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Soap Lake, Washington.
Soap Lake, home of health resorts, 57 miles south of the Grand Coulee Dam, Washington.
Car at the entrance to Mt. Rainier National Park
Flanders automobile at Mount Rainier National Park, ca. 1910
Northwest -- Geology -- Washington (#10)
"Showing the Kettles holes in the bedrock worn by the cutting effect of the Columbia River current at Kettle Falls"
Spokane -- Electric power plants (#39)
"Little Falls power station, Spokane River, near Spokane. 32,800 hp. the W.W.P. Co."
Washington -- Kettle Falls (#26)
"Looking directly across the main line of the falls from the west end."
Northwest -- Idaho -- Post Falls (#02)
"Power house of the Post Falls station of the Washington Water Power company located on the Spokane River in Idaho near the Washington state line. A Spokane River project."
Northwest -- Idaho -- Post Falls (#01)
"Dam at Post Falls power station. The Washington Water Power 15,000 hp."
Northwest -- Lakes -- Newman Lake (#40)
"Panoramic view of the lake and the surround country" of Newman Lake
Spokane Falls -- Recent (#15)
Looking down on south branch, middle falls from Howard Street Bridge, high water, winter 1934.
Nisei Basketball Team Members
By the 1930s, the first American-born generation of Japanese Americans began to come of age. This generation were called Nisei, which translates to second generation (the immigrant generation were called Issei). This portrait is of a group of…
Letterhead Envelopes from Chan family papers
In spite of their names, both the New York Cafe and Golden Wheel Restaurant were Chinese restaurants in Ellensburg and Yakima respectively. The Golden Wheel Restaurant is still in business as of 2025. The New York Cafe occupied the ground level of a…
Chinese Gardens Menu
As of 2024, the Chinese Gardens is one of the oldest Chinese restaurants still operating in Spokane. Started in 1948, the restaurant was one of a couple open on West Sprague at the time. The restaurant operated on the second floor near the corner of…
Sandy Wong and Virginia Fox in the Chinese Gardens Restaurant
The Chinese Gardens restaurant opened on 611 West Sprague Avenue in 1948 by John (Sheong) Chan. This is a photograph is of waitress Virginia Fox and Sandy Wong, whose uncle, Y.S. Hoy, had a financial interest in the business. The Chinese Gardens was…
Downtown Spokane During the Expo '74 Renovation
Aerial photograph of the Spokane riverfront amidst the renovations in preparation for Expo '74. Along the south end of Trent Avenue, the rubble from a building at the corner of Stevens Street and Trent Avenue is visible. This likely includes what…
Tetsuzo Terao Near His Home on Cowley Street
Many Japanese Americans living in Spokane who could afford a house in the first half of the 20th century, purchased homes on the lower South Hill east of Division Street. These neighborhoods were amongst those where families of color were not barred…
New Chinese Republic Parade Float
According to the 1910 census, the Chinese American population in Spokane County was 263. Many in this community lived near Trent Avenue (now Spokane Falls Boulevard) between Browne Street and Howard Street. The population held enough recognition that…
Meejosee Wong, Yut Sun Hoy, and Sandy Wong in Wing Wo Chinese Medicine Company
Yut Sun Hoy ran the Wing Wo Chinese Medicine Company after the death of his uncle Hoy Sam in 1926. In 1953, Yut Sun moved the store to 917 West Sprague Avenue, which is currently the block containing the Bing Crosby Theater and the Knitting Factory.…
Japanese Methodist Mission Kindergarten Portrait
The Japanese Methodist Mission in Spokane was founded in 1902 above the home of Reverend Genshichi Tsuruta. Initially, the mission served young men migrating to Spokane for work or school, but by 1910, when the church ran services out of a building…
Grant Street Methodist Church
A large group of people gathered for a group portrait in front of the Grant Street Methodist Church on Fifth Avenue and Grant Street. According to the church's' history published in 1967, the photograph was taken for a 35th anniversary celebration on…
Hisako Kato on the Fire Escape of the Northwestern Hotel
Trent Alley was never known for its abundant plant life. This photograph of the back fire escape of the Northwestern Hotel and Hand Laundry captures a large hanging vine that grew in the portion of the alley where the Davenport Grand currently…
Kato Family in Trent Alley
The group photograph taken in Trent Alley includes Kenneth Kato's grandparents Testumu (back row left) and Ume Terao (front center), his mother (left of Ume Terao), and Kenneth (right of Ume Terao). The Northwestern Hotel and Hand Laundry is behind…
Kenneth Kato in Trent Alley
Kenneth Kato's family lived in the Northwestern Hotel and Hand Laundry on 333 Trent Boulevard when he was born in 1949. The back of the building opened up onto Trent Alley, which served as an entrance to the hotel on the second floor run by Kato's…