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| Advertisement | Real Estate Investment in Tacoma (1889) |
| Company/Advertising Agency | Tacoma Land Company |
| Publication Source | Tacoma city directory, p. 53 |
| Publisher | R.L. Polk & Company |
| Publisher Location | United States--Washington (State)--Tacoma |
| Publication Date | 1889
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| Advertisement Text | Tacoma, the western terminus of the Northern Pacific R.R. If you want a home or an investment in the Northwest, go to Tacoma because...Tacoma will be the shipping port for all the wheat raised in Eastern Washington...Tacoma ships more lumber and coal than any other port on Puget Sound...Tacoma has never been "boomed" but has steadily grown since 1880...Tacoma's climate is excellent...Isaac W. Anderson, General Manager, Tacoma Land Co. |
| Contextual Notes | Isaac W. Anderson was a prominent Tacoma businessman and banker with ties to the Tacoma Land Company, the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, the Nicholls Investment Company, and the Tacoma National Bank.
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| Category | Real estate and land development
Railroad travel
Saving and investment |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Real estate development--Washington (State)--Tacoma |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Investments |
| Geographic Coverage | United States--Washington (State)--Tacoma
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| Digital Collection | Early Advertising |
| Digital ID Number | ADV0315 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Pacific Northwest Collection. 979.745 D62 1889 |
| Object Type | Advertisement |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from text at 200-400 dpi, saved in TIFF format, enhanced and resized using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm software's JPEG2000 Extension. 2008 |
