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Spokane -- Washington Water Power Company (#01)
"Washington Water Power temporary headquarters after the Spokane fire of 1889. The great fire struck the city's downtown in early August, just five months after WWP was created. Using any wire that would carry 10 amps - including barbed ware -…
Spokane -- Washington Water Power Company (#02)
"WWP's Monroe Street hydroelectric plant under construction in 1889. This facility, which has served five generations of Inland Northwest customers, is currently being upgraded- a renovation that includes replacement of the five old turbine-…
Spokane -- Washington Water Power Company (#03)
"WWP put an appliance store on wheels to take the most up-to-date modern electric conveniences to housesholds around the Inland Northwest. WWP would be among the leaders in promoting and selling electric ranges and water heating."
Spokane -- Washington Water Power Company (#04)
"WWP's Long Lake Dam is still an impressive structure more than 75 years after its construction. The project which would have spillways 170 feet high- the highest in the world at the time- and the largest turbines then in opperation, was a mammoth…
Spokane -- Washington Water Power Company (#05)
"Cabinet Gorge Dam, constructed on a spectacular canyon on the Clark Fork River in Idaho, is the second largest of WWP's nine hydro electric facilities. Working 24 hours a day, workers drove the two 1,000-foot diversion tunnels and erected the coffer…
Spokane -- Washington Water Power Company (#11)
"Culligan building on right. Monroe bridge and railroad bridge"
Spokane -- Washington Water Power Company (#15)
"Northern Pacific and Monroe Street Bridge looking downstream"
Spokane -- Washington Water Power Company (#17)
"Headgate house, Post Street Building. Montgomery Wards"
Spokane -- Washington Water Power Company (#18)
"Culligan soft water building on north bank of river"
Spokane -- Washington Water Power Company (#23)
"Looking down stream to power house and high railroad bridge."
Spokane -- Water Wagon (#01)
"Carl Waldemar Nielsen (aka Nelson) with his water wagon. He came to the United States from Denmark in 1905. In 1907 he is shown living at E. 725 Sprague Avenue and in 1908 he is at 118 Division."
Spokane -- Winter Sports (#03)
"Sleighing party at 7th and Howard Streets, Winter 1888-1889 or 1889-90."
Spokane -- Winter Sports (#07)
"Sleighing party at 7th and Howard Streets, Winter 1888-1889 or 1889-90."
Spokane -- Winter Sports (#08)
"Sleighing party at 7th and Howard Streets, Winter 1888-1889 or 1889-90."
Spokane --Schools -- South Central (Folder 1, #10)
South Central High School as it appeared at the time of its destruction by fire in 1910. The school began in 1891 as Spokane High School. The name changed to South Central in 1908 and it burned down in 1910.
Spokane --Schools --South Central (Folder 1, #22)
A view of South Central High School (which burned in 1910) as seen from the northwest corner of Fourth and Stevens. South Central was located on the site of the present Lewis and Clark High School.
Spokane --Schools --South Central (Folder 1, #24)
View of South Central High School looking southeast as building burns.
Spokane --Schools --South Central (Folder 1, #26)
South Central High School after it burned down in 1910.
