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White Bear Lake
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.
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

Teton Valley
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...
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

St. John's Cathedral, high altar
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...
Harold C. Whitehouse Ecclesiastical Architecture

Saint Paul
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Saint Paul (Minn.)
"St. Paul is beautifully located upon a high bluff on the east bank of the river, and is rapidly growing in size and importance. It is quite a business place, everything indicating vigor and activity. Among its prominent buildings are the...
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

Papoose Football Squad, 1931.
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...
EWU Student Life and Activities

Palouse Falls 196 ft. high
Geology; Waterfalls; Volcanic rock; Palouse Falls (Wash.)
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.
Otis Willard Freeman Photograph Collection

Near Mouse River
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Mouse River (N. Dakota)
"Near Mouse River there are salt marshes" "and in some places deposits of salt a quarter of an inch thick." Mouse River valley "resembles that of the Sheyenne (Cheyenne). High ridges divide the plateau bordering the stream...
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

Mount Baker & Cascade range, from Whitby's (Whidbey) Island
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Mount Baker (Wash.); Cascade Range
"Mount Baker is one of the loftiest and most conspicuous peaks of the northern Cascade range; it is nearly as high as Mount Rainier, and, like that mountain, its snow-covered pyramid has the form of a sugar-loaf." Plate LXX.
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

Marias River
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...
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

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.
EWU Student Life and Activities

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.
EWU Student Life and Activities

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.
EWU Student Life and Activities

Herd of bison, near Lake Jessie
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.
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

Grand Coulee
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Canyons; Grand Coulee (Wash.)
"The Grand Coulee is about ten miles wide where it opens on the Columbia River at its northern end, which is a hundred feet above the water, and gradually widens toward the south; its walls, eight hundred feet high are formed of solid basaltic...
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

Fort Union, and distribution of goods to the Assinniboines (Assiniboines)
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...
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

Fort Okinakane (Okanogan)
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:...
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

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

Flathead Lake, looking southward
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Lakes & ponds; Rapids; Waterfalls; Prairies; Islands; Flathead Lake (Mont.)
"Just below the outlet of Flathead Lake there is a series of rapids and falls, one of which, at the time, was fifteen feet high. The country to the west of the lake is a high rolling prairie. Salmon trout, three feet long, are caught in it,...
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

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