Scenes

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"Scenes"

Scenes001

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Date Taken

Notes

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~1900

Steilacoom waterfront looking southwesterly toward Saltar's Point and Wallace House.

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"3-mile Tree". Old oak tree with Steilacoom sign attached

Oxen hauling logs from the forest in the Steilacoom area

1890s

1892

Close up of Orr property cropped from "Scenes004" above

Aerial view of Steilacoom. Shows view from waterfront in the foreground to Americal Lake far in the background

1945

1940-41

Waterfront from end of 5th Street. Masonic Hall in background

McNeil boat dock at bottom of Union Avenue.

View of Puget Sound from Starling Street. Street car tracks paralleled Starling Street.

1920s

1916

McNeil boat dock at bottom of Union Avenue.

1900

Railroad track, beach, Wilkes Street, dock in background. Lineman working on pole.

1914

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Silver Beach area showing street car tracks, houses along Lafayette Street

~1895

Balch Street looking toward Balch store on right at water front

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Waterfront from end of 5th Street. Masonic Hall in background

1900

1976

1908

1900

1976

1909?

~1905

1900

1897

1899

~1895

~1916

~1905

`1900

1905

1894

~1905

1905

1930s

Sep 9, 1939

1916

1945

1930s

1940

1923

1950s?

1945

1940-41

Unk

1912

1900

~1900

Unk

1910

~1895

1910

1999

1950s

1908

1905

Summer 1920

1908

Jan, 1904

1908

~1912

May 14, 1920

Steilacoom celebrating U. S. Bicentennial

Silver Beach looking toward Steilacoom

Steilacoom water front looking toward Masonic Hall and Waverly Hotel

McNeil (left) and Fox (right) Islands; Masonic Hall at right

Dawson, Yukon Territory, where many Steilacoom men sought their fortune during the Gold Rush

Group on Steilacoom beach; Eudocia Bair at extreme left

Water front, Masonic Hall, Waverly Hotel, Cherry Cottage

Summer camp at Holdens Beach, DuPont

Kennedy's camp across Chambers Creek from the paper mill, and toward the mouth

Water front near Gulch and Fifth Street waterway

Site of Chief Leschi hanging near Steilacoom Lake. Old Custer School in background. Ezra Meeker and Stephen Judson shown in photo. Read about Chief Leschi's hanging in 1856, his reburial in 1895, and the clearing of his name in 2004.

Site of Chief Leschi hanging. On the prairie (Steilacoom Boulevard would be in the background). Ezra Meeker and Stephen Judson shown in photo.

~1916

Site of Iron Springs (for which Iron Springs Hotel was named)

~1905

Site of Iron Springs (for which Iron Springs Hotel was named)

Lafayette and Wilkes, looking east.

Commercial Street looking northeasterly.

Commercial Street looking west. August DeClerk and O. K. Cheney on sidewalk at right.

Snow scene at Sixth and Lafayette (Stevens). Shows Justamere Cottage, The Overlook, and Saltar's Point

Commercial Street looking northeastly from Wilkes Street

Pierce and Starling, looking north

Aerial photo of Steilacoom. Used in Steilacoom Transfer Company calendar.

Result of fire on Lafayette Street. $15,000 damage and loss of 4 stores burned to ground

Aerial shot of downtown Steilacoom showing dock.

Notes on back of Scenes030

Steilacoom and Mount Rainier taken from McNeil Island

Aerial view of Steilacoom showing from just east of Cedar to Pacific. American Lake in background.

Aerial view of paper mill at Chambers Creek showing road and railrood.

Aerial view of Saltar's Point area showing Martin, Champion, and Gove Streets

Starling Street to waterfront view showing Oberlin Church area. A post card.

Close in view of Orr property part of Scenes025 above

1945

Even closer view of Orr property part of Scenes025 above showing Wagon Shop, auto garage (white building), and the tall building beside the Wagon Shop on neighbor's property (the purpose of that building is not known)

View of Puget Sound, McNeil Island in background.

Steilacoom water front showing Balch home in foreground. In background, left to right, O'Donnell home, Masonic Temple (according to caption), Bair Drugs, monument, E.R. Rogers home, Doering home.

Back of post card (Scenes036)

Advertisement of Iron Springs Sanitarium (later Iron Springs Hotel). Photos credited to Ed Bair

Group on beach for picnic.

Vaughn's Stable (left) with U.S. Post Office next door, on Commercial Street which is running northeasterly at that point.

Bell monument. Older photos show two buildings in background.

Water front at west end. Shows tracks going up the hill into town paralleling Lafayette Street.

Bell monument.

Bell monument recognizing Methodist - Episcopal Church (1853 - 1894). Monument erected in 1908.

Pile driver working to build ferry dock.

Union Avenue looking north. Annis house.

Union Avenue looking south. Bradley house in background.

Starling Street, Iron Springs Hotel in background; Knox and Erland homes.

