"Minnehaha, or the Laughing Water, called also Brown's Falls. It is situated west of the Mississippi, and distant about three miles from Fort Snelling. Ten miles above the falls the stream flows from Lake Calhoun, and it passes through a level...
This photograph in the collection was under the name Moderhak. Maybe this soldiers name was Moderhak. There is no indication as to where this photograph was taken but since it is in a collection with multiple World War II items from Italy we...
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.
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Mount Rainier (Wash.)
"Mount Rainier is one of the highest and most prominent peaks of the Cascade range." "The mountain was first discovered by Vancouver in the beginning of May of 1792, from Port Townsend. He named it in honor of his friend, Rear...
Right of way -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Philip Nalder, head of the right of way department for the construction of Grand Coulee Dam. Nalder is nailing a notice to the door of a property purchased by the government indicating that it is now Interior Department property.
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...
Automobiles; Automobile travel -- Washington (State) -- Photographs; National Parks Highway Association -- Photograph collections; Inland Automobile Association -- Photograph collections; Guilbert, Frank W., -- d. 1940 -- Photograph collections
Photograph of one of the official Mitchell touring cars parked in front of the Great Lakes Naval Training Center with two men sitting inside it. This is located on the route of the National Parks Highway Association tour.
"The Peluse (Palouse) River flows over three steppes, each of which is estimated to have an ascent of a thousand feet. The falls descend from the middle of the lower of these steppes." "The fall of the water, which is about thirty...
Photograph of the Cheney Drug Co. in Cheney, Washington. It is a false front building common to the time and has a wooden sidewalk in front. Built by F. A. Pomeroy, a Cheney physician, this brick building has housed a number of businesses since its...
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...