Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Puget Sound; Mount Rainier; Whidbey Island (Wash.)
"Puget Sound forms a most variegated compound of narrow inlets and sounds, interlinked among each other by passages and channels, and connected with Admiralty Inlet" only by the Narrows, a contracted passage near Point Defiance which...
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Lake Jessie
"The water of Lake Jessie is considerably saline in its character," "and the theory for the saline qualities is found in the fact that it is never washed out, and retains the salt deposits and incrustations." Plate XI.
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.
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.
Concrete construction; Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction.
Concrete was carried from the mixing plant to the job site in four cubic yard buckets, which were loaded on flat cars, each carrying four of the buckets at a time. The trains ran out onto temporary trestle work, and cranes picked up the buckets,...
Eastern Washington College of Education -- Students
Lola Maye Maye, posing on the parapet of the Administration Building [Showalter Hall] during the annual Senior Breakfast at Eastern Washington College of Education (currently Eastern Washington University).
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.
Eastern Washington College of Education; Eastern Washington University -- Buildings -- History; Hargreaves Library (Eastern Washington University); Libraries (Rooms)
Photograph of library staff checking out materials to patrons at the loan desk of Hargreaves Library, Eastern Washington College of Education (currently Eastern Washington University).
State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.); Eastern Washington University -- Buildings -- History
Photograph of the burned out remains of the Administration Building of the Cheney State Normal School (now Eastern Washington University) on April 24, 1912.