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...
State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.); Eastern Washington University -- Buildings -- History
Photograph of the burned out remains of the Administration Building of the Cheney State Normal School (now Eastern Washington University) on April 24, 1912.
Eastern Washington College of Education; Eastern Washington University -- Buildings -- History; Hargreaves Library (Eastern Washington University); Libraries (Rooms)
Photograph of library staff checking out materials to patrons at the loan desk of Hargreaves Library, Eastern Washington College of Education (currently Eastern Washington University).
Washington (State) -- Cheney -- History; Northern Pacific Railway Company -- History; Railroads
Photograph of an early 20th Century train, probably the Spokane - Puget Sound Local of the Northern Pacific Railway, heading westbound out of Cheney, ca. 1912.
Eastern Washington College of Education -- Students
Lola Maye Maye, posing on the parapet of the Administration Building [Showalter Hall] during the annual Senior Breakfast at Eastern Washington College of Education (currently Eastern Washington University).
Concrete construction; Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction.
Concrete was carried from the mixing plant to the job site in four cubic yard buckets, which were loaded on flat cars, each carrying four of the buckets at a time. The trains ran out onto temporary trestle work, and cranes picked up the buckets,...