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...
Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction.
Removal of one of the towers used to support the conveyor belt which delivered aggregate to the west side mix plant. The foundation level of Grand Coulee Dam is complete, and the river flows through diversion slots in the dam.
Structures which were to be inundated by the reservoir were removed before the lake started to fill. The photo appears to show the destruction of one of the piers which supported the Great Northern bridge across the Columbia at Marcus, Washington.
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Waterfalls; Cliffs; Great Falls (Mont.)
The cliffs at the falls are about "one hundred fifty to three hundred feet deep with a steep descent to within fifty feet of the bottom, and for the remaining distance perpendicular walls of red sandstone." "Above the falls the banks...
Automobiles; Automobile travel -- Washington (State) -- Photographs; National Parks Highway Association -- Photograph collections; Inland Automobile Association -- Photograph collections; Guilbert, Frank W., -- d. 1940 -- Photograph collections
The official Mitchell Six automobiles were used during the Chicago to Tacoma National Parks Highway Association tour. The tour began on June 4, 1916 and was to last 33 days and cover 3,100 miles. The tour officially ended on July 7, 1916 in Tacoma,...
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.