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- Coffer Dam Construction
- Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction.
- Work on the coffer dam at the site of Grand Coulee Dam. One crane is on a barge in the river, another is on land.
- Hubert Blonk
- Columbia River
- Columbia River -- History; Columbia River Region -- History.
- Winter, 1937.
- Hubert Blonk
- Columbia River
- Columbia River -- History; Columbia River Region -- History.
- Winter, 1937.
- Hubert Blonk
- Current Motor, Snake River
- Waterwheels; Snake River
- Water wheel placed horizontally in the river to utilize the current of the flowing river.
- Otis Willard Freeman Photograph Collection
- Current motor, Snake River
- Waterwheels; Snake River
- Water wheel placed horizontally in the river to utilize the current of the flowing river.
- Otis Willard Freeman Photograph Collection
- Junction Columbia River and Goose Flats
- Geology -- Washington (State)
- Views of the junction of the Columbia River and the Goose Flats, Washington
- Otis Willard Freeman Photograph Collection
- Grand Coulee Dam Site
- Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction.
- View looking down river just as construction began.
- Hubert Blonk
- Camp Red River hunters
- Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Carts & wagons; Hunting
- The train of the Red River hunters consisting "of 824 carts, about 1,200 animals, and 1,300 persons, men, women, and children." The encampment is formed by making "a circular or square yard of the carts, placed side by side with the...
- 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
- Granite canyon
- Idaho - landforms. Snake River - Idaho; Canyons; Granite; Hell's Canyon; Snake River
- The Snake River cuts through granite at this location in Hell's Canyon, Idaho.
- Otis Willard Freeman Photograph Collection
- Remnant of bridge pier.
- Columbia River -- History; Bridges.
- The remains of one of the bridge piers that crossed the river floats by after it was dynamited to remove it from the bed of the river.
- Hubert Blonk
- Mouth of Peluse (Palouse) River
- Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Palouse River (Wash.)
- The Peluse (Palouse) River "runs through a deep canyon, surrounded by isolated volcanic buttes, to its junction with the Snake River." Plate XL.
- Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
- Source of the Peluse (Palouse)
- Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Palouse River (Wash.); Mountains
- The Peluse (Palouse) River "has its source in the main ridge of the Bitter Root" Mountains, "and flows in nearly a straight course through a valley some twenty miles wide," bearing north "through a country densely timbered...
- Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
- McNary locks, Washington shore
- Dams; Locks (Hydraulic engineering); McNary Dam
- The lock is a single lift type, 86 feet wide and 683 feet long, with a 15-foot minimum depth over the sills. The vertical lifts average 75 feet. The lock is located on the Washington side of the Columbia River.
- Otis Willard Freeman Photograph Collection
- Columbia River, junction of Des Chutes
- Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Des Chutes River
- The junction where the Des Chutes River flows into the Columbia River. Plate LXVII.
- Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
- Crossing the Bitter Root
- Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Bitterroot River; Fords (Stream crossings)
- The expedition crossing the ford to the left bank of the Bitter Root River from the northern bank on which they had been traveling. Plate XXXIV.
- Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
- Cottonwood grove
- Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Trees; Milk River (Mont.); Valleys; Military camps
- The expedition camp set up in the midst of a cottonwood grove located on the Milk River in the Milk River Valley. Plate XIX.
- Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
- Dalles
- Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Columbia River; Channels; Indian encampments; Canoes; Dalles (Or.)
- The Dalles is a narrow place in the Columbia River, where the channel has been worn out of the rocks, below which about ten miles, is the mouth of the Klikitat River. Drawing shows an Indian encampment on the bank and a canoe on the water. Plate...
- Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
- Grand Coulee Dam Construction
- Columbia River -- History; Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction.
- The Columbia River flowed through slots in the dam, as other sections were poured.
- Hubert Blonk
- Great Falls of the Missouri River
- 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...
- Pacific Railroad Survey Prints