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1 map: col., 26 x 37 cm. Scale 25 miles to 1 inch.This forms the center pages from a 46 page promotional brochure issued by the Spokane Chamber of Commerce. Also in brochure: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu188 Also in…

Photograph of an intramural basketball team from Washington State College called the Independents. During the 1944-1945 school year, the team compiled a record of 5-1. The team was comprised mainly of Japanese Americans. The team consisted of Mac…

Chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, December 1931 to January 1947, then chairman of the Armed Services Committee.

May 5, 1938, Pierce County officials signed a deed passing the title of Tacoma Field, 900 acres of land with buildings, to the War Department to be used as part of a giant airbase to defend the Pacific Northwest.

This advertisement focuses on a rifle that is made by G.E.Lewis. The rifles selling points are its "Treble Grip", "Lowest Trajectory", "Great Accuracy" and being the "Gun of the period".

An advert in The Illustrated London News that offers the latest grand piano created by The Orchestrelle Company. This new grand piano offers the same artistic lines of an ordinary grand piano, but offers an unbelievable sound that every musician…

The Godfather movie poster

Looking south on Grand Street from across the Palouse River.

1 map: 15 x 22 cm. Scale: 1 inch = 7 miles. A handwritten note by the author is in red pencil on the left. W.C. Brown was a second Lieutenant in the U.S. Cavalry during the Indian Wars of the late 1870s. These maps come from a book by him,…

This company claims their product will entail a delightful result with the main scents being Acacia, Violet, and Lilac. It is a must-have for every women basically available anywhere. There is a women spraying the man with the perfume which is…

Newspaper article repealing the prohibition of alcohol

This ad is from 1885 and is for the “Easy To Use Lawn Mower.” Although the ad is small, there is an illustration to show the reader what exactly the lawn mower looks like. The illustration also helps the ad stand out from everything all of the…

Print shows an archway of the nine steps of a drunkard's progress, beginning with a man in fancy dress having "a glass with a friend" and then his gradual decline in society with poverty & disease, criminal activity, becoming a bum, and his eventual…

Print showing "The new year - how they began" and "The old year - how they came out" a series of vignettes depicting a man and a woman, each taking their first drink, until they succumb to alcoholism. The central panel details a young man taking…

Illustration shows Woodrow Wilson as a doctor holding aloft a bottle of "Tariff Subsidy Morphine" among a group of men at the "Democratic Sanitarium - Morphine and other Drug Habits Cured"; on a table are bottles of "High Protection Cocaine, High…

The Godfather

1 map : col. ; 45 x 31 cm. or smallerRelief shown by contours and spot heightsTitle supplied by catalogerSet includes various editions"Surveyed in 1929-1930""Contour interval 50 feet. Datum is mean sea level.""Edition of 1934"Highway information…

A man seeks revenge.

1 map ; 26 x 69 cm.Relief shown by hachuresSymbols indicate the location of canneries, fish traps, and fish wheels. Also shows tributaries, islands, cities, locks, points, mountain ranges, railroads, and lighthouses"S Ex 123 50 1."Indexed in: CIS US…

Photograph of the Bruins, the Boys Intramural Basketball Class E Champions, posing with a basketball outside of Heart Mountain High School for the yearbook, first row: Toshio Doi, John Murata, William Uiye; second row: Tak Okamoto, Earl Santo, Tom…

A photograph of a group of students, four women and two men, walking on the sidewalk in front of the old Post Office. The Students Book Corporation (Bookie) is visible the background. The Students Book Corporation (Bookie) was erected in 1923 at…

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Army setting up telegraph wire

1 watercolor view: col., 28 x 35 cm. Oregon City was first settled in 1829. Dr. John McLoughlin is generally credited as the town's founding father, having constructed an early lumber mill there. Oregon City was an early capitol of the…

The members of the United States Supreme Court in 1896-1897. Under Chief Justice Melville Fuller, the Court established the separate but equal rule following the pivotal Plessy v Ferguson Case.