Washington Water Power Company; Four Lakes (Wash.) -- History; Railroad stations -- Washington (State); Transportation -- Washington (State) -- History
Photograph of travelers watching the interurban train arriving at the Washington Water Power Meadow Lake Station in Four Lakes, Washington.
Cheney (Wash.) -- History; Washington (State) -- Cheney -- History; Railroads; Railroad cars; Railroad stations; Washington Water Power Company -- History
Photograph of the Washington Water Power interurban electric terminal in Cheney, Washington. Photograph also shows railroad car and passengers.
Photograph of the F.M. Martin Grain & Milling Co., an early mill located on the north side of the Northern Pacific Railroad tracks in Cheney, Washington. Photograph shows Northern Pacific Railroad cars, horses and wagon, bags of grain, and...
Celebrations -- Washington (State) -- Spokane; Parades & processions -- Washington (State) -- Spokane
Photograph of Cheney's Princess in the 1910 parade of Inland Empire Days, Spokane Pow Wow. The princess is in the back seat of an open car festooned with white fabric and flowers. A behatted man and woman, both dressed in white, are in the front...
Washington (State) -- Cheney -- History; Northern Pacific Railway Company -- History; Railroads
Photograph of an early 20th Century train, probably the Spokane - Puget Sound Local of the Northern Pacific Railway, heading westbound out of Cheney, ca. 1912.
Kirby Jones was the Assistant Engineer for M.W.A.K. Co. at Grand Coulee Dam. The company was Mason, Walsh, Atkinson, and Kier, a consortium of contractors.
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; Fort Vancouver (Wash.)
Drawing of Fort Vancouver which was the administrative headquarters and main supply depot for the Hudson's Bay Company's fur trading operations in the immense Columbia Department. Under the leadership of John McLoughlin, the fort became the center...
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Assiniboine Indians; Gifts; Fort Union (Mont.)
"Fort Union is situated on the eastern bank of the Missouri River, about 2 ¾ miles above the mouth of the Yellowstone. It was built by the American Fur Company in 1830, and has from that time been the principal supply store or depot of that...
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Fort Okanogan (Wash.)
"Fort Okinakane (Okanogan) is an old and ruinous establishment of the Hudson Bay Company." "The character of the Columbia along the western border of the Spokane Plain and as far as Fort Okinakane (Okanogan) is described as follows:...