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...
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Assiniboine Indians; Gifts; Fort Union (Mont.)
"Fort Union is situated on the eastern bank of the Missouri River, about 2 ¾ miles above the mouth of the Yellowstone. It was built by the American Fur Company in 1830, and has from that time been the principal supply store or depot of that...
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...
Concrete construction; Construction workers -- United States; Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction.
Two workmen appear to be pressure washing the top of a pour of concrete.
National Parks Highway Association -- Photograph collections; Inland Automobile Association -- Photograph collections; Guilbert, Frank W., -- d. 1940 -- Photograph collections
Photograph of the Great Lakes Naval Training Center with two cannons on the route of the National Parks Highway Association tour.
Jackson, Henry M. -- (Henry Martin), -- 1912-1983.
Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson (1912 – 1983). Jackson was an anti-communist, pro-defense member of the Democratic Party, who served the U.S. Congress from 1941 until his death in 1983. Elected to the House of Representatives in 1940, Congressman...
Eastern Washington College of Education - students; College students -- Washington (State) -- Cheney -- Photographs; Students
Photograph of two Senior Hall residents posed in a tree on the campus of Eastern Washington College of Education (currently Eastern Washington University).
"The Columbia River at Fort Colville is about three hundred and fifty yards wide just above the Sometknu, or Kettle Falls. These consist of two pitches, one of fifteen feet and another below it of ten, and the river is narrowed to two hundred...
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Marias River (Mont.)
Marias River "flows in a channel two or three hundred feet below the prairie level, and is tolerable well wooded. The water was at that time one hundred and fifty feet wide and two to four feet deep, slightly milky, with a swift current and...
Automobiles; Automobile travel -- Washington (State) -- Photographs; National Parks Highway Association -- Photograph collections; Inland Automobile Association -- Photograph collections; Guilbert, Frank W., -- d. 1940 -- Photograph collections
Naval cadets posing with two of the official Mitchell Six automobiles used during the Chicago to Tacoma National Parks Highway Association tour. Photograph was taken in front of the Great Lakes Naval Training Center in Illinois.
Automobiles; Automobile travel -- Washington (State) -- Photographs; National Parks Highway Association -- Photograph collections; Inland Automobile Association -- Photograph collections; Guilbert, Frank W., -- d. 1940 -- Photograph collections
Photograph of one of the official Mitchell touring cars parked in front of the Great Lakes Naval Training Center with two men sitting inside it. This is located on the route of the National Parks Highway Association tour.