Photograph showing a view of Main Street in Cheney, Washington. View is looking west on Main Street form the corner of "D" and Main Streets. The town has electric lights but the streets are still dirt. The turret on the First National...
Concrete construction; Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction; Silos.
Cement storage silos and unloading platform at Grand Coulee. The cement was pumped from this location to the mixing house at the dam, a distance of over a mile.
Exploration party moving up the Sun River valley "in the direction of the pass between the Crown Butte and the Rattlers, prominent landmarks west of Sun River and visible at a great distance." Plate XXIX.
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...
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...
Drawing depicts Milk River with Bears Paw Mountain in the distance. Bears Paw, "a broad and rugged mountain upheaval, stretches from Milk River to the Missouri." Plate XXII.
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...
"Minnehaha, or the Laughing Water, called also Brown's Falls. It is situated west of the Mississippi, and distant about three miles from Fort Snelling. Ten miles above the falls the stream flows from Lake Calhoun, and it passes through a level...
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...
"There are two principle falls, one of twenty feet and the other of from ten to twelve feet; in the latter, there being a perpendicular fall of seven or eight feet; for a quarter of a mile the descent is rapid, over a rough bed of rocks, and...
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.
National Parks Highway Association -- Photograph collections; Inland Automobile Association -- Photograph collections; Guilbert, Frank W., -- d. 1940 -- Photograph collections
Man standing with hands in pockets looking off into distance on the National Parks Highway Association tour.