Browse Items (74 total)

  • Collection: Spokane Industry

Edison Electric Company

Unidentified employees of Edison Electric in Spokane.

Hedlund Lumber Company workers.

Hedlund Lumber Company workers. Man in front, 3rd from left, is Robert Gawn Lambier. Shingle mill.

Spokane -- Breweries (#02)

The Schade Bottling Works, part of the Schade Brewery on Trent Ave. Horse teams and drivers are posed with kegs. Date unknown.

Spokane -- Breweries (#03)

The main building of the Schade Brewery on Trent Ave. Date unknown. Railroad tracks are in the foreground. Date unknown.

Spokane -- Breweries (#04)

The staff of the Schade Brewery poses in front of keg barrels. Bernhardt Schade is posed in the front row on a keg. In the third row, fourth from left is Henry Mraz, bookkeeper and student at Gonzaga. Wenzel Mraz, the brewmaster, is to his left. …

Spokane -- Breweries (#05)

An interior view of the main Schade Brewery building showing part of the brewing machinery around the turn of the century.

Spokane -- Breweries (#06)

Exterior shot showing the Schade Brewery on Trent.

Spokane -- Breweries (#12)

Bernhardt Schade drinking beer with his father, cousin and brother-in-law in his office at the Schade Brewery. From left to right - C. Julius Schade (father), P.G. Bernhardt Schade, A.L. Frederick Schade (cousin and future legislator from the 6th…

Spokane -- Breweries (#13)

Spokane Brewing Co. brewery and warehouse (later Sicks Rainier Brewery). Spokane County courthouse is in the distance and the Spokane River and powerhouse is in the foreground. Date unknown.

Spokane -- Electric power plants (#01)

Power plant on the river.

Spokane -- Electric power plants (#02)

View of the power house on the river.

Spokane -- Electric power plants (#04)

Electric power plant on the middle falls. Copy print.

Spokane -- Electric power plants (#06)

Long Lake power plant under construction

Spokane -- Electric power plants (#08)

Looking upriver. Interurban depot on landfill (copy print).

Spokane -- Electric power plants (#09)

"Old generating plant at middle falls. From original by C. A. Cook, Tacoma."

Spokane -- Electric power plants (#10)

Initial construction of old Monroe Street Bridge, 1891. (Copy print)

Spokane -- Electric power plants (#13)

Little falls power plant

Spokane -- Electric power plants (#14)

"Middle falls later 1880s"

Spokane -- Electric power plants (#15)

"Nine Mile power house and dam on Spokane River, Wash."

Spokane -- Electric power plants (#16)

"Middle Falls from old Howard Street Bridge."

Spokane -- Electric power plants (#17)

Washington Water Power Company plant on the Spokane River.

Spokane -- Electric power plants (#18)

"Old electric plant beneath Monroe Street Bridge"

Spokane -- Electric power plants (#22)

"Middle falls after Crystal Plant was built and before demolition of old power plant"

Spokane -- Electric power plants (#24)

"Spokane Falls. First power station of the Washington Water Power Company about 1878." (Copy print)

Spokane -- Electric power plants (#27)

Man standing inside a large pipe at Long Lake Dam.

Spokane -- Electric power plants (#29)

"Middle Falls. Spokane River. Old generating plant."

Spokane -- Electric power plants (#37)

"Original power plant as viewed from the northwest."

Spokane -- Electric power plants (#39)

"Little Falls power station, Spokane River, near Spokane. 32,800 hp. the W.W.P. Co."

Spokane -- Flour Mills (#01)

The Echo Mill was the second flour mill constructed on the Spokane River at the site of Spokane Falls. S.G. Havermale and George Davis built it in 1881. The original electric power plant is at the lower left.

Spokane -- Flour Mills (#02)

The old C&C Spokane Flour mill before renovation and redevelopment taken during the summer of 1973.

Spokane -- Flour Mills (#04)

The C&C mill on Post St. and the lower falls. Date unknown.

Spokane -- Flour Mills (#06)

A view of the falls and the C&C Flour Mills on Post Street taken in 1901.

Spokane -- Flour Mills (#15)

C&C Milling Company mill and lower falls. Date unknown.

Spokane -- Flour Mills (#16)

View of the front of C and C Milling Company.

Spokane -- Furniture and Cabinet Shop (#01)

During the Great Depression, building contractor Wallfred Charles "Jack" Peelgren at work in his furniture and cabinet shop. Taken in 1935.

Spokane -- Industries -- Brown Metal Works (#01)

Thoburn and William Brown with their Metalark II. Taking over their metal company from their father, they manufactured airplanes during the 1930s. Taken c. 1933.

Spokane -- Industries -- Brown Metal Works (#03)

Between 1932 and 1940, Brown Metal Works built and delivered aluminum body, streamlined buses with rear motors. Adults and children pose in front of a completed bus.