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.
"This valley for the most part is wide and open." There are "spurs separating it from the Hell-Gate Valley on the south," and "separate on the north the various tributaries flowing into the Blackfoot River." Plate LXII.
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...
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...
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Mount Rainier (Wash.)
"Mount Rainier is one of the highest and most prominent peaks of the Cascade range." "The mountain was first discovered by Vancouver in the beginning of May of 1792, from Port Townsend. He named it in honor of his friend, Rear...
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Mount Baker (Wash.); Cascade Range
"Mount Baker is one of the loftiest and most conspicuous peaks of the northern Cascade range; it is nearly as high as Mount Rainier, and, like that mountain, its snow-covered pyramid has the form of a sugar-loaf." Plate LXX.
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...
Cheney State Normal School -- Classrooms; State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.); Art education
Photograph of an art class at the Cheney State Normal School (currently Eastern Washington University). The class was most likely held in the old Training School Building, which was used for most normal school functions between May, 1912 and June,...
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