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W.S.U. (then W.S.C.), in their first Rose Bowl appearance, defeated Brown by a score of 14 to 0.

Several individuals survey the damage wrought by a 1920 cyclone that touched down near College Farm, WSU building # 100.

A view the damage wrought by a 1920 cyclone that touched down near College Farm, WSU building # 100.

1 Map : 26 x 40 cm."The Main Highways are Shown by the Heavy Black Lines.""Dark green shaded area show Columbia River Basin Project which will reclaim 1,750,000 acres." See front cover and back of map:…

1 map : 26 x 40 cm. The unfolded front cover and verso of map. See map: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu150 This is a tourist brochure promoting Spokane and the surrounding area. As automobile travel became more and more…

(Collection of the New-York Historical Society, Neg. #ac03149)

1 map : hand col. ; 39 x 64 cmRelief shown by hachures and spot heightsShows locations of native American tribal groups and dated military routesPrime meridians: Greenwich and Washington, D.CPrime meridians: Greenwich and Washington, D.CScale ca.…

1 map: 28 x 46 cm. Captain Benjamin Bonneville, on leave from the U.S. Army, took a four year expedition, from 1832 to 1836, into the American west. They traveled parallel to the course of the Snake and the Columbia, and though they did reach…

1 map: col., 18 x 21 cm. Before the arrival to Washington State of the first irrigation projects handled by the U.S. Reclamation Service, the Northern Pacific Railroad and other railway companies funded private irrigation…

This map taken from a 1925 brochure illustrates the series of tunnels and dams designed to channel water from the Pend Oreille River to the Columbia Basin. By maintaining a path that moved water downhill, the Gravity Plan proposed to irrigate the…

This brochure details a tour provided by the Columbia Basin Irrigation League for members of the Congressional Committee on Reclamation and Irrigation. It features a train ride and meals along the path of the Gravity Plan, which was a proposed system…

3.5x5 print. A photograph of Makio (Mike) Hide in his army uniform. The photograph was taken in Macon, Georgia in July 1945. The uniform includes a hat and tie.

1 map: col., 34 x 29 cm."Population 174,768""Area, square Miles 94,560"George F. Cram, a Union soldier who fought in Sherman's Army during the Civil War, returned home in 1867 to Evanston, Illinois to begin a map and atlas company with his uncle,…

1 map : col., 34 x 29 cm.Population 75,116Area, square Miles 66,880George F. Cram, a Union soldier who fought in Sherman's Army during the Civil War, returned home in 1867 to Evanston, Illinois to begin a map and atlas company with his uncle, Rufus…

1 map : col. ; 25 x 31 cm.Relief shown by hachures.Scale ca. 1:2,250,000.

Francis Clalin, disguised as a man, served in the 44th Regiment, Missouri Artillery, Company I for 3 months and in the 13th Missouri Cavalry, Company A, for 19 months.

1 map; 39 x 72 cm. Scale 400 feet to 1 inch. Cheney was founded in 1880 and named Billings, after the president of the Northern Pacific Railway. Prior to that, it had been known as Depot Springs. When a Northern Pacific director, Benjamin P.…

Newspaper article repealing the prohibition of alcohol

1 map: 20 x 20 cm. Scale: 1 inch = 12 miles. The Coeur d'Alene area saw a gold and silver rush in 1883 and 1884, as thousands of prospectors descended on the area. This map comes from an 1885 brochure advertising the benefits of the Spokane Falls…

A man survives on an island.

This parasite has the face of a horse, the left-foot of a human, and the right foot of a bird. It was drawn by a Hanovarian artist in 1697.

1 map ; 48 x 55 cm., folded in cover 18 x 9 cm.Relief shown by hachuresShows modern day Grays Harbor CountyIncludes "View of Ocosta terminus of N.P.R.R."Scale 1:190,080. 1 in. = 3 miles

Photo of chief Crow Dog of the Lakota Indians

1 map: col., 22 x 19 cm.Scale: 1.1 in = 10000 ft.Area of third unit colored in red.Blue lines indicate main distributing canals; dashed blue lines indicate pipe lines; hachures indicate United Sates reservesMap No. 9967Modified from original map…

1 map; 27 x 40 cm. Scale: 1 inch = 40 ft. Bearings given as calculated Magnetic Bearings. Offsets are taken every 25 feet. Silver Lake was a small manmade lake which existed on the campus of Washington State College from the…

1 map : 26 x 43 cm.Scale: 1 in. = 400 ft.Inset: Section thru dam This is a very preliminary design map showing how a dam could be placed at Grand Coulee. Initial excavation for a dam there didn't begin until 1933, by which point several…

1 map ; negative, 21 x 32 cm. This was a preliminary map showing one particular plan for the irrigation of the Columbia Basin. As noted in the title, this map represented the pumping plan, whereby a dam would be constructed at Grand Coulee and…