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TACOMA ILLUSTRATED. PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE TACOMA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE / TITLE PAGE TACOMA ILLUSTRATED. PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE TACOMA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. A CAREFUL COMPILATION OF THE RESOURCES TERMINAL ADVANTAGES INSTITUTIONS CLIMATE BUSINESS AND MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES OF THE "CITY OF DESTINY"

1889rif. 47211Chicago: Baldwin Calcutt & Co. 1889. 1889. First edition. 11-3/4" x 9-1/4" pictorial blue-green linen wrappers with faded title stamped in gilt on front cover along with a faded picture of Mount Tacoma. 97 1pp. plus frontispiece. 7 plates. Tissue guards. Illustrations. Maps. Advertisements. Double column text. Much information and illustrations to include climate logging minerals its rapid growth the great Northern Pacific Railroad the Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Tacoma's wealth the vast and magnificent forests its fisheries hops and hop-picking along with descriptions of various prominent people. Includes sections on the Tacoma Cedar Lumber Co. and The St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. Gig Harbor Lumber Co. and Link's Planing Mills; real estate land development and real estate agents including the Lombard Investment Co. Pinkham & Walker E.N. Ouimette with many illustrations of Tacoma residences and homes; the growing steel industry with companies like the Standard Iron Works shipping banking and much more. Finely illustrated throughout by various prominent artists. Images include horses hauling logs a view of Pacific Avenue public buildings various businesses schools churches residences hotels views at and near east Tacoma views of American Lake railroad scenes etc. Portraits include "The Executive Committee of the Chamber of Congress" "Representative Men of Tacoma" "Some Prominent Bankers of Tacoma" etc. Full-page map entitled "Northern Pacific Railroad And Connections." Light foxing and soiling to some pages. Wrappers lightly soiled and scraped with 1" x 1/4" chip to head of front cover as well as one small chip to top portion of spine and with light wear to extremities. Very good. Excellent land promotion view of Tacoma Washington published the year that Washington became a state. Baldwin, Calcutt & Co., 1889. unknown

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