Starling Street with old parsonage in background

Dr. Taylor's greenhouse, O'Donnel building on Lafayette Street

Dr. Taylor's gate and fence

Dr. Bradley cottage at Union Avenue and Commercial Street

Postcard of Scenes054 (mouth of Chambers Creek)

Mouth of Chambers Creek

Tacoma-Steilacoom "Stage" (made regular runs between the two cities)

~1912

1920

1890

1920s

Northbound train crossing 5th Street waterway dock.

Soundview Inn (run by Mamie and Charlie Green) and Green's Boat House at Saltar's Beach.

1910

1914

Silver Beach (the water front from the mouth of Chambers Creek to the edge of downtown Steilacoom)

Foot of Union Avenue before dock was built.

Steilacoom's 4th Music Festival. Held in School yard.

Area above Silver Beach looking west into Steilacoom. Loomis House is in foreground.

Sep 1938

1905

Area above Silver Beach looking west into Steilacoom. Loomis House is in foreground. (Closer view of Scenes060)

1976

Chambers Street

Farrell's Marsh

1976

Sunnyside Beach showing garbage can and picnic table

Sunnyside Beach

1976

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Commercial Street looking northeasterly from Wilkes Street

Boise Cascade paper mill

People waiting for train at train station

1870s

1976

1920s

Same photo as Scenes102

Forest view of Chambers Bay

Shirley Barkley Roe standing beside Geoerge Kuper's service truck used by Kuper's Associated Service

Unk

Jun 2, 1938

1940?

1923

Dec 1942

Bair Drugs at right seen from across Lafayette Street, shed in back with aluminum roof

Businesses on Lafayette Street. Pictured are Hattie Bair, Jack Leech, W. L. Bair, Bill Leech

Smith's Store on Lafayette Street

Silver Beach looking toward downtown Steilacoom. "Baywood" Gage Wheeler home in foreground

Swimmer's float and building at Saltar's Point beach

Well dressed people (2 men, 1 woman) relaxing at Saltar's Point beach.

1940?

1920s

1910

Barnyard scene "Catching the Bird"

Duke (Dude?) Rundquist on bicycle on area bridge

Young lady on bicycle

Unk

~1900

Sunnyside and Silver Beaches showing pilings from gravel works

~1915

Lafayette Street showing Bair Drugs, Grocery Store, Maison Leroux board

Palmer's addition showing corner of Shepard and Harrison Streets in winter

Palmer's addition, looking toward Harrison

1910

1916

Scene from Nisqually Street looking west a Puget Sound and Olympic Mountains

Deep Sea Aquarium at Saltar's Point

Bair Drugs and adjacent stores

~1920

1030

1920

Reconstruction of McNeil Island prison

Quartermaster's home at Fort Steilacoom

~1900

~1910

Reconstruction of McNeil Island prison

~1900

Fort Steilacoom, parade ground and buildings built by Kautz

First buildings and parade ground at Fort Steilacoom

1860

1850?

Chapman's "Port of Steilacoom" looking west down Martin Street toward Saltar's Point

Gravel pit operations at Silver Beach showing trucks and workers. Pit operated by Thompson's Steilacoom Sand and Gravel Co

1895

1930s

1920s

Gravel pit operations at Silver Beach showing loading dock

1964

1956

1900

Bird Cemetery (est. 1853) Monument erected in 1956

Logging operations showing donkey engine on track in forest near Steilacoom

Commercial Street businesses

Bird Cemetery showing fenced in grave site of infant James Low (d. 1881)

Bird Cemetery showing trees and gravestones

1905

1964

Independence Day monument commerorating the first "4th of July" celebration in 1941. Monument placed on July 4, 1908 at Camp Lewis (now Fort Lewis)

Native American boat houses on rafts just off shorelines

1906

1895

Steilacoom pastoral scene on Starling Street

Upper Steilacoom with Puget Sound and Anderson Island in background

Funeral procession of Henry P. Rupp, on Commercial Street

Unk

1895

1883

View from Martin Street up to school

1900

Lafayette Street and Oberlin Church

Winter scene of Steilacoom ferry and dock

1944

1920

Aerial view of Steilacoom

Steilacoom street scene

Apr 30, 1941

~1940

Steilacoom street scene

~1940

Steilacoom gravel pit area

Aerial view of Steilacoom

Looking westerly from Lafayette Street. Left to right: Waverly Hotel (formerly E. R. Rogers home), Granny Bligh's home, bell tower, Bair store.

~1912

Unk

Aug 25, 1951

View of Palmer Addition area from air raid watch tower

Excavation for tennis courts using team of horses

Oct 20, 1942

~1930

Aerial view of Steilacoom

View of Palmer Addition area from air raid watch tower

Oct 20, 1942

Aug 25, 1951

Same photo as Scenes109, except perhaps better quality. Courtesy of Tacoma News Tribune...SHMA cannot provide copy without written permission.