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| Advertisement | Tacoma's Industrial Growth (1906) |
| Company/Advertising Agency | Tacoma Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade |
| Publication Source | Washington magazine, Vol. 1 (6) |
| Publisher | Washington Magazine Publishing Company |
| Publisher Location | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Publication Date | August 1906
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| Advertisement Text | It has been called the "Naples of America" owing to a fancied similiarity between the city on the beautiful Bay of Naples, with Mount Vesuvius in the background, and the attractive Puget Sound, behind which Mount Tacoma rears its lofty, snow-crowned head...although Tacoma is the youngest of the larger cities on the Pacific Coast, it is already a great industrial center. Tacoma manufactures more lumber than any other city in the world; mills more flour than any city west of Minneapolis and Kansas City, and reduces more ores than any other city on the Pacific Coast. |
| Contextual Notes | Following the Northern Pacific Railroad's decision to make Commencement Bay its western terminus in 1873, the city of Tacoma's population grew, along with several industries. In 1918, the Port of Tacoma was created.
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| Category | Tourism and travel
Saving and investment |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Cities & towns--Washington (State); Urban growth--Washington (State)--Tacoma |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Tacoma (Wash.); Rainier, Mount (Wash.) |
| Geographic Coverage | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
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| Digital Collection | Early Advertising |
| Digital ID Number | ADV0404 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Pacific Northwest Collection. 979.705 WM |
| Object Type | Advertisement |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original drawing in RGB at 400 dpi, saved in TIFF format, changed to indexed color, enhanced and resized using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm software's JPEG2000 Extension. 2008. |
