Archives West Finding Aid

This is a single 5 1/4" x 7" x 1" photograph and postcard album titled “Post Cards” on the front, containing 37 black and white photographic or postcard prints and two mailed commercial postcards. Photographs are of a northwestern Washington state vacation; the majority appear to be from a horseback camping and fishing trip up the Cascade River across the North Cascades to the upper end of Lake Chelan and then back, followed by a boat ride out of Mount Vernon.

The first 32 images in the book are numbered. Pictures include rugged mountain scenes (1-7, 10-11, 23-24), people with horses and packs (2, 19-22), fishing and rivers (8-9, 12-13, 16, 33, 38), a dugout canoe on the river (8), Cascade River (9, 18), a four horse stagecoach carrying four men (14), the Field Hotel at Lake Chelan (15), a waterfall, possibly Rainbow Falls (17), a wooden bridge (25), a commercial greenhouse or mill labeled “Royal” (26), a parade (27), a railroad bridge or jetty (28), a coastal scene with driftwood (29), the New Steel Bridge at Mount Vernon (30), steamboat Gleaner (31), Deception Pass (32), Ben Ure Island (34, 36), the motorboat Jack Rabbit (34), a campsite next to the water (35), nine people sitting at a picnic table meal (37); a greetings postcard (38); and a color postcard of the Bacon Library at the University of California (39). Of the cards, only the final two were actually mailed, but 34 and 36 do also include text on the back.