1923 Tacoma Washington - The Lumber Capital of America + Sitka Spruce wood menu

Description: 1923 Tacoma Washington - The Lumber Capital of America + Sitka Spruce wood menu. Photos 1, 2 and 3 show the front cover, back cover and binding. Photos 4 and 5 show the Title Pages, with Mount Tacoma in the background. In the book they refer to the Mountain as Mount Tacoma, but originally it was named Mount Rainer in 1792 by the British explorer, George Vancouver, the first known European to explore what is now called Puget Sound. It was named for his friend, Peter Rainer, a Captain in the British Royal Navy, and later to become an Admiral. The name was changed to Mount Tacoma in 1883 when the Northern Pacific Railroad, picked Tacoma as its terminus and announced that it would call Mount Rainer, Mount Tacoma. So it's a little bit murky, but it seems that the name reverted back to Mount Rainer in the 1920;s or 1930's. This book from 1923 in photo # 6 refers to the name as Mount Tacoma. Photos 7 and 8 show the real Sitka Spruce wood that is in the back of the book. Photos 9 and 10 show the top and bottom of the map and listing of all the Members of the Tacoma Lumbermen's Association. Photo # 11 shows The map also refers to the mountain as Mount Tacoma in the lower right hand corner. Photo # 12 shows the revised directory of Tacoma's Lumber Industry. Photo # 13 shows the entrance to Point Defiance Park. Point Defiance Park began as a military reservation after the John Wilkes Expedition visited Puget Sound in the 1840's to map the bays and estuaries. Point Defiance Park covers 760 acres. Photo # 14 shows a Puget Sound Harbor Scene with Todd Drydock and Construction Company, Crane Installation by Colby Steel and Engineering Company and unusual electric logging equipment installation by E. J. Barry Electrical Engineer, Tacoma. Photo # 15 shows a modern logging camp, starting at the top a company store and how the food was prepared and served. If you would like to read a really funny story about a young bride from Chicago going to a logging camp in Shelton, Washington, in the early 1920's, please go to my E Bay Listing: 2001 Lane County Historian, Autumn, Wildish Family and young bride, logging camp. The young bride said she and her new husband were broke and needed a job so they went to work at a logging camp. The husband was a book keeper. The bride thought she would have a nice house with flower boxes out in the front yard, well it wasn't quite that, it was missing things like running water, toilet, the toilet was basically a hole in the ground, it did have a stove. Great story you will smile if you look at it. The last picture shows a logging camp at night. Photo # 16 shows a typical sawmill of the day, unloading Douglas Fir Logs from the flatbed railcars. Photo # 17 shows some of the leading financial institutions of the day: The Puget Sound National Bank, The Bank of California, The National Bank of Tacoma. These institutions played an important role in financing Tacoma's Lumber Industry. Photo # 18 shows some of the transportation facilities along the Tacoma waterfront and ocean docks. Photo # 19 shows a typical berry field with Mount Rainier in the background and the Green River Gorge, a short drive to the east. The Green River supplies much of present day Tacoma's drinking water. Shelf # 70.

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