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.
Fire; Grand Coulee (Wash. : Coulee);Central business districts -- United States -- History.
The Grand Coulee Club on “B” Street in Grand Coulee being protected during a fire. Built in 1933 by Mr. and Mrs. John Pozar, it was operating as “Mom’s Tavern” in 1970.
"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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Clark Fork River (Mont.); Flathead Lake (Mont.)
The Clark Fork River, "being much cut up by coulees, have the appearance of that on the Upper Missouri. The soil is principally a light yellow clay; the stream here is two hundred yards wide, swift and deep, sparsely timbered with pine and...
The train of the Red River hunters consisting "of 824 carts, about 1,200 animals, and 1,300 persons, men, women, and children." The encampment is formed by making "a circular or square yard of the carts, placed side by side with the...
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...
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...
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.
Eastern Washington State College (Cheney, Wash.); Alumni & alumnae; Homecomings; Parades & processions
Photograph of the procession of the graduating class of 1913 being honored at Eastern Washington State College's (currently Eastern Washington University) 1963 Homecoming. Photo location is on "F" Street, looking north toward Pearce Hall...