. National Soldiers Home

The Spokane And Inland Electric Railway

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:01:40 +0100

Title:
The Spokane And Inland Electric Railway
Palouse (WA), Divided Back unused

Section Of Seattle Fire 1910