Snoqualmie Falls in Harness: Souvenir of the Visit of the Commercial Club of Chicago March 21, 1901

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Snoqualmie Falls in Harness: Souvenir of the Visit of the Commercial Club of Chicago March 21, 1901

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Photograph album documenting the1901 visit of the Commercial Club of Chicago to the Snoqualmie Falls Power Company and additional Washington locales.

1 album; 36 photographic prints

eng,

University of Washington Libraries Special Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 6373306

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Commercial club of Chicago

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Iowa (Battleship)

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Baker, Charles H. (Charles Hinckley), 1864-

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Born in 1864, civil engineer Charles H. Baker began working for Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern Railroad in 1887. After viewing 276-foot Snoqualmie Falls, Baker persuaded his father to finance his idea for a Snoqualmie Falls Power Company. His father, William T. Baker, was president of the Chicago Board of Trade and organizer of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. Work began in 1898 and the plant was opened in July, 1899. In 1908, the Snoqualmie Falls Power Company was sold to the Seattle-T...

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard

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