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Northwest -- Idaho -- Coeur d'Alene (#07)
"Docks on Coeur d'Alene. Train from Spokane met Coeur d' Alene lake steamer at docks."
Northwest -- Idaho -- Wallace (#18)
"View of the city during the days of rioting in 1892 showing the 'Bull pen' and the camps of the soldiers."
Northwest -- Idaho -- Wallace (#12)
"General view of the town prior to the great fire of July 27, 1890."
Northwest -- Idaho -- Wallace (#11)
"View showing the smoking ruins of the town after the great fire of July 27, 1890."
Washington -- Kettle Falls (#17)
"Varying scenes of the notable Kettle Falls of the Columbia River. White settlement and the fur trade began here in 1811 while today the falls have become the scene of one of the greatest power developments in the Pacific Northwest."
Washington -- Kettle Falls (#19)
"Later this area was flooded by Coulee Dam, making Lake Roosevelt. An Indian burial ground had to be excavated."
Washington -- Kettle Falls (#43)
"Dismantling school at Kettle Falls to clear for lake by Coulee Dam." "E.T. Becher Collection."
Northwest -- Mines and Mineral Resources (#02)
View of mine tunnel showing two miners operating an air hoist and ore car.
Northwest -- Mines and Mineral Resources (#04)
Miners using hydraulic hoses remove surface rock and dirt from an evergreen covered hillside. Date unknown.
Northwest -- Mines and mineral resources -- Alaska (#05)
"We are pulling an electric cable from the mill to the mine. The building on the lower left is the top of the mill where the tram buckets dump." Likely Independence Mine near Palmer and Wasilla, Alaska in the Willow Creek mining district. Taken…
Northwest -- Mines and mineral resources -- Alaska (#02)
"Taken in the stope which adjoins mine. These were taken with a photoflash outfit with a Kodak Recomars [sic] '33.'" Miners pose in the interior of a mine. Likely Independence Mine near Palmer and Wasilla, Alaska in the Willow Creek mining district.…
Northwest -- Mines and mineral resources -- Alaska (#03)
"This is looking up from the mill to the mine portal and head house. The L shaped thing coming down from the head house is a snowshed through which we walk to work." Likely Independence Mine near Palmer and Wasilla, Alaska in the Willow Creek mining…
Northwest -- Mines and mineral resources -- Alaska (#04)
Miners near a spool of cable. Likely Independence Mine near Palmer and Wasilla, Alaska in the Willow Creek mining district. Taken mid-20th century.
Northwest -- Mines and mineral resources -- British Columbia (#02)
Mr. English and Otto Hyslocker(?) pose in front of a cabin at the Le Roi Mine in the Rossland district, ca. 1890
Northwest -- Mines and mineral resources -- British Columbia (#03)
Shaft and ore dump of the Le Roi Mine in the Rossland mining district, ca. 1890