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; 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.
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...
"Just below the outlet of Flathead Lake there is a series of rapids and falls, one of which, at the time, was fifteen feet high. The country to the west of the lake is a high rolling prairie. Salmon trout, three feet long, are caught in it,...
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...
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...
"The altitude of this butte, as determined by barometric measurement, is 281.8 feet above the level of the Shyenne (Cheyenne) River." Named for "an engagement between some half-breeds and Sioux, in which one of the former, by the...
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Lightning Lake (Mont.)
"Lightning Lake is a very beautiful sheet of water, so called from the fact that during Captain Pope's expedition, while encamped here, one of those storms so fearfully violent in this country occurred, during which one of his party was...
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Milk River (Mont.)
"The valley of the Milk River is wide and open, with a very heavy growth of cottonwood as far as the eye can reach, which is also to be found along the adjacent shores of the Missouri River." Plate XVIII.
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,...
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).
Cheney State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.); Football players
The Papooses were Cheney Normal's light weight football squad which played neighboring high schools: Front Row, L to R: Arnold Ochs, Anderson, Al Strom, George Werner, Carl Gauksheim, Gordon Rutherford, Richard Wasmund; Standing: Student Coach Carl...
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.
Eastern Washington University -- Buildings; Criminal investigations;
A photograph of the Washington State Crime Lab which is 32,000 square feet and is located on the Eastern Washington University campus. The crime lab was built in 2006 and houses a full staff of 30 forensic scientists.
Cheney Junior High School building, which was briefly used for some Cheney State Normal School classes following the destruction of the school by fire.
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...