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Indian pulls dip bag net out of water with salmon. Note net does not collapse.

Indian Fishing with dip bag net. Not rope around Indian.

Close-up view of dip bag net.

Indians making own nets

In September, when the run is on, Indians from many tribes fish on bank. By Concentrating their fishing during the months when the adult salmon are fighting their way up the river to spawn, the Indian fishermen are assured of large catches of…

Precarious Fishing Spot. Note cable car, falls, and platform.

Indians pulling in salmon with dip net. Note how net collapses.

Indians fishing from platforms at Celilo Falls. Supported by cables anchoring near the lips of narrow canyons where fishing is best, the wooden platforms are lowered down the canyon walls within easy reach of the roaring torrent of water.

Cable car transportation from shore to fishing islands.

"Day's End"- Old fish wheel revolved and caught fish- now outlawed.

Chief Tommy Thompson- Celilo Falls. Note braids wrapped in flannel.

Indian woman picking bones form dried, shredded salmon.

Indian boys enjoying themselves in cable car.

Indian woman near cable landing. Like many white women you know she had sons in the service-- three of them.

1 blueprint map: 50 x 46 cm.Scale: 1 inch = 500 feet."Note: Indicated speed of currant (8 to 9 miles per hour) is for both high and low water: Statement of river steamboat Captains."Inset: sketch of projected bridge paths, with elevations…

Illustration of General Butler subduing a mob in New Orleans 1862. Earning him a name by Southerners as "Beast Butler".

1 map : col. ; 71 x 53 cm. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Depths of harbors shown by soundings. "A valuable compendium of useful information and complete railway and navigation. Guide for travelers and settlers. "Shows railways in…

1 map : col ; 57 x 37 cm."Copyrighted 1902"Scanned from: Davis' new commercial encyclopedia : Washington, Oregon and Idaho, the Pacific Northwest. Seattle proper was originally settled in 1852 when a settlement on Alki Point during the previous…

1 map ; 20 x 13 cm.Scanned from: Nez Perce Joseph : an account of his ancestors, his lands, his confederates, his enemies, his murders, his war, his pursuit and capture by O. O. Howard. General Oliver Howard was the soldier in charge of the forces…

A Turkish bath at home. It cures diseases without medicine! The bath treats cases of Rheumatism, Neuralgia, colds, bronchitis, asthma, influenza, Typhoid, and other fevers. The description of the bath aids dates the advertisements because thermal…

1 view : col. ; 57 x 100 cmIdentifies points of interestIdentifies points of interestOriented with north to bottomOne of library's copies mounted on muslin1 view : col. ; 57 x 100 cm

1 map: hand col., 22 x 37 cm.

1 map ; 58 x 60 cm. Map of North America including Mexico, Central America, and the western Caribbean. Relief shown by hachures. Also shows locations of native American tribes. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington.…

1 map; 58 x 41 cm. Scale: 2000 Feet per 1 Inch Compiled from Official Notes Filed in the office of Charles H. Ballard, U.S. Dep. Min. Sur., and from Actual Field Surveys by Henry Carr, C.E., March, 1888. This map depicts this area in its heyday. …

1 photographic print; 8 x 10 inches. This is a photograph of the Washington (State College football team with Squirt, the dog who served as the team mascot.