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.
"The Peluse (Palouse) River flows over three steppes, each of which is estimated to have an ascent of a thousand feet. The falls descend from the middle of the lower of these steppes." "The fall of the water, which is about thirty...
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...
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Fort Okanogan (Wash.)
"Fort Okinakane (Okanogan) is an old and ruinous establishment of the Hudson Bay Company." "The character of the Columbia along the western border of the Spokane Plain and as far as Fort Okinakane (Okanogan) is described as follows:...
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...
Eastern Washington State College; Eastern Washington University -- Buildings -- History; PE Special Events Pavilion (Eastern Washington University)
Physical Education Special Events Pavilion, known as Phase IV, located on the campus of Eastern Washington State College (currently Eastern Washington University) as seen from the north.
Eastern Washington State College; Eastern Washington University -- Buildings -- History; PE Activities Building (Eastern Washington University)
Physical Education Building, known as the Phase II building, located on the campus of Eastern Washington State College (currently Eastern Washington University) as seen from the north.
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...