Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Puget Sound; Mount Rainier; Whidbey Island (Wash.)
"Puget Sound forms a most variegated compound of narrow inlets and sounds, interlinked among each other by passages and channels, and connected with Admiralty Inlet" only by the Narrows, a contracted passage near Point Defiance which...
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Fort Walla Walla (Wash.)
Fort Walla Walla was first built along the Columbia River by the Northwest Company to act as a trading center. A second fort was built by the Hudson Bay Company prior to 1831 and served as a frontier post protecting their interests. This was...
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Springs; Bitterroot Range
Near the summit of the Bitter Root Mountains, "a hot spring with a temperature of 132 degrees, around which was a fine prairie camping ground." Plate LVII.
National Parks Highway Association -- Photograph collections; Inland Automobile Association -- Photograph collections; Guilbert, Frank W., -- d. 1940 -- Photograph collections
A paved road lined with three buildings and a bowling sign at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center in Illinois. This is located on the route of the National Parks Highway Association tour.
Eastern Washington State College -- Classrooms; Teachers
Photograph of a professor smoking a pipe while assisting a student in an Eastern Washington State College (currently Eastern Washington University) classroom.
Edmonds, James; Eastern Washington University. Music Dept.; Eastern Washington University -- Faculty; Eastern Washington University -- History
Photograph of a piano performance given by James J. Edmonds who taught Music at Eastern Washington University from 1962 and became a Professor of Music Emeritus in 1987. He died in a tragic automobile accident on Feb. 7, 2002, that also took the...
Celebrations -- Washington (State) -- Cheney; Cheney (Wash.) -- History
Photograph of the Grand Marshall driving a decorated open automobile in a Cheney, Washington, parade in 1910. Several other people occupy the vehicle. Photograph also shows a false-front restaurant and hotel in downtown Cheney.
Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Langlie, Arthur B. -- (Arthur Bernard), -- 1900-1966;Banks, Frank Arthur, -- 1883-1957.;Darland, A. F. (USBR Field Engineer); James, Jim (Chief of the Nez Perce Indian Tribe)
Governor Arthur B. Langlie touring the power house at Grand Coulee Dam. Left to Right: Arthur B. Langlie; Frank A. Banks; A. F. Darland; Chief Jim James.
Motor launch “Miss Coulee” at dock, with a group of sight-seers. This may have been a cruise for the Lions Club, as a Lions pennant is displayed near the bow of the vessel.
Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist (Spokane, Wash.); Church architecture -- Washington (State); Construction
Photograph of Bishop Cross looking on as two well-dressed ladies examine a cut stone, perhaps a corner stone, amid much heavy construction scaffolding at St. John's Cathedral in Spokane Washington.
Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist (Spokane, Wash.); Church architecture -- Washington (State); Construction; Roofs
Photograph of a view of the roof sheathing, probably copper, being applied to St. John's Cathedral, Spokane Washington. Photograph also shows a ladder on the roof in the foreground.
Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist (Spokane, Wash.); Church architecture -- Washington (State)
Photograph of the construction of St. John's Cathedral in Spokane Washington. Photograph shows a distant view from the north of the cathedral partially completed. Construction was halted at this stage in 1929 as a result of the stock market...