Historic Photos of Puget Sound
In many ways, Puget Sound looks today as it did in the eighteenth century, when its first explorers probed into the bays and inlets. The Olympics flank the west and the Cascades rise to the east with Mount Rainier looming to the south. The deep, cold water still laps against the shore, but many of the beaches have yielded to homes and industries. Instead of the dense forests, great cities, homes to millions, stretch far back from the shore. Hundreds of salmon swim up the Sound into rivers that once saw fish in the tens of millions.
Beginning a decade or two after the first American settlements, photographers captured scenes of Puget Sound’s people, ships, and communities, kept alive in archives and history books. Teeming with other photographs up to the 1970s, these striking black-and-white images in Historic Photos of Puget Sound explore life of this unique Washington region for its residents, visitors, and admirers to enjoy even now.
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Book details
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Formats
- Hardcover
- Subjects
- History › United States › State & Local › Pacific Northwest (OR, WA)
Photography › Subjects & Themes - Topics
- Pacific Northwest history · historical photography · black-and-white photography · local history · pictorial history · Washington State
- ISBN-13
- 9781596525443
About the author
DAVID WILMA is a historian and deputy director of HistoryLink.org, a free online encyclopedia of Washington State history, where he researched and wrote hundreds of articles. His books include Historic Photos of Seattle in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, Historic Photos of Puget Sound, and Power for the People: A History of Seattle City Light.
Wilma holds a degree in history from the University of Washington. His research and script formed the basis for The Power of Snoqualmie Falls, a documentary that aired on public television.
When he’s not writing, Wilma serves on the Seattle Office of Professional Accountability Review Board, providing civilian oversight of the Seattle Police Department, and volunteers as a guardian ad litem for abused and neglected children.
David splits his time between Seattle and an island in Puget Sound.