The Way Things Were

[fotografr]

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I recently visited the Fort Vancouver National Historical site in Vancouver, WA, and was surprised to see people in period outfits just as they might have appeared 150 years ago. The three photos here are of The blacksmith shop, Hudson's Bay Trading Company store and the carpentry shop. I thought the Q handled some difficult lighting situations quite nicely.

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Edited October 11, 2017 by fotografr

[stuny]

Lovely.

 

Of course this is not a historic recreation, but actually the result of crossing a time portal, and apparently getting back safely.

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[fotografr]

Lovely.

 

Of course this is not a historic recreation, but actually the result of crossing a time portal, and apparently getting back safely.

I wondered. But there I was with this little camera that made pictures without film.

[Michael Hiles]

I didn't know that the Hudson's Bay Company operated in the United States 150 years ago. 

[platypus]

Nice!...particularly the first shot.

[fotografr]

I didn't know that the Hudson's Bay Company operated in the United States 150 years ago. 

From Wikipedia, but also available from many other sources:

 

"19th century

In 1821, the North West Company of Montreal and Hudson's Bay Company were forcibly merged by intervention of the British government to put an end to often-violent competition. 175 posts, 68 of them the HBC's, were reduced to 52 for efficiency and because many were redundant as a result of the rivalry and were inherently unprofitable.^[42] Their combined territory was extended by a licence to the North-Western Territory, which reached to the Arctic Ocean in the north and, with the creation of the Columbia Department in the Pacific Northwest, to the Pacific Ocean in the west. The NWC's regional headquarters at Fort George (Fort Astoria) was relocated to Fort Vancouver, which became the HBC base of operations on the Pacific Slope.^{[43]:369–370"}