Queen Anne Books

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.