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Spokane -- Inventions (#01)
Gale Power Sled. Trial speed tryouts at Newman Lake, WA. Covered 1 1/2 miles at 1 1/4 seconds. Invented by J. S. MacGregor, Spokane.
Spokane -- Japanese-Americans (#01)
"The Japanese Mission in the early twenties at 514 and 512 West Third, the duplexes built for rental property by Judge Bettis. His original home was to the west of this, between the church and the mission, vacated by his family after the 1893 crash."…
Spokane -- Liberty Bell tour (#01)
The Liberty Bell passed through Spokane and was viewed by thousands of people at the old Union Station. Newspaper accounts tell of children strewing flowers on it.
Spokane -- Liberty Bell tour (#06)
The Liberty Bell passed through Spokane and was viewed by thousands of people at the old Union Station. Newspaper accounts tell of children strewing flowers on it.
Spokane -- Libraries -- SPL -- Carnegie Library -- Exterior Views (#01)
Car in the snow in front of the Carnegie Library in Spokane.
Spokane -- Libraries -- SPL -- Carnegie Library -- Exterior Views (#02)
Carnegie Library in the 1950s?
Spokane -- Libraries -- SPL -- Carnegie Library -- Exterior Views (#03)
Undated photograph of the entrance to the Carnegie Library in Spokane
Spokane -- Libraries -- SPL -- Carnegie Library -- Exterior Views (#06)
Spokane Mayor L. F. Boyd presided over ceremonies when the cornerstone was loaid for Spokane's new library at 10. South Cedar, September 12, 1904.
Spokane -- Libraries -- SPL -- Carnegie Library -- Exterior Views (#07)
Exterior view of the Main Library
Spokane -- Libraries -- SPL -- Carnegie Library -- Exterior Views (#09)
Undated photo of the Carnegie Library, 1920s?
Spokane -- Libraries -- SPL -- Carnegie Library -- Exterior Views (#10)
"The building is not quite completed as evidenced by the work still being done on the front steps and the signs in the windows to indicate that the glass has just been installed. One can almost see into the building and it appears empty."
Spokane -- Libraries -- SPL -- Carnegie Library -- Exterior Views (#11)
Exterior of the main Spokane Public Library building
Spokane -- Libraries -- SPL -- Carnegie Library -- Exterior Views (#13)
Carnegie Library in the 1950s?
Spokane -- Libraries -- SPL -- Carnegie Library -- Exterior Views (#20)
Main library with new annex at the rear
Spokane -- Libraries -- SPL -- Carnegie Library -- Exterior Views (#40)
"Construction workers take a breather on the site of Spokane's new library building, located at S. 10 Cedar. Funds for the construction, which began in 1904, were donated by library philanthropist Andrew Carnegie."
Spokane -- Libraries -- SPL -- Carnegie Library -- Interior Views (#07)
"Order and cataloging room."
Spokane -- Libraries -- SPL -- Carnegie Library -- Interior Views (#09)
Men reading in the Carnegie library
Spokane -- Libraries -- SPL -- Carnegie Library -- Interior Views (#10)
Children's room in the Carnegie Library
Spokane -- Libraries -- SPL -- Carnegie Library -- Interior Views (#12)
George Fuller at his desk in the Carnegie Library
Spokane -- Libraries -- SPL -- Carnegie Library -- Interior Views (#13)
Young man at work in a processing room at the library
Spokane -- Libraries -- SPL -- Carnegie Library -- Interior Views (#14)
"Spring 1926, Children's Department."
Spokane -- Libraries -- SPL -- Carnegie Library -- Interior Views (#16)
"Children's Room. Mrs. Thelma Back - Center front."
Spokane -- Libraries -- SPL -- Carnegie Library -- Interior Views (#17)
"Taken in August 1911. Miss Ora L. Maxwell and Miss Rhea Buchanan. Miss Maxwell entered the employ of the library at this time." "Librarian's office with catalog office in foreground."
Spokane -- Libraries -- SPL -- Carnegie Library -- Interior Views (#20)
"Book Week 1948." "Hutton Kindergarten"
Spokane -- Libraries -- SPL -- Carnegie Library -- Interior Views (#31)
Women at work in the library, undated
Spokane -- Libraries -- SPL -- Carnegie Library -- Interior Views (#35)
"Reference Department. Miss Agnes Cappock, ca. March 1963."
Spokane -- Libraries -- SPL -- Carnegie Library -- Interior Views (#39)
"Fine Arts room of Reference Department, ca. March 1963."