Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; White Bear Lake (Minn.)
White Bear Lake, "a beautiful sheet of water, bordered with timber, about fourteen miles long and two wide, with high swelling banks running back a mile or so, and rising to the height of about one hundred and fifty feet." Plate V.
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Teton River (Minn.); Valleys
The Teton Valley, "a vast plain, descending towards the east, the soil of inferior quality, and the dry vegetation indicated the change in the climate observed in going over the high, dry plains towards the Missouri." "The valley...
Cheney State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.); Football players
The Papooses were Cheney Normal's light weight football squad which played neighboring high schools: Front Row, L to R: Arnold Ochs, Anderson, Al Strom, George Werner, Carl Gauksheim, Gordon Rutherford, Richard Wasmund; Standing: Student Coach Carl...
Photograph of the First National Bank of Cheney in Cheney, Washington. The bank is situated on the corner of First St. and Normal Avenue, (now College Avenue) . It was built by Daniel F. Percival in 1889 after a fire destroyed the previous building...
Eastern Washington State College -- Student Activities; Students; Music education
Photograph of students participating in the Eastern Washington State College (currently Eastern Washington University) music and dance portion of the High School Summer Creative Arts Program.
Eastern Washington State College -- Student Activities; Students; Music education
Photograph of students participating in the Eastern Washington State College (currently Eastern Washington University) music and dance portion of the High School Summer Creative Arts Program.
Eastern Washington College of Education -- Student Activities; Students; Arts & crafts
Photograph of students participating in the Eastern Washington State College (currently Eastern Washington University) High School Summer Creative Arts Program.
Photograph looking down on the Palouse Falls in eastern Washington. The falls have a height of approximately 196 ft. Basalt cliffs line the canyon surrounding the falls.
Geology -- Washington (State); Waterfalls; Volcanic rock; Canyons
Photo of Dry Falls, a dry cliff that stands 400 ft. high and 3.5 miles wide. Dry Falls is a feature of Grand Coulee Canyon, which is part of the channeled scablands of eastern Washington.
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Marias River (Mont.)
Marias River "flows in a channel two or three hundred feet below the prairie level, and is tolerable well wooded. The water was at that time one hundred and fifty feet wide and two to four feet deep, slightly milky, with a swift current and...
Lieutenant Mullan's party leaving the Bitter Root Valley and heading "down the river to the Lou-Lou Fork, which is fifteen yards wide and two feet deep at its mouth. Its valley is five hundred yards wide, and the mountains on each side are...
Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist (Spokane, Wash.); Church architecture -- Details; Church architecture -- Washington (State)
Interior of St. John's Cathedral in Spokane Washington. The view is facing east, showing the high altar, above which is the carved stone reredos and above that the trefoil (three-pointed) window. Also shown is the chancel, flanked by the choir...
First graduating class from Amber High School in 1915. Ella Dixon, Franc Mason, Grace Lonthon, and Josie Erlandon. Amber, Washington is located in Spokane County.
Cheney Junior High School building, which was briefly used for some Cheney State Normal School classes following the destruction of the school by fire.
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Bison; Cheyenne River; Lake Jessie
Ascending a high hill after crossing the Sheyenne (Cheyenne) River, the expedition looked out upon an estimated 200,000 buffalo inhabiting the plains separating them from Lake Jessie. Plate X.
Approximately "fifty miles long and fifteen miles wide," Big Hole Prairie "is hemmed in by high mountains on every side except the southeast where Wisdom River passes out from it." Plate XLIX.
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...