TACOMA 1889

TACOMA 1889, 52 pages, 8½ x 11. This is a reprint of The Northwest Magazine for March 1889. This magazine was produced in St. Paul, Minnesota by E.V. Smalley and was primarily a promotion magazine, encouraging people to use the railroad to move to new lands in the West. This issue featured Tacoma and devoted 21 pages to articles of and about Tacoma with numerous line drawing cuts of Tacoma places. The advertisers were largely real estate agents and speculators There are 7 or 8 pages of Tacoma real estate ads and other advertising includes items as diverse as Krupp’s Steel Tires and Baldwin Locomotives to Bower’s compendium of Shorthand in 12 lessons, and Dupont’s Gunpowder. Illustrations include the new Merchant’s National Bank Building, the Northern Pacific Railroad Building, The steamboat wharf, a ship receiving cargo of coal at the Tacoma coal bunkers, , the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber mill, the Tacoma Mill Co.; a view on Pacific Ave., the Sprague block; views of Tacoma Avenue and C Street; The Methodist University, Washington College, Anna Wright Seminary, and Central School; a number of views of the interiors of various banks and hotels; there are pictures of the homes of Gen. J.W. Sprague, Theo. Hosmer, C.W. Griggs, T.B. Wallace, Geo. Atkinson, and K.C. Clement; there are also views of the “Tacoma” hotel and Gross Brothers dry goods store.