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Davidson's Views of the Pacific Northwest
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Photographs: Davidson's Views of the Pacific Northwest
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A series of 27 photographs of scenes along the Northern Pacific Railroad's Pend d'Oreille Division and Clark's Fork Division in Oregon, as well as scenes on the lines of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Co. along the Columbia River. Included are views of the workers along the line, a survey team, the camp tents holding the hospital, camp mess tents, a druggist, and a blacksmith shop. The card photographs are boudoir size, 8.25 x 5 inches, and "Davidson's Views of the Pacific Northwest" is printed on the verso of the mounts. Photographs: Group portrait of men, women, and a child; men with surveying equipment in group portrait; hospital tent with injured men on cots; mess hall tents with tin plates and coffee pitchers displayed; men and women in front of a druggist's tent with medicinal bottles and jars on shelves inside; "Blacksmith Shop of Construction Department, Clark's Fork Division, N.P.R.R."; "No. 26. Block House, Upper Cascades, Columbia River"; "No. 49 Multnomah Falls, Columbia River"; "No. 50 Castle Rock, Columbia River"; "No. 71 View from Block House"; "No. 73 Hallett's Hades--O.R. & N. Co."; "No. 77 Upper Cascades, Columbia River, from Espy's Painting"; "No. 83 Bird's eye view of Fort Coeur d'Alene and the lake, Idaho"; "No. 87 Clark's Fork Crossing, three miles above its mouth, N.P.R.R."; "No. 88 North Cabinet, N.P.R.R."; "No. 89 South Cabinet, N.P.R.R."; "No. 90 Big Rock Cut, one mile above Cabinet, N.P.R.R."; "No. 91 View from Cabinet Rapids down Clark's Fork, Columbia River"; "No. 92 View at lower end of Cabinet Rapids, Clark's Fork"; "No. 93 Cabinet Gorge, Clark's River, looking upstream"; "No. 94 Cabinet Gorge, Clark's River, looking downstream"; "No. 95 Looking out upstream from Cabinet Gorge"; "No. 96 Head of Cabinet Rapids"; "No. 97 Big Grade, N.P.R.R. at head of Cabinet Rapids"; "No. 98 Elk Creek Camp on N.P.R.R."; "No. 99 Grading on Big Bluff, three miles above Heron's Rapids, Clark's Fork"; view of a surveyor and stream.
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Kern River Project; Kings River
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Kings River Powerhouse No. 1 and cottages, headworks, Lucas Creek Flume, Cow Creek flume, Borel Powerhouse with 5 penstocks, Isabella (1907); Kings River No. 1 Water Appropriation Notice, Kings River No. 2 - Camp near Mill Creek, posted notice, material storage, warehouse at Tunnel 9; Kings River No. 3 - South Fork Gorge and Intake site, Crown Valley, Little Brush Creek, construction road, Water Appropriation Notice; Kings River No. 4 - Tehachapi Basin, lumber yards, water appropriation notice at intake site, P.D. Plant and spillway at mouth of Kern Canyon.
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"River Course - Bridges (R of R Reel I Part One Master Pix Heads)": 1945?, 1947, 1948, & 1950? Title, "So Granma Rides the Rapids of the Grand Canyon: - map - San Francisco - snowy mountains - Green River from Flaming Gorge to Confluence - Colorado River from Confluence to Lake Mead - cable - Grand Canyon views - aerial views - volcanic eruptions - desert and canyon views - Hoover Dam - rapids - map - bridges - arches. [entries: San Francisco; "So Granma Rides the Rapids of the Grand Canyon"; Green River; Flaming Gorge; Confluence of Green and Grand rivers; Colorado River; Cataract Canyon; Lake Mead; Grand Canyon; aerial views; volcanoes; Hoover Dam; arches; bridges; cable cars; Golden Gate Bridge; San Rafael Bridge?; Francis P. Farquhar?; Nevills Expedition; "Wen"; Green River; Ashley Falls?; Split Mountain; Shiprock [or Echo?]; Dinosaur National Monument; Green River, Utah?; Glen Canyon?; Hole in the Rock; Dock Marston; Navajo Mountain?; Vermillion Cliffs; Lees Ferry; Marble Canyon; Vaseys Paradise?; cable across Marble Canyon; dam camp; bridge; Angels Wing; Phantom Ranch; Inner Granite Gorge; rapids; Norm Nevills; motorboats; Little Colorado River?; church; cascade; waterfall; lava flows; Hawaii; Joseph Desloge; Diamond Peak?; high tension electric transmission lines; hand cable; foot bridge; bridge at Moab?; Navajo Bridge; Bright Angel Bridge; Bright Angel or Kaibab trail; ruins of cage cable; arches (various, identify); natural bridges (various, identify); Rainbow Bridge; airplane]
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Kern River Project
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Kern River No. 1, Borel Powerhouse, Kern River No. 3 - KR 1, KR 2, & KR 3, Kings River Power Co., Kings River - Kern River PH #1 & cottages, headworks, Lucac Creek Flume, Cow Creek flume, forebay weir to spillway; Borel Powerhouse with 5 penstocks, Isabella (1907); Kings River #1 Water Appropriation Notice, Kings River #2 - Camp near Mill Creek, posted notice, material storage, warehouse at Tunnel 9; Kings River #3 - South Fork Gorge & Intake site, Crown Valley, Little Brush Creek, construction road, Water Appropriation Notice; Kings River #4 - Tehacipi Basin, lumber yards, water appropriation notice at intake site, P.D. Plant and spillway at mouth of Kern Canyon.
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Views of Trail, British Columbia
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A collection of seven cabinet card photographs of the town of Trail on the Columbia River in British Columbia. Includes views of Trail Creek Landing, an elevated view of the town, street scenes with storefronts including signs for the Arlington Hotel and Kaake & Williams, a sternwheeler steamboat unloading passengers, and the smelter at Trail Creek Landing. Also included is a photographic postcard of the Light House, Pelee Island, Canada, dated 1910.
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