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| Title | Photo of interior of Union Station railroad depot, Tacoma, ca. 1911 |
| Photographer | Asahel Curtis |
| Date | ca. 1911 |
| Notes | Built in 1911 as the terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad, Union Station is one of downtown Tacoma's shining jewels. The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific, the Great Northern, and the Union Pacific Railroad joined Northern Pacific to help build the station. A magnificent example of the Beaux Arts style of architecture, the structure served train passengers into the 1980s. |
| Location | United States--Washington (State)--King County--Tacoma; |
| Digital Collection | King County Museum Collections
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| Note About Ownership | This record describes one of more than three hundred artifacts, photographs and documents, submitted by members of the Association of King County Historical Organizations. The King County Collects project took place during the county's sesquicentennial in 2001, to celebrate the shared collection of AKCHO's 205 members. The information presented here is the responsibility of the AKCHO organization which submitted the item for inclusion in the project. |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions, contact Washington State Historical Society, 315 N. Stadium Way, Tacoma, 98403. |
| Credit Line | Washington State Historical Society; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Washington State Historical Society |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from slide as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit color, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using CONTENTdm's image import. |
| Accession/Acquisition Number | Curtis 23147 |
