Robert A. Reid, "Official" Black and White printed post cards, of the
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, post-fair era.
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Robert A. Reid, a noted publisher was actively involved in documenting the
History of the Pacific Northwest
Card Size 3-5/16" x 5-3/8"
He published a 95 card set of the AYPE along with several AYPE “View” books. See separate pages, this Site.
If you have a cards we don't showe, please contact the webmaster@aype.net
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1 Pioneer Place, (looking East, sm. totem)
1-1 Pioneer Place, (looking SE, lg. totem)
2 Seattle Statuary
3 Regrade Changes (MVP) 1906-1908
4 Prominent Seattle Clubs
5 Summit of Mt. Rainier
6 Olympics from Seattle
7 Princess Angeline
8 Great Northern Docks
9 The White and Henry Building
10 Alaska Building
11 Snoqualmie Falls
12 Upper Second Avenue
13 Saint James Cathedral
14 Leary and American Bank Building.
14-1 Leary and American Bank Building. Top title
15 Seattle Public Library
16 New Post Office
17 Union Station
18 Hotel Washington
19 The University of Washington Buildings (MVP) showing Auditorium, Forestry, Administration, Chemistry & Science Buildings.
20 Mt. Rainier from Seattle
21 Greetings from Seattle
22 Madison Street
23 First Avenue
24 A Section of the Seattle Water Front
24-1 Seattle Water Front
25 Umbrella Rest, Kinnear Park.
26 Boat Landing, LESCHI, Park
27 New Zoo, Woodland Park
28 Pike Street
28-1 Prominent Seattle Clubs
29 Puget Sound Navy Yard
30 New Fire Boat Duwamish
31 Second Ave from Yesler Way (Top Title)
31-1 Second Ave from Yesler Way (Bottom Title)
32 The Minnesota
33 The First Steel Plant - Irondale
34 Steamer form China discharging Ore. – Irondale.
35 The Western Steel Corporation's railroad trains operating at Irondale, haul ores and other freight all about the piers, rolling mills and store houses.
36 Open Hearth Furnaces - Irondale
37 Pouring Steel - Irondale
38 Heating Steel Ingots - Irondale.
39 Rolling Steel Ingots into Billits – Irondale
40 Scenes at Irondale
41 The Totem Pole (Pioneer Square)
42 Largest Log House in the World (Forestry Building)
42 King County Building
43 New Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Co. Station, Seattle.
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45 New Colman Dock, Seattle
45 The New Grand Trunk Pacific Dock
46 New Business Center
47 Sea Gulls Upon The Tide Flats
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49 The Golden Potlatch – ’97 Chief Seattle UL
49-1 The Golden Potlatch – ’97 Seattle Water Front UL
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51S The Golden Potlatch ‘97
51 The Daisy Official Golden Potlatch Flower. Seattle’s Great Carnival the Golden Potlatch Week of July, 17-1911
52 Come to the Golden Potlatch Seattle’s Great Carnival Week of July 17-1909
53 S Official Potlatch Pennant
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55 The New Alki Beach Bath-House and Recreation Park, Seattle
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| 1. Pioneer Place is the Oldest business center in Seattle. The totem pole standing on the grass plot was brought from Alaska where it stood for over a century. |
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| 1. Pioneer Place is the Oldest business center in Seattle. The totem pole standing on the grass plot was brought from Alaska where it stood for over a century. |
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| 2. Seattle Statuary: Washington, whose immortal name the State bears; William H. Seward, by whose foresight Alaska was secured, and James J, Hill who linked the East And West with bands of iron. |
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| 3. The pictures 1906 and 1908 shows a section where marvelous changes have taken place. The Regrade scheme is a matter of twelve millions of dollars embracing “the moving of mountains.” |
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| 4. The Country Club is the fashionable society club; The Rainier Club, the business men’s club; The Arctic, the club of the “northmen;” The University, the professional men’s; Athletic, devoted to physical culture. |
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| 5. Rainier is the highest mountain in the United States14,526 feet. This view of its summit shows something of the great forests surrounding the mountains. |
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| 6. This View is from Kinnear Park. The Olympics form one of the grandest sights, with favorable atmospheric conditions anywhere to be found. |
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| 8. At these Docks the greatest steamships which run between Seattle and Japan, China and other Trans-Pacific countries load and unload their immense cargoes. |
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| 9. The White and Henry Buildings are sections already completed, of a series at Union and University streets, and Fourth Avenue, to surround a square, all of highest class of modern construction. |
