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James Thornton Chinnock (1882 - ) was an attorney in Grants Pass, Oregon. The collection (1920-1928) contains case files relating to water rights cases in Josephine County, Oregon.; Case files in the collection regard the following: Beaver...
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Warren H. Marple's thirty year career with the Bonneville
Power Administration of Oregon began in 1939. The collection includes correspondence,
subject files, addresses and articles, Bonneville Power Administration files,...
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The collection consists of one album of the construction of Bonneville Dam, 1934-1936. Images by R.W. Oliver and Bichel; most unsigned. Shows housing, equipment, excavation, construction, spillways. Some workers are named.; Biographical/Historical...
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This collection consists primarily of photographs (black and white prints) documenting the construction of the Dworshak Dam on the North Clearwater River, Idaho.; This collection consists primarily of photographs (black and white prints)...
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Correspondence, business records, drawings, maps, and photographs of the corporate firms which established Clarkston; Organizational History:; The Lewiston-Clarkston Improvement Company (LCIC), the third and best-known corporate name of one of the...
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Contains 5 page letter summarizing the findings of the proposal, photographs of the lower Snake river region, including one panoramic photograph, and a detailed blueprint (scale 1:400) of the profile and boring record at the proposed dam site.;...
2024-04-27
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Correspondence, diplomas, certificates, a family tree, and other items, primarily related to David Lynde Huntington (1870-1929) and his wife, Helen Longacre Huntington. Includes a typescript entitled "Hydro-electric Power and Western Agriculture."...
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Arranged alphabetically by county, then by town or natural feature name. Author unidentified, but possibly J. Kuster, Jr., of Eagle, Idaho.; Gift; F. B. Laney; 1942.; Arranged alphabetically by county, then by town or natural feature name. Author...
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This collection consists of a single item, Underground Water of the Upper Spokane River Valley, a paper by Washington State College student Reuben Newcomb.; Reuben Clair Newcomb (1909-1998) earned a bachelor's degree in Geology from the State...
2024-04-27
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Articles, brochures and other printed materials related to the public power controversy in Washington State.; Washington Water Power Company, an investor-owned electric utility company based in Spokane, WA, was founded 1889. In addition to its...
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Collection consists of 196 slides depicting irrigation, schools and towns in the Columbia Basin area, documenting the growth of the school districts in conjunction with irrigation, c. 1952 - 1958.; Old lists of labeled slides, organization of the...
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Incorporated in 1890, the Fairhaven City
Water and Power Company supplied water and power to Fairhaven, using Lake
Padden as its source. In municipal elections held in December 1925, the city
voted to buy out the company. This...
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The collection includes the records of the Bellingham
chapter of the League of Women Voters. Records concern membership, activities,
elections, and publications by both the local and national offices.; The League of Women...
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The collection contains photographs
taken by A.F. Harms for the Soil Conservation Service in the Skagit and
Snohomish Soil Conservation Districts in Washington State. Photos depict
irrigation implementation, ditch construction,...
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The collection consists of technical
reports relating to local freshwater issues that were published by the
Institute for Freshwater Studies at Western Washington State College (now
Western Washington University).; The collection...
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Materials related to the opening of the Dalles-Celilo Canal; The collection consists of the front page of the Dalles Daily Chronicle describing the opening of the new canal and the celebrations associated with it.
2024-04-27
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This collection contains the record of
the formation and subsequent organizational and lobbying efforts of the Inland
Empire Waterways Association, later renamed the Pacific Northwest Waterways
Association.; Historical Note; In 1934...
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The Western Land and Irrigation Company Report contains a bound typewritten report, "The Complete Report upon the Properties, Business and Personnel of the Western Land and Irrigation Co. of Pendleton, Umatilla Co., Oregon" dated 1908. This report...
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The Baker Family Collection, which dates from 1850 to 1970, contains the personal papers and business records of the Baker family of Walla Walla, Washington, from the materials of Dorsey Syng to those of his sons.; This history was originally...
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The Flaming Gorge Bureau of Reclamation video (1963) consists of a VHS dub of a film created by the United States Bureau of Reclamation celebrating the completion of Flaming Gorge Dam, located about 10 miles west of the current town of Dutch John,...
1963-04-27
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The Williams family ranch home movies is a set of twenty films from the early 1960s. It depicts the land of the Williams family ranch in Flaming Gorge before the Flaming Gorge reservoir was created, flooding the land. It also depicts family...
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The Green River Archives video collection (circa 1969) consists of a film produced by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Geological Survey on John Wesley Powell. The film describes Powell's first expedition down the Grand Canyon on the Green...
1969-04-27
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The Sumner G. Margetts and Company records (1949-1987) contain documents, books, catalogues, job files, financial records, drawings, and maps pertaining to the Utah Engineering firm that existed throughout the 20th century. Margetts was a civil...
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The William R. Halliday papers (1960) contain correspondence regarding the geological features of the Glen Canyon reservoir area. Included are letters between Senator Henry Jackson and Fred G. Aandhal (Secretary of the Interior), Aandhal and John...
1960-04-27
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The William E. Rice papers (1946) contain the Hite booklet, one of 200 souvenir copies commemorating the dedication ceremony of a ferry crossing for the Colorado River at Hite, Utah.; The William E. Rice papers (1946) contain the Hite booklet, or...
2024-04-27
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