Fascinating Historical Photos of Bellingham from the 1900s

#1 Inspiration point, Chuckanut drive, 1920

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#2 Old main at state college, 1900s

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#3 Larrabee grammar school built 1890

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#4 Early Whatcom County logging photo showing the tools of the trade

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#5 The Leopold hotel, 1910

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#6 Interior Bellingham national bank.

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#7 Sehome schoolhouse.

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#8 remains of fort Bellingham 1894

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#9 Edens Hall, Western Washington College of Education,1937

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#10 U.S. federal building, downtown Bellingham.

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#11 Early logging – old growth Douglas fir

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#12 Bellingham coal mine, 1954, the year it closed

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#13 Clark Gable, Jack Oakie, during filming of “call of the wild” near mount baker, 1935

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#14 Old main, state normal school, 1910

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#15 Bellingham Canning, 1900

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#16 Company M, 2nd Infantry, Bellingham, 1910

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#17 Yachting on Bellingham Bay, 1907

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#18 Roth apartments, w. Holly.

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#19 After a snowstorm, in downtown Bellingham: holly street, block west of Cornwall (dock St.), 1940.

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#20 Bellingham Blossomtime parade, 1961

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#21 View across Whatcom creek waterway, 1920s

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#22 First Edward Eldridge home, built 1876, burned 1878

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#23 Cascade laundry, 1940

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#24 An “Indian pow-wow” in Cornwall Park – not an actual gathering of native Americas, but, rather, middle class white kids, 1920

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#25 William Thompson cabin, mount baker, 1894

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#26 Hotel baker, 1910.

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#27 Bellingham theater guild presents “sweet charity,” 1948

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#28 View of downtown Bellingham, 1940s

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#29 Bellingham tulip fields 1898-1929

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#30 Washington Avenue, Blaine.

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#31 Blossomtime parade, 1954

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#32 Miners posing at entrance of blue canyon mine, 1891

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#33 Looking southwest from chestnut street, Sehome, 1889

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#34 Chuckanut gardens, 1960

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#35 Clyde banks, preparing to take the first aerial photos of mt. Baker, 1920

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#36 Cornwall, Leopold hotel and “sanitarium” baths, 1920

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#37 Fountain baker.

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#38 Military bridge built across Whatcom creek by George Pickett

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#39 Mount baker lodge

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#40 Boy fishing on Nooksack, 1920

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#41 Whatcom falls, 1910

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#42 Bellingham waterfront 1915

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#43 Mount baker summit party 1906

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#44 Bellingham coal miners at work, 1935

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#45 railroad avenue, ca. 1960

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#46 Bellingham pulp mill, 1950

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#47 Richards building, erected 1858 – oldest brick building north of San Francisco

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#48 City of Bellingham, 1900

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#49 Engineers Side, Alco 2-6-2 Locomotive no. 1, 1909

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#50 Firemans Side, 3 Truck Shay Locomotive #7 & 3 Truck Climax Locomotive #1 With a String of Loaded Log Flats

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#51 Bridge near Nugents Corner, 1947

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#52 3 Truck Shay Locomotive #5 & Willamette Tree Rig Skidder

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#53 Old growth cedar stump, 1912

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#54 Elk Street, 1890

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#55 Blossomtime parade, 1961

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#56 Sehome grade school, built 1890 on present site of laurel park.

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#57 Early loggers, Whatcom County.

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#58 Ymca band, 1912

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#59 City of Arlington float in 1959 Blossomtime parade

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#60 Cornwall Park

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#61 Bellingham coal mine, 1950

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#62 Chuckanut drive.

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#63 Dot Island in Chuckanut bay.

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#64 Fountain drug, 1950

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#65 Washington poet Laureate Ella Higginson’s house

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#66 Henry Roeder mansion, aka “elmheim,” aka”roeder-roth home”

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#67 Elk (state) street

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#68 Holly McCracken’s

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#69 Holly Street, 1900

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#70 Horseshoe Cafe, 1958

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#71 House built by Jack Holeman, current site of burger kind, telegraph rd., Bellingham.

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#72 Larrabee school building.

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#73 Yachting

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#74 Mt. Baker summit party, 1891

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#75 Sumas front.

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#76 Montague McHugh building before the coming of the bon.

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#77 Sehome grade school built 1890 on present site of laurel park, Bellingham

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#78 Bellingham Airport, 1950

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#79 Crane on Dock, 1967

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#80 Higgins house, Bellingham, 1950

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#81 Longstaff house, Bellingham, 1968

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#82 Mack Truck on Rails at The Landing Getting The Peak Log Loaded, 1926

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#83 Shamrock II Information Center, 1955

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#84 2-6-4T Locomotive #2

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#85 2-6-6-2 Locomotive #14 With 43 Loaded Connected Log Cars

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#86 3 Truck Climax Locomotive no. 11 CN 1632

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#87 Holly Street, looking west, 1940

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#88 Original signage at entrance of Cornwall Park

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#89 Sightseeing along Chuckanut, 1930s

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#90 Early image of Elizabeth Park

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#91 Elks parade on commercial street

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#92 A room in the historic Fairhaven hotel

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#93 Historic flooding in Ferndale, 1905

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#94 Soaping the fountain in the fountain district has been a common prank across the years.

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#95 1970s view showing storefronts across from fountain in fountain district

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#96 Downtown Bellingham, 1910

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#97 Bellingham International Airport Maintenance, 1983

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#98 Bellingham YMCA delegation in House chamber, 1949

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#99 Boats in Squalicum Harbor, Bellingham Yacht Club building, 1900

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#100 Empty Mack Truck on Rails at The Bottom of The Incline Waiting To be Rigged & Yarded up The Incline, 1926

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#101 Flight School, 1940

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#102 Gymnasium, Western Washington College of Education, 1937

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#103 House on 15th Street, Bellingham, 1968

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#104 Military bridge across Whatcom creek, build by George Pickett

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#105 Bellingham at night, 1910

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#106 Houses on High Street, Bellingham, 1959

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#107 Port of Bellingham, 1970

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#108 Port of Bellingham offices.1950

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#109 Port of Bellingham offices, 1951

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#110 Snohomish County Library bookmobile, 1947

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#111 Steamboats New World and Fairhaven, 1900s

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#112 Store in Fairhaven, Bellingham, 1970

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#113 Sugar beet refinery in Bellingham, 1925

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#114 Great Northern” railcar, 1900

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#115 Dirt highway south of Bellingham, 1916

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#116 Washington State vistors’ center, 1955

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#117 15th and Knox, Bellingham, 1968

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#118 2 Truck Shay Locomotive #4 CN 820 Leaving Landing With 3 Loaded Disconnect Log Cars

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#119 Aerial view of Bellingham and Businesses, 1981

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#120 Historic flooding in Ferndale, ca. 1905

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#121 Bellingham Kiwanis visit to Bellingham coal mine, 1935

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#122 Bellingham International Airport Fire Station from the front, September 1981

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#123 Port of Bellingham Offices.1900

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#124 Sailboat and Bellingham Yacht club, 1900

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#125 Warehouse #4, 1900

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#126 G.S. Williams, William Entwistle, and L.T. Webster at Entwistle Lookout, 1954

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