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| 10. The Alaska is a stately sky-scraper standing upon Second avenue at Cherry street. It was the first of the class erected, and is unsurpassed in its simple beauty, by any later structure. |
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| 11. The Snoqualmie Falls are twenty-eight miles east of Seattle. They are 286 feet high and beautifully set about with evergreen trees. They are harnessed to make power for illuminating and trolley systems. |
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| 12. Many of the fashionable shops and department stores are upon upper Second Avenue, the newer business center. |
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| 13. St. James Cathedral, Roman Catholic, is the finest temple for religious worship in the State of Washington. The pride of Seattle citizens, it is also admired by all visitors to the City. |
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| 14. Upon The Left corner is the beautiful new Leary Office Building for office use. Upon the further corner is the American and Empire Building, also devoted to banks and office. |
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| 15. The Public Library. Fourth Ave. and Madison. originally cost $320,000. Mr. Carnegie giving $220,000, the City adding $100,000. Costly new foundations have just been built to bring to regrade. There are five branches. |
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| 16. Upon the first floor are postal facilities: upon the second the U.S. courts, and Custom House Service occupies the third floor of this handsome recent structure. |
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| 17. The Union Station accommodates more than sixty trains daily, running over the rails of eight great railway systems. the tower is 240 feet high. |
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| 18. The Washington is Seattle’s largest fashionable hotel, the finest in the Northwest. It is however, but one of many of the elegant hostelries in the City. |
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| 19. University of Washington, Auditorium, Forestry, Administration, Chemistry and Science Buildings. |
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| 20. Mt. Rainier seen from Seattle is an object of universal admiration. It is 14,526 feet high. The afternoon sunlight transforms its vast ice fields into mountains of gold and silver. |
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| 21. In Sending Greeting citizens of Seattle invite you to the “Queen City” surrounded by scenic grandeurs; The Gateway to Alaska and the Orient. |
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| 22. Madison Street looking east from Western Ave. up “First Hill” showing terraced avenues intersecting, and the little cable cars which run from Lake to Sound. |
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| 23. First Avenue was in early days the only street of the City, and it is still one of the principle avenues of trade. It parallels the harbor front. |
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| 24. With skyscrapers and other imposing structures lining the streets upon the terraced hills forming the background, the approach to the City by water is most pleasing and attractive. |
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| 25. The Umbrella Rest is one of the picturesque features in Kinnear Park, an irregular tract of bluffs skirting Queen Anne Hill, on the west, which is finely kept, and affords wondrous views and outlooks. |
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| 26. Leschi Park is a small picturesque part bordering Lake Washington at Yesler Way, and is a favorite starting point for excursionists over the beautiful lake. |
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| 27. The new zoo buildings at Woodland Park, in the northern part of the City, afford the animals the greatest degree of comfort attainable in a life of containment. |
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| 28. Pike Street crosses the upper parts of the Avenue and is the principle crosstown business thoroughfare of that section of the City. |
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| 29. The Navy Yard, a wonderfully interesting place to visit, is a pleasant trip of an hour or two upon Puget Sound. Appropriations already made insure its growing value as a great naval station. |
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| 30. Besides fighting fire among the shipping the new fire boat Duwamish is specially efficient in water-front conflagrations as shown in preventing the spread of a recent fire to the central docks. She has capacity for throwing twenty-four streams. |
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| 31. Second Avenue, north of Yesler Way, for twelve blocks is the principle fashionable business section of Seattle. |
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| 32. The Minnesota is the largest freight and passenger steamer sailing from Pacific ports. She is engaged in commerce between Seattle and the Orient. |
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| 34. Steamship Riverdale, one of a fleet sailing monthly between Hankow, China and Irondale discharging ore and pigiron at the pier. The Chinese contract with the Steel Company covers a period of many years and over 200,000 tons of ore and pig iron annually. |
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| 36. The Open Hearth Furnaces are charged with ores, scrap, ect. And are producing one hundred tons of steel daily. |
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| 37. This View shows the method of pouring open-hearth steel into moulds making ingots for convenience in handling. Among the finished products of the works are bar steel, rails, structural shapes, billets and re-enforcing bars. |
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| Smelter, Irondale, Wash., Published by Joe Steiner, Port Townsend, Wash.. Shown for reference only. |
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| An anonymous RPPC showing the Ore loading station behind the two storiy, worker housing units. |
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| 38. In These furnaces the ingots of steel are given a white heat to go into the rollers for the production of merchantable steel shapes. |
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| 39. After being heated the steel ingots are passed over the electric tables shown and rolled into the various shapes required. |
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| 40. Chimicum Creek divides the north and south. Pure air, beautiful scenery and an equable climate make Irondale an ideal workingman’s home city. Washington Hotel, the first brick building. New scenes ands industries bring many excursionists to Irondale. |
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| 41. The Totem Pole was carved from a cedar tree by natives upon Tongass Island, Alaska, where it stood for more than a century. It was presented to the City in 1899. It is an interesting feature in Pioneer Place. |
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| 42. The largest Log House in the World, now one of the University group, was the Forestry Building of the A.Y.P. Exposition. It is 144 x 320 ft. and the roof is supported by 124 immense unhewn logs forty feet high. |
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| 43. This New Depot is 145 x 185 feet and cost, with its switching yards, $1,000,000 for construction. It is the most northern ”out post” of the Harriman system of 13,000 miles of railroads, the greatest in the world. |
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| 45. The New Grand Trunk Pacific Dock is not surpassed upon the American Continent for size, style and conveniences for handling freight and passengers. |
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| 45. This new model dock marked a new era in convenient facilities for passengers going and coming from Sound ports and summer homes upon it’s shores. |
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| 46. This view shows the new business center near the Post Office, looking towards First Hill with St. James Cathedral in the distance. |
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| 47. Daily during the winter, thousands of sea gulls gather upon the tide flats, acting as water-front scavengers, enliveing what is otherwise a cheerless scene. |
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| 49. “With the scenery of Puget Sound at her feet, the lakes within her borders, the mountains seen upon all sides, the forests which clothe the mountains – few other cities, the world round, are so beautifully environed as Seattle.” |
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| 49. “With the scenery of Puget Sound at her feet, the lakes within her borders, the mountains seen upon all sides, the forests which clothe the mountains – few other cities, the world round, are so beautifully environed as Seattle.” |
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| 51. The Golden Potlatch will fill the busiest, merriest week that the Pacific Northwest has ever seen. Sports of the air, on water and on land, with brilliant parades historic pageants., unique masquerades and splendid music will occupy every moment of the days and nights. |
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| 52. “This is to invite you to be in Seattle the week of July 17-22, 1911, to participate in the Festival of the Gift of Gold, when Seattle will celebrate the Golden Potlatch made to the world by Alaska through this City.” |
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| 53. The scenic surroundings, park and boulevard system, broad thoroughfares, handsome business blocks, extent of commerce, vast number of hotels and it’s fine residence sections cause Seattle’s pennant to wave high o’er the banners of her attractive sister cities, proclaiming the Queen City the Metropolis of the Northwest. |
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| 55 . The New Alki Beach Bathing and Recreation Pavillion immediately became immensely popular. While the bathing season covers only June, July, August and September, the fine marine view and Beach promenade make a visit at any season well worth while. |
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