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Fort Benton
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Fort Benton (Mont.); Missouri River
"Fort Benton stands on the eastern bank of the Missouri, near the Great Bend." "The river is here perfectly transparent at most seasons of the year. The Teton River empties into the Missouri six miles below Fort Benton; the Marias...
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

Shyenne River
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Cheyenne River
"The Shyenne (Cheyenne) River is 60 feet wide and 14 feet deep, being the largest branch of Red River crossed by the expedition train." Plate IX.
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

Falls of the Spokane
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Waterfalls; Spokane River; Spokane Falls
"There are two principle falls, one of twenty feet and the other of from ten to twelve feet; in the latter, there being a perpendicular fall of seven or eight feet; for a quarter of a mile the descent is rapid, over a rough bed of rocks, and...
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

Hot Spring mound, in the "Deer Lodge" prairie, of the Rocky Mountains
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Springs; Mounds (Landforms); Prairies
A conical mound near the center of a beautiful prairie called the "Deer Lodge". The mound stands "about thirty feet high, around the base of which are innumerable springs of hot water. On top of the mound a spring three feet in...
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

Temporary Gate for Grand Coulee Dam
Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction.
A temporary floodgate used to close off a slot in the dam is being barged into position.
Hubert Blonk

WiFiPoz -- an accurate indoor positioning system
Location-based services; Mobile geographic information systems; Global Positioning System
Theses -- Restricted Access

Distribution of goods to the Assiniboines
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Assiniboine Indians; Gifts; Rites & ceremonies
Assiniboines at the expedition encampment "arranged to receive their presents. They were seated around in the form of three sides of a square, the open side being opposite to the places occupied by the expedition party, the chief, and the...
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

Ballard Locks
Locks (Hydraulic engineering); Boats; Lakes -- Washington (State) -- Lake Union; Bays (Bodies of water) -- Puget Sound;
Boats being lowered in the government locks from Lake Union to Puget Sound.
Communities of the Inland Northwest

Green Bananas Being Unloaded
Bananas; Fruit; Cargo ships; Shipping; Cargo holds; Ships;
Cargo of green bananas being unloaded from Taranger Norwegian Freightor in Seattle, Washington.
Communities of the Inland Northwest

Building the Contractor’s Railroad
Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction; Scrapers (Earthmoving machinery) ; Horse-drawn vehicles -- History
Construction of the temporary railroad from Coulee City to the dam site utilized methods common a half century earlier when the Northern Pacific built its branch to Coulee City. Horse drawn fresno scrapers are being used to grade the roadbed.
Hubert Blonk

Fort Colville Monument
Historical marker commemorating Fort Colville, which had to be moved due to the site being flooded by Lake Roosevelt.
Hubert Blonk

Crossing the HellGate River May 5th 1854
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Hellgate River (Mont.); Floods
Lieutenant Mullan and party crossing the Hell-Gate River. This river being flooded, "his whole party and property were nearly lost in using a raft unmanageable in the swift current." Plate LVI.
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

Riparian understory dynamics and relationship to dams on the Elwha River, Washington
Riparian ecology--Washington (State)--Elwha River; Stream ecology--Washington (State)--Elwha River; Elwha River (Wash.)
Theses

Cantonment Stevens, looking westward
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Military life; Valleys
Looking westward from Cantonment Stevens in the Bitter Root valley. Lieutenant Mullan and his party "established this camp ten miles above Fort Owen." The cantonment sat a little removed from the Indian camp and consisted of "four...
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

Four Cubic-yard Buckets
Concrete construction; Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction.
Photo of new equipment being assembled at the contractor’s yard at Coulee City. Flat cars with brand new dump buckets for moving concrete.
Hubert Blonk

St. John's Cathedral, construction of arches
Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist (Spokane, Wash.); Church architecture -- Details; Church architecture -- Washington (State); Arches; Construction
Photograph of a stone gothic arch being constructed over wooden form at St. John's Cathedral in Spokane Washington.
Harold C. Whitehouse Ecclesiastical Architecture

St. John's Cathedral, roof construction
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.
Harold C. Whitehouse Ecclesiastical Architecture

Alumni - CSNS Class of '13
Eastern Washington State College (Cheney, Wash.); Alumni & alumnae; Homecomings; Parades & processions
Photograph of an alumni of the graduating class of 1913 being honored at Eastern Washington State College's (now Eastern Washington University) 1963 Homecoming.
EWU Student Life and Activities

Fieldhouse fire, April 25, 1977
Eastern Washington University; Fieldhouse (Eastern Washington University); Eastern Washington University -- Buildings -- History
Photograph of north face of the Eastern Washington University Fieldhouse as it burned to the ground on April 25, 1977. The Fieldhouse was being dismantled at the time the fire occurred. It had been used for a variety of recreational and physical...
EWU Buildings and Grounds

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