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Identifier: wwu:27736
Title: Ten men in workwear, several holding logging peaveys, stand on wooden platform in front of boom or other tall structure
Date: 1890-1900
Description: Right front corner: "J.H. Reifsmyder - Piledriving Contractor - New Whatcom, Washington."
Digital Collection: Biery (Galen) Papers and Photographs
Type of resource: still image
Object custodian: Center for Pacific Northwest Studies
Related Collection: Galen Biery papers and photographs
Local Identifier: gb2417

Identifier: wwu:27939
Title: Huge crowd of people, mostly men in suits, overcoats, and derby hats, stand on the Sehome wharf next to large steamer ferry packed with people, all whom gather to send off George Francis Train
Date: 1890-1900
Description: Back caption "Chapter XXV - George Francis Train in the center foreground, at the Sehome wharf - about to board the steamer Premier, which was to carry him and these excursionists to Victoria, where he would board the steamer "Empress of India" for Yokohama. May 9, 1891. He was going to circumnavigate the globe in 60 days, and advertise New Whatcom." George Train was a writer and lecturer from New York who induced the residents of New Whatcom to raise $1000 for his trip around the world which took him sixty-one and one half days. He had done the same thing in Tacoma in 1890 in sixty-seven days.
Digital Collection: Biery (Galen) Papers and Photographs
Type of resource: still image
Object custodian: Center for Pacific Northwest Studies
Related Collection: Galen Biery papers and photographs
Local Identifier: gb2689

Identifier: wwu:27691
Title: Large crowd of men, women, children gather in street outside hotel to listen to speech from William Jennings Bryant who is standing on platform extended from hotel balcony
Date: 1890-1900
Description: Back caption: " "Taken Day Wm. J. Bryan made speech - Old Grand Central Hotel cor. Forest & Holly Sts. Loaned from collection of Chas. W. Stoddard early pioneer of Whatcom and property of his daughter Mrs. Elsie M. Hanbloom, #6 Seventh Place, Long Beach 2 Calif."
Digital Collection: Biery (Galen) Papers and Photographs
Type of resource: still image
Object custodian: Center for Pacific Northwest Studies
Related Collection: Galen Biery papers and photographs
Local Identifier: gb2408

Identifier: wwu:28418
Title: Champion and West Holly Streets, Bellingham
Date: 1890-1900
Description: Caption on reverse in ink: "at Champion & West Holly Streets, the dividing line between New Whatcom and Whatcom to the right of this building. This was in the days before the fills; where the shore line came to Holly Street. The Great Northern Railroad track across Bellingham Bay to the right." On the front in ink: "Dobbs Photo" The three story builing in the foreground has a sign on its top floor that says "Golden Rule Bazaar - Importer of Crockery, Glass...Willow Woodenware, 5-10 cent Counters, Tent Depot" Looking across the Bay toward South Hill with Sehome Hill on the left. Four storefronts back to the Bay diagonally across from the Golden Rule Bazaar.
Digital Collection: Biery (Galen) Papers and Photographs
Type of resource: still image
Object custodian: Center for Pacific Northwest Studies
Related Collection: Galen Biery papers and photographs
Local Identifier: gb3284

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