Trade Card No. 32 from the Arbuckle Coffee Company. "One of a series of 50 cards giving a pictorial history of the United States and Territories". This is a unique and wonderfully illustrated card. On the reverse of the card are a few advertising words for Arbuckle Coffee plus a short history on the state of Washington. Chromolithographie Chromolithography out of a scrapbook, 1892, 0,3 x 0,5 inch/76 x 127 mm. The right border of the card is flawed. Illustrations are bright and clean.

WASHINGTON, together with Oregon, comprised a territory long held in dispute by the United States and Great Britain. There was a joint occupation of this section by both nations until 1846, when the American Government, by treaty, acquired undisputed possession. Its history is identical with Oregon. The earliest modern explorer of the Washington Coast was Juan Perez in 1774. In 1778, Captain James Cook, a celebrated English navigator, made careful explorations along the coast. In 1787 Captain Barclay Law, and in 1788, Captain Meares explored the Strait under the British flag, and fur-traders cruised along the coast, buying sea-otter furs from the Indians. In 1789 Captain Robert Gray, an American sea captain, entered several Washington harbors, and two years later, discovered and named Gray's Harbor, then he ascended for twenty-five miles the great river, to which he gave the name of his ship, the Columbia.
In 1805 Lewis and Clark, with an exploring party of American soldiers, descended the Clear Water, Snake, and Columbia rivers to the Pacific Ocean and wintered on the coast. The first settlement was at Turnwater in 1845. The growth of Washington was very slow until the construction of the railroads. These made connections with the East and also southward to California. Ever since a very prosperous development has taken place.
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