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1 map: col., 27 x 36 cm.Plat map from the Whitman County city of Penawawa. Scale: 600'=1".Named after a nearby creek at Union Flat, the town of Penawawa lay twelve miles west of Almota. Its first permanent settler, Mr. Ed Johnson, arrived in 1871…

1 map: col., 38 x 26 cm.Plat map from the Whitman County cities of Rock Lake City and Lamont. Scale: 400'=1".The settlement at Rock Lake was platted on its southwest side in 1903 by Willis Anson Evans. Evans bought three acres of land, and in three…

1 map: col., 69 x 36 cm.Plat map from the Whitman County city of Colfax. Scale: 400'=1".The farming town of Colfax (located thirteen miles northwest of Pullman) was named in 1872 in honor of President Grant's Vice President, Mr. Schuyler Colfax, by…

1 map: col., 17 x 20 cm.Plat map from the Whitman County city of Texas City Scale: 400'=1".At one time the small community of Texas City was also known as Texas Ferry. Located on the Snake River, you can perhaps derive the town's economic interests…

1 map: col., 40 x 36 cm.Plat map from the Whitman County city of Tekoa. Scale: 400'=1". Tekoa's first settler, Mr. Frank P. Connell, erected a post office at his trading post in 1888. That same year, Mr. Daniel Traux platted forty acres…

1 map: col., 23 x 34 cm.Plat map from the Whitman County city of Palouse. Scale: 400'=1"The word Palouse stems from the name of native tribes in the area that were perhaps known as the Palus, Palost, Pallah, or Palusha people. When French trappers…

1 map: col., 35 x 14 cm.Plat map from the Whitman County cities of Palouse (Boone Park addition) and Willada or Lancaster. Scale: 400'=1" for Boone Park Addition and 300'=1" for Willada.In 1888-89, the Oregon Railway Extension Co. (which later became…

1 map: col., 39 x 27 cm.Plat maps from the Whitman County cities of Colton, Staley and Diamond. Colton scale 400'=1" Staley scale 400'=1"Diamond scale 400'=1"The town of Colton, eleven miles south of Pullman, began as a settlement in 1879. Mr.…

1 map: col., 46 x 40 cm. Plat map from the Whitman County city of Farmington.Scale 400'=1"In 1886, the Oregon and Washington Railway & Navigation Co. built track running from Portland into eastern Washington. The track ended at Farmington, named…

Portrait photograph of Major General Leslie Groves in full dress uniform after he was promoted to Major General in March of 1944.

The New Silks and Dresses is advertising the silk is now lower in price than at any period since the French Revolution, 1848. They are doing on sale on the coquette, this is a very pretty jacket that is made in the new Boucle Cloth, trimmed Chantilly…

This advertisement is about Samuel Brothers respectfully invite application for patterns of their new materials for the Present Season. These are forwarded post-free, and is together with the illustrated price-list, it also containing 250 engravings…

This advertisement is about Nubian Blacking gives a brilliant polish for a week through wet or dry weather. It applied with sponge attached to the cork. It does not injure the leather nor clothing. It also combines all the requirements for Harness in…

This is an advertisement for the oldest tricycle and largest cycle manufacturers in the world. They can help you fit it, and there have show rooms of the tricycles. You can find any type of tricycle and cycle there, because it is one of the world…

This advertisement for Eau De Suez have three kinds of distinguished by a yellow, green, and red silk thread, it attached to the bottles. That with the yellow stops instantly the most violent toothache. That with the green is invaluable to persons…

A man seeks revenge.

Rockets similar to this R-7 rocket on display in Moscow were used to launch early Russian satellites into orbit, including Sputnik.

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Image of music sheet

In this engraving of several microbes, one of the microbes was depicted with what looks like a human face on its surface. This image comes from the early days of microscopy and the human face is likely a figment of the scientist's imagination.

28 x 22 cm. handout, 1 page. The Washington State University Strike Steering Committee calls for a student boycott against all University stores and businesses in an attempt to end institutionalized racism at the college.

Print shows a bird's-eye view of the Andersonville Prison, with prisoner's tents, gallows for executions, and a stream for washing, surrounded by three rows of stockade fences and with artillery batteries of cannons at the corners; includes numbered…

10 maps on 1 sheet ; each 29 x 25 cm. or smaller., sheet 54 x 72Depths shown by soundingsContents: Tacoma, Washington -- Port Gamble -- Port Townsend -- Bellingham Bay -- Possession Sound -- Eagle Harbour [Eagle Harbor] -- Cape Flattery to Puget…

Photo of Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the executive order 9066

Photograph of students Hannah Hayano, Margaret Hiuga, and Hisako Takehara conducting a Girls League Representatives Hi-Y meeting in a Heart Mountain High School classroom, Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming.