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The largest flag in the world, carried in an Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition parade in Seattle, accompanied by 350 cadets. The flag flew that summer at the exposition atop a flagpole that was 182 feet in length- 170 feet above the ground and 12 feet…

Located on the south side of Main St., between Pine and

Paradise Streets.

Date taken from postcard. Looking west-northwest from

Pioneer Hill just north of Spring Street. The spired

building on the hill in the distance dead center is the high

school (now Gladish Community Center).

Looking south-west at Old City Hall and the Burgan Emerson Store from across the Palouse River. The intersection street between the two is Olsen, and Alder (now Kamiaken) runs along the nearer side of both. To the far right is the Sacred Heart…

Looking west from upstream across the Palouse River at the


Alder (Kamiaken) St. Bridge, which has been pushed


downstream and south. Old City Hall is on the left with the


Palm Cafe (also swept away in the flood) in the center.

Burgan Emerson store at left, City Hall in center. This picture looks south on Alder (now Kamiaken). At the far right is the location where The Palm Cafe stood before being carried downstream by the flood-waters.

The day after the March 1st flood, with waters beginning to


recede. Looking west down the Palouse River towards old


City Hall (left) and the Alton Hotel (right).

Looking east up the Palouse towards the Alder (Kamiaken) St.

bridge.

Looking west from near the Alder (Kamiaken) St. bridge at

the Palm Cafe, which the floodwaters had rotated 90 degrees

counterclockwise and moved a little downstream from its old

position next to City Hall.

Looking south east on Main St. Debris left by the flood in


front of the Pullman Implement Company store. The Pullman


Implement Company was located on Main St. between Pine and


Paradise.

Looking southeast towards Pioneer Hill above Spring Street


from across the Palouse River from downtown, on the south end


of Campus Hill.

Looking west up Main St. from somewhere between Pine and

Spring Streets.

Looking southeast towards the Corner Drug Store, which was

located at the corner of Main St. and High St.

Looking east on Main St. from near High St.

Flood waters of the South Palouse River receding from Main

Street Pullman during the flood of 1910. Picture

taken looking NE from near the IOOF (International Order of

Old Fellows) Building.

Looking east on Main St. from near High St.

Looking at the Burgan Emerson Mercantile, located on the





northwest corner of the intersection of Main St. and Alder





St. (now Kamiaken).

Looking west on Main Street from the corner of Alder (now Kamiaken) and Main with the Burgan Emerson Mercantile on the right.

Looking west on Main Street, from between Pine and Alder

(now Kamiaken) Streets. Taken at about 320 East Main.

Looking west on Main Street.

Damages to the Star Bottling Works

(left) and a furniture warehouse (right) around 470 East

Main Street. (Present location of the

Laurel Tree Flower Shop). Caskets from the furniture

warehouse went floating down …

This Jewelry Store was located on the north side of Main

St., just a couple shops east of Alder (now Kamiaken).