File:Snoqualmie Falls and lodge, near Snoqualmie, 1920 (MOHAI 1531).jpg

English:

By 1918, the railroad and the Sunset Highway brought tourists to Snoqualmie Falls. Some stayed at Snoqualmie Falls Lodge or stopped off to enjoy one of the lodge's famous breakfasts. Across the river from the lodge was the Puget Sound Power & Light Company's hydroelectric generating station, built in the 1890s. The electrical station is still there, but Salish Lodge now occupies the site of the old Snoqualmie Falls Lodge. Puget Power is now Puget Sound Energy. This photo shows Snoqualmie Falls as it looked in 1920. Snoqualmie Falls Lodge sits above the falls (left). Puget Power's transformer house can be seen in the distant center of the photo. Spray from the waterfall floats in the gorge below. In the 1930s, the owners of the lodge promised visitors that they could see "a rainbow every day" in the waterfall's spray.

Handwritten on sleeve: Studebaker at Snoqualmie Falls Lodge - 1920. Caption by MOHAI staff.

• Subjects (LCTGM): Waterfalls--Washington (State)--Snoqualmie; Hydroelectric power--Washington (State)--Snoqualmie; Hotels--Washington (State)--Snoqualmie; Forests--Washington (State)--Snoqualmie; Snoqualmie Falls (Wash." Waterfall)

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The MOHAI description is a bit confusing as to the lodge. The present-day Salish Lodge and Spa is an an expansion of the 1916 lodge, not a complete replacement. Portions of the structure go all the way back.