Gaines, Xerpha Mae -- Photograph collections; State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.); State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.) -- Students -- Photographs; College students -- Washington (State) -- Cheney -- Photographs; State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.)...
YMCA officers 1906, Cheney State Normal School. Verso reads top to bottom. Homer Hayes; Perry Borgstrom; "Gussie" Lybecker.
State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.) -- Students -- Photographs; Eastern Washington University -- History; Young Men's Christian associations; Student organizations
Photograph of the 27 members of the YMCA associated with Cheney Normal School (now Eastern Washington University) seated on the steps of the administration building. Caption written on the bottom of the photograph reads, "Y.M.C.A. WASH. STATE...
Spillways -- Design and construction; Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction.
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Marias River (Mont.)
Marias River "flows in a channel two or three hundred feet below the prairie level, and is tolerable well wooded. The water was at that time one hundred and fifty feet wide and two to four feet deep, slightly milky, with a swift current and...
Snake River; Cheney State Normal School -- Field trips; School field trips; Launches
Photo from the top of a cliff looking down upon an early launch nosing into the river bank at the bottom of the cliff. Launch appears to be gasoline engine powered. Several people are seen on the decks, and at least one person is climbing the cliff.
A conical mound near the center of a beautiful prairie called the "Deer Lodge". The mound stands "about thirty feet high, around the base of which are innumerable springs of hot water. On top of the mound a spring three feet in...
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...
Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction.
The initial level of concrete has been poured across the entire distance of the bottom of the dam. The Columbia is flowing over the central portion of the dam.
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...
Gaines, Xerpha Mae -- Photograph collections; State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.); State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.) -- Students -- Photographs; College students -- Washington (State) -- Cheney -- Photographs
Cheney State Normal School (currently Eastern Washington University) Eighth Grade Class, Training School, 1907. Verso reads left to right. Top row: Dale smith; [unknown]; Tootsy Bab; Hazel; Elsie; Ethel; [unknown]; Hazel Skinner; Edith Lybecker;...
Gaines, Xerpha Mae -- Photograph collections; State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.); State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.) -- Football -- Photographs; Eastern Washington University -- History
Photograph of the Cheney State Normal School (currently Eastern Washington University) football team, 1904. Verso reads left to right. Top row: Leslie Crawford ; Pete Tulley ; George Spangle ; Horace Ridenour ; Ed Gaines ; John S. McCann ;...