Lieutenant Mullan's party leaving the Bitter Root Valley and heading "down the river to the Lou-Lou Fork, which is fifteen yards wide and two feet deep at its mouth. Its valley is five hundred yards wide, and the mountains on each side are...
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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...
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...
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...
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 a group of men sitting in and gathered around one of the official Mitchell Six automobiles 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...
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 L. H. Brown, W. G. Eden from Chicago, and unidentified man standing near one of the official Mitchell Six automobiles used during the Chicago to Tacoma National Parks Highway Association tour. The tour began on June 4, 1916 and was to...
Automobiles; Automobile travel -- Washington (State) -- Photographs; National Parks Highway Association -- Photograph collections; Inland Automobile Association -- Photograph collections; Guilbert, Frank W., -- d. 1940 -- Photograph collections;...
City limit sign asking drivers to slow down and respect the law. This sign was located along the route of the 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...
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 T. S. Lane and L. H. Brown in front of one of the official Mitchell Six automobiles 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...
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 a group of men sitting in and gathered around one of the official Mitchell Six automobiles 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,...
Photograph of the Bank of Cheney and L. Walter's Harness & Saddle shop 1887. Bank of Cheney was a private bank established by Daniel Percival in 1881. It is a false front building common to the period, that eventually burned down and was...
Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction;Cofferdams -- Design and construction.
The preparation of the southern end of the dam site has had most of the loose rock removed, and the coffer dam complete. The work of removing soil and loose rock on the north end of the dam was still under way.
Columbia Basin Project -- Grand Coulee Dam (Washington) -- 1933-1983; Washington (State) -- Grand Coulee Dam -- History, 1933-1983; Grand Coulee Dam -- Washington (State)
The committee responsible for planning the 50th anniversary observance of completion of Grand Coulee Dam. Left to Right: Dick Ahrens, Spokane Chamber of Commerce; Mr. and Mrs. Wistar Burgess, Columbia Basin Development League; Mrs. Aherens;...
Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction; Spillways -- Design and construction.
Grand Coulee Dam spillway and power house under construction, looking west.
Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dedication services;marching drills;Indians of North America
U.S. and Canadian tribal color guard with US. And Canadian flags, in tribal regalia, at the ceremony dedicating the third power house at Grand Coulee Dam. Spectators and dam are in the background.
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.
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...