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Launch on the Snake River.
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.
Otis Willard Freeman Photograph Collection

Pillars of Hercules
Showalter Hall (Eastern Washington University); Pillars of Hercules (Eastern Washington University); Rock formations;
Pillars of Hercules and Showalter Hall. Showalter Hall was named in honor of the school's president Noah Showalter, 1911-26. The Pillars of Hercules were built in 1915 as a memorial to the administration building that was destroyed by fire in...
EWU Buildings and Grounds

Parachutes on landing
Parachuting; World War II;
Three parachutes after a jump, two on the ground and the other still coming down.
Robert W. Gillette

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

Down to Bedrock
Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction.
Crews working to prepare the southern end of the dam site by removing soil and loose rock.
Hubert Blonk

“A Cut Down Version”
Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction.
Small version of the concrete buckets used during the construction of Grand Coulee Dam. The ones used on Grand Coulee Dam were larger, with a four cubic-yard capacity.
Hubert Blonk

Coffer Dam Construction
Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction; Cofferdams--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam;Cranes, derricks, etc.--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
Construction at Grand Coulee Dam, showing several aspects of work. Drillers with air drills working to get down to un-fractured bedrock, coffer dam construction, and the overhead conveyor belt transporting aggregate to the concrete mixing plants.
Hubert Blonk

“B” Street, Grand Coulee
Grand Coulee (Wash. : Coulee);Abandoned buildings -- United States.
Looking down “B” Street in Grand Coulee, showing mobile homes on the right, and abandoned businesses on the left in the distance.
Hubert Blonk

Boom Times on “B” Street
Grand Coulee (Wash. : Coulee); Central business districts -- United States -- History.
Photo looking down “B” Street in Grand Coulee. The print has been annotated with an arrow showing the location of the Grand Coulee club, later Mom’s Tavern.
Hubert Blonk

Palouse Falls 196 ft. high
Geology; Waterfalls; Volcanic rock; Palouse Falls (Wash.)
Photograph looking down on the Palouse Falls in eastern Washington. The falls have a height of approximately 196 ft. Basalt cliffs line the canyon surrounding the falls.
Otis Willard Freeman Photograph Collection

Palouse Canyon below the falls
Geology; Canyons; Rivers; Volcanic rock
Photograph of the Palouse Canyon below the falls, in eastern Washington. Basalt cliffs line the canyon walls and the Palouse River winds its way down to join the Snake River.
Otis Willard Freeman Photograph Collection

Visiting the Dam
Freemasonry -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)
Unidentified group of men parading down the street at Coulee Dam. Many are wearing Fezzes, suggesting possibly a visit by a fraternal order.
Hubert Blonk

Entrance to the Bitter Root Mountains, by the Lou Lou Fork
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Valleys; Forks; Rivers; Bitterroot Range; Mullan, John, 1830-1909.
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...
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

Hot Spring mound, in the "Deer Lodge" prairie, of the Rocky Mountains
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Springs; Mounds (Landforms); Prairies
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...
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

Bank of Cheney and L. Walter's Harness Shop
Cheney (Wash.) -- History; Buildings; Banks; Saddlery; Harnesses; False fronts;
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...
Historic Images of Cheney, WA

City limit sign asking drivers to slow down and respect the law
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...
Inland Automobile Association

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