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Railroad Service From Bordeaux To Seattle Connected With Chicago, Milwaukee, St Paul and Pacific Line

December 28, 2011 by Carol Yates Wilkerson

Washington State Railroads and Lumber Mills Today, I received an interesting vintage postcard from a new friend who had found it on Ebay. Postmarked 10 May 1915, it was a confirmation from the Mumby Lumber and Shingle Company of Bordeaux, Washington sent to George F. Nilder (or Hilder), a representative of the Chicago, Milwaukee and [...]

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The Home Friend 1909: Sears House Plans

July 1, 2010 by Carol Yates Wilkerson

The Home Friend 1909: Sears, Roebuck and Company House Plans The Sears Catalog is long gone now, and at the end they were certainly not selling houses, but as you can see from this 1909 ad in the Home Friend they had a running concern for them at that time. How many of you live [...]

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Old Bordeaux Washington – Mumby, McIver, Costigan

May 5, 2010 by Carol Yates Wilkerson

1916 Bordeaux, WA - Mumby, McIver, Costigan

I love the Washington State Digital Archives! I was looking for something else in the archives tonight and, as always, I did a search for the name Bordeaux. This time, I was searching in photos and found this one. The caption reads: *”Photograph of three men holding guns and dressed in their Sunday attire, 1916. [...]