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    • Grand Coulee

    • Grand Coulee

    • 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...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Sauk River

    • Sauk River

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Sauk River (Minn.)

    • Sauk River at the point of the expeditions "ford is about 120 feet wide, though, owing to the obliquity of the banks and rapidity of current, the ford is near 300 feet wide and the water five feet deep." Plate III.
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Coeur D'Alene Mission St Ignatius River

    • Coeur D'Alene Mission St Ignatius River

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Coeur D'Alene Mission; Churches; Prairies; Rivers

    • "The mission is located upon a hill overlooking extensive prairies stretching to the east and west toward the Coeur D'Alene Mountains and the Columbia River. About a hundred acres of the eastern prairie adjoining the Mission are enclosed and...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Kettle Falls, Columbia River

    • Kettle Falls, Columbia River

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Waterfalls; Columbia River; Kettle Falls (Wash.)

    • "The Columbia River at Fort Colville is about three hundred and fifty yards wide just above the Sometknu, or Kettle Falls. These consist of two pitches, one of fifteen feet and another below it of ten, and the river is narrowed to two hundred...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Fort Okinakane (Okanogan)

    • Fort Okinakane (Okanogan)

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Fort Okanogan (Wash.)

    • "Fort Okinakane (Okanogan) is an old and ruinous establishment of the Hudson Bay Company." "The character of the Columbia along the western border of the Spokane Plain and as far as Fort Okinakane (Okanogan) is described as follows:...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Fort Benton

    • Fort Benton

    • 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...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Dalles

    • 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
    • Nez Perces

    • Nez Perces

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Nez Perce Indians

    • Drawing depicts the meeting of the expedition party with "a band of about fifty Nez Perce Indians going to hunt. They have from 250 to 300 horses, most of them splendid animals, in fine condition, and with perfectly sound backs. Women and...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • General Store in Cheney, Washington

    • General Store in Cheney, Washington

    • Cheney (Wash.) -- History; General stores;

    • Photograph of the interior of Martin Hubbard's general store located in Cheney, Washington. The building was constructed about 1900 and was located on First Street. The photograph shows four people in period clothing, goods lining the shelves on...
    • Historic Images of Cheney, WA
    • “Water & Life” Exhibit

    • “Water & Life” Exhibit

    • Columbia Basin Project (U.S.); Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State)

    • A visitor learns about the Columbia Basin Project and Grand Coulee Dam.
    • Hubert Blonk
    • Steamboat Rock

    • Steamboat Rock

    • Columbia Basin; Columbia River Region -- History.

    • Landmark in the upper Grand Coulee about ten miles south of the Grand Coulee Dam.
    • Hubert Blonk
    • Downtown Grand Coulee

    • Downtown Grand Coulee

    • Grand Coulee (Wash. : Coulee);Central business districts -- United States -- History.

    • Probably taken about 1936, the business district has service stations and stores. The temporary contractor’s railroad crosses the street near the center of the photograph.
    • Hubert Blonk
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