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Cheney Junior High School
Schools
Cheney Junior High School building, which was briefly used for some Cheney State Normal School classes following the destruction of the school by fire.
Historic Images of Cheney, WA

Trains Carrying Concrete
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,...
Hubert Blonk

Tower Removal
Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction; Construction equipment--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam;
Demolition of a tower which carried the conveyor belt for aggregate across the Columbia River below the Grand Coulee Dam site.
Hubert Blonk

Fort Vancouver, W. T.
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Fort Vancouver (Wash.)
Drawing of Fort Vancouver which was the administrative headquarters and main supply depot for the Hudson's Bay Company's fur trading operations in the immense Columbia Department. Under the leadership of John McLoughlin, the fort became the center...
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

Fire at Grand Coulee, Washington.
Fire; Grand Coulee (Wash. : Coulee);Central business districts -- United States -- History.
Flames pour out of the side windows of Grand Coulee Post Office Station “A” during a fire which destroyed much of the downtown area along “B” Street.
Hubert Blonk

Fort Colville Monument
Historical marker commemorating Fort Colville, which had to be moved due to the site being flooded by Lake Roosevelt.
Hubert Blonk

Combine cutting grain in northeastern Oregon.
Harvesting -- Oregon; Farming -- Oregon; Combines (Agricultural machinery); Harvesting machinery
Horse-drawn combine in northeastern Oregon. Photo shows a team of twenty-four horses drawing the combine, which appears to have four men on it.
Otis Willard Freeman Photograph Collection

St. John's Cathedral, high altar
Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist (Spokane, Wash.); Church architecture -- Details; Church architecture -- Washington (State)
Interior of St. John's Cathedral in Spokane Washington. The view is facing east, showing the high altar, above which is the carved stone reredos and above that the trefoil (three-pointed) window. Also shown is the chancel, flanked by the choir...
Harold C. Whitehouse Ecclesiastical Architecture

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

Riparian understory dynamics and relationship to dams on the Elwha River, Washington
Riparian ecology--Washington (State)--Elwha River; Stream ecology--Washington (State)--Elwha River; Elwha River (Wash.)
Theses

Hot springs at source of Lou Lou fork, Bitter Root Mountains, looking west
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Springs; Bitterroot Range
Near the summit of the Bitter Root Mountains, "a hot spring with a temperature of 132 degrees, around which was a fine prairie camping ground." Plate LVII.
Pacific Railroad Survey Prints

Dry Falls
Geology -- Washington (State); Waterfalls; Volcanic rock; Canyons
Photo of Dry Falls, a dry cliff that stands 400 ft. high and 3.5 miles wide. Dry Falls is a feature of Grand Coulee Canyon, which is part of the channeled scablands of eastern Washington.
Otis Willard Freeman Photograph Collection

Art Class, Cheney State Normal School
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,...
EWU Student Life and Activities

Brink of the Potholes Falls
Geology -- Washington (State); Volcanic rock; Channels
Photograph of the edge of the dry falls which were filled during the ice age floods by water from Glacial Lake Missoula.
Otis Willard Freeman Photograph Collection

First National Bank of Cheney
Cheney (Wash.) -- History; Banks; Bicycles & tricycles; Buildings;
Photograph of the First National Bank of Cheney in Cheney, Washington. The bank is situated on the corner of First St. and Normal Avenue, (now College Avenue) . It was built by Daniel F. Percival in 1889 after a fire destroyed the previous building...
Historic Images of Cheney, WA

Allbaugh House Residents
Cheney State Normal School - Students; Lodging houses; Cheney State Normal School -- History
Photograph of the residents and house mother posing in front of the Allbaugh House, an off-campus rooming house in Cheney, Washington, which served students at the Cheney State Normal School (currently Eastern Washington University).
EWU Student Life and Activities

Fish Lake, Washington
Fish Lake, Washington; Lakes & ponds
Photograph showing the view from Fish Lake looking north-west, toward Cheney - Spokane road, which is visible on the opposite shore of the lake.
Communities of the Inland Northwest

Toppling a Tower
Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction.
Removal of one of the towers used to support the conveyor belt which delivered aggregate to the west side mix plant. The foundation level of Grand Coulee Dam is complete, and the river flows through diversion slots in the dam.
Hubert Blonk

Pier Removal.
Bridges; Piers; Columbia River -- History;
Structures which were to be inundated by the reservoir were removed before the lake started to fill. The photo appears to show the destruction of one of the piers which supported the Great Northern bridge across the Columbia at Marcus, Washington.
Hubert Blonk

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