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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
  • Subject Keys: Davenport
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    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1934-07-30


    • Davenport envisions even more prosperity with completion of Grand Coulee dam

    • 1934

    • Davenport envisions even more prosperity with completion of Grand Coulee dam. - The city of Davenport is the gateway to a large territory in central Washington. Main highways out of Davenport lead directly into Spokane, the Grand Coulee country,...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1934-07-30
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. D. 1936-12-19


    • A christman tribute to the developer
      Dedicated to those people who work in behalf of their fellowmen

    • 1936

    • A christman tribute to the developer
      Dedicated to those people who work in behalf of their fellowmen
      This is an old-time photograph. It was taken in August of 1921 by the veteran and expert Washington photographer, Asahel Curtis, during the...
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. D. 1936-12-19
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. D. 1923-05-12


    • Fifty years in the palouse country.

    • 1923

    • Fifty years in the palouse country.
      A resident of Colfax since 1873, Mrs. Martha Davenport was guest of honor at a luncheon given in celebration of her 89th birthday anniversary. The Inland Empire of 50 years ago was not the Inland Empire of...
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. D. 1923-05-12
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. J. 1926-05-05


    • A resident of the Northwest for 75 years.

    • 1926

    • A resident of the Northwest for 75 years.
      When Mrs. Lucinda Davenport Jacobs, whose death is reported from Seattle, crossed the plains to Oregon in 1851 with her parents, she was verging into womanhood. Fourteen is an impressionable age. The...
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. J. 1926-05-05
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1936-06-18. p. 2.


    • Trip to Coulee dam is marked by ever changing vista of grandeur

    • 1936

    • Trip to Coulee dam is marked by ever changing vista of grandeur. - Driving west from Spokane to the Grand Coulee dam site, one follows the Sunset highway through Reardan, Davenport and Creston to Wilbur. The road is paved with concrete to point a...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1936-06-18. p. 2.
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1936-06-18. p. 1.


    • Trip to Coulee dam is marked by ever changing vista of grandeur

    • 1936

    • Trip to Coulee dam is marked by ever changing vista of grandeur. - Driving west from Spokane to the Grand Coulee dam site, one follows the Sunset highway through Reardan, Davenport and Creston to Wilbur. The road is paved with concrete to a point a...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1936-06-18. p. 1.
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Irrigation & reclamation. 1937-12-09


    • Reclamation of Columbia Basin discussed with chief of service

    • 1937

    • Reclamation of Columbia Basin discussed with chief of service. - Approximately 100 persons interested in the reclamation of the Columbia basin gathered at the Davenport hotel yesterday to confer with John C. Page, reclamation commissioner. Problems...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Irrigation & reclamation. 1937-12-09
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1936-06-18


    • Trip to Coulee dam is marked by ever changing vista of grandeur

    • 1936

    • Trip to Coulee dam is marked by ever changing vista of grandeur. - Driving