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Washington State vs Southern California At Pullman Oct. 11, 1930- Score W.S.C 7 - U.S.C. 6

This portrait of Osmar Waller was taken when Waller was Vice-President of Washington State College. Waller taught mathematics and civil engineering at WSC and was Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Waller was also a proponent of the Gravity…

1 map : hand col. ; 25 x 31 cm.Relief shown by hachuresShows locations of native American tribal groupsEntered according to act of Congress in the year 1833 by Illman & Pilbrow in the Clerk's office of the District Court for the Southern District of…

1 map; 43 x 57 cm. Maximum speed limit for Washington 40 miles per hour.

1 map : col., 28 x 54 cm. The map provides a bird's-eye view of existing dam projects, federal projects under construction, authorized federal projects, recommended federal projects, and non-federal damming projects under way. Information is also…

1 map: 42 x 39 cm. Scale: 2 inches = 45 miles. 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…

1 map: 43 x 41 cm. Scale: 1 inch = 50 miles. 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,…

1 map : col., 16 x 42 cm.Scale: 1 inch = 80 milesCounty Towns indicated by circled points, Railroads indicated by red lines Between November 2nd and November 11th, 1889, four new states were added to the United States. Dakota had originally…

Oil heating stoves with no smoke, no smell, no glass chimney, and great heat from little oil. It has an improved burner with a removable oil fount and automatic indicator. There is a printed image of the burner with prices shown to help sales.

This title page is from a pamphlet published in 1671 that describes how to create an elixir that promises long life and claims to have a "restoring nature even at the point of death...effectively removing away the seeds of all diseases."

This image shows the combined efforts of Caucasian and Chinese workers. The sifting operation that they are performing in this picture is called a sluicing operation. This picture is noted to be one of the earliest photos of Chinese mine workers. By…

The Songbook showcases the early depiction of a minstrel show character, Jim Crow. It wasn't until the late 1800s that the expression "Jim Crow" was used to describe the laws and customs aimed at segregating society, restricting social contact and…

1 map : col. ; 29 x 36 cm., on sheet 37 x 44 cm.Relief shown by hachures and spot heightsEntered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1853 by J.H. Colton & Co. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern…

1 map : hand col. ; 67 x 97 cm. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Also shows locations of native tribes. Cover title: Colton's map of the states & territories from the Mississippi River to the Pacific…

Tobacco that smells good when you smoke it. Three Nuns Tobacco comes in 1oz packets and 2oz and 1/4 lb tins. They claim that there are none nicer. Ink print of man smoking Three Nuns tobacco and woman telling him it smells nice.

Field hospital at Savage Station, Virginia. This was taken in 1862, and shows how disorganized early hospitals were. We can see how easy it was for disease to spread.

This is a cartoon that represents the emotions the public felt after the failed attempt to impeach President Andrew Johnson. President Johnson is compared to an old rotting horse whose foul stench exudes the Radical Republicans failed attempt to…

1 map: hand col., 35 x 46 cmMap publisher Alvin Jewitt Johnson purchased steel plate engravings and copyrights from mapmaker J.H. Colton sometime around 1859. To conserve the plates, Johnson transferred the information from steel to lithographic…