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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
  • Description: Homes
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    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1935-06-07


    • Homes at Boulder dam show what Coulee may expect

    • 1935

    • Homes at Boulder dam show what Coulee may expect. - Camera men with an eye for attractive home scenes may have opportunity in the not-too-distant future to pick shots like this at the government townsite headquarters of engineers and workers on the...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1935-06-07
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1935-10-30


    • Coulee dam homes show result of careful landscaping

    • 1935

    • Coulee dam homes show result of careful landscaping. - Sometimes referred to in the past as the land of sagebrush and jack rabbits, the Grand Coulee dam site area now looks like a garden of Eden with its attractive and well-landscaped lawns, among...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1935-10-30
    • State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. General. 1937-05-11


    • Heat homes electrically

    • 1937

    • Heat homes electrically. - Contractors of the Grand Coulee dam are heating their homes by electricity transmitted 100 miles and are paying approximately $12.50 a month, James O'Sullivan, secretary of the Columbia basin commission told the house of...
    • State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. General. 1937-05-11
    • State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. General. 1937-05-14


    • Electricity to heat homes

    • 1937

    • Electricity to heat homes. - Vision of future in basin drawn by O'Sullivan for committee. - Backers of the $125,000 Grand Coulee hydro-electric project on the Columbia river in Washington state were revealed last week to be looking forward to the...
    • State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. General. 1937-05-14
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. S. 1919-10-13


    • First homes of Okanogan Smith

    • 1919

    • First homes of "Okanogan" Smith
      Here are shown the first two homes of Hiram F. "Okanogan" Smith. The upper picture shows the first cabin built in the Okanogan country. It was erected in 1856. The lower photo shows the trading store and residence...
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. S. 1919-10-13
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Corporations & mergers. 1934-02-23


    • Visions vast corporations as home builders of America - Houses will come ready to put together with wrench and screw driver - lumbermen are told - Oregon loan league head says U. S. has shortage of 1,500,000 suitable homes

    • 1934

    • Visions vast corporations as home builders of America - Houses will come ready to put together with wrench and screw driver - lumbermen are told - Oregon loan league head says U. S. has shortage of 1,500,000 suitable homes - A prophecy of giant...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Corporations & mergers. 1934-02-23
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Federal aid. 1934-02-24


    • Lumbermen hit homes in mass - protest federal plan to produce houses on large output scale

    • 1934

    • Lumbermen hit homes in mass - protest federal plan to produce houses on large output scale - Western retail lumbermen, in their closing convention session here today, went on record as protesting any federal plan of mass production of homes and as...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Federal aid. 1934-02-24
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Contractors townsite. 1934-10-29


    • Electricity to heat homes at dam site

    • 1934

    • Electricity to heat homes at dam site. - Electricity will be used entirely to heat the homes, bunkhouses and other buildings at Mason City, now under construction by the Mason-Walsh-Atkinson-Kier company at the Grand Coulee dam site to house their...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Contractors townsite. 1934-10-29
    • State history. Native Americans. Indian Affairs. 1936-06-09


    • Modern homes replace wigwams of central Oregon piute tribe

    • 1936

    • Modern homes replace wigwams of central Oregon Piute tribe. - Traditional Indian civilization, exemplified by shabby wigwams that were spirited about the plains with travois and kyak, neared the end of its trail last week as the government erected...
    • State history. Native Americans. Indian Affairs. 1936-06-09
    • Northwest history. Irrigation & reclamation. Development. 1930-06-09


    • Hundred of new farm homes to be created by high line.

    • 1930

    • Hundred of new farm homes to be created by high line. - Water turned on 22,000 acres this year showing marked improvement ; is salvation of valley. - The Kittitas reclamation project, which has been under construction here for the past three years...
    • Northwest history. Irrigation & reclamation. Development. 1930-06-09
    • State history. Native Americans. Miscellaneous. 1931-12-29


    • Indians desert tepees for homes

    • 1931

    • Indians desert tepees for homes. - Kootenai Indians living on the reservation near Bonners Ferry celebrated Christmas this year in their biggest Christmas gifts--homes built by Uncle Sam. The upper photo shows the village as it formerly appeared,...
    • State history. Native Americans. Miscellaneous. 1931-12-29
    • State history. Native Americans. Relief. 1936-05-26


    • Indians given self-aid homes

    • 1936

    • Indians given self-aid homes. - Indian Commissioner John Collier said today houses and self-help buildings constructed on a community pattern similar to subsistence homestead projects were under way on 50 reservations, including the Tulalip in...
    • State history. Native Americans. Relief. 1936-05-26
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1935-06-03


    • This is one of the all-electric homes at Coulee dam

    • 1935

    • This is one of the all-electric homes at Coulee dam. - The picture in the upper left corner shows where the family in this model all-electric home at Mason City, MWAK town at the Coulee dam, will spend some of the most enjoyable hours. But the...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1935-06-03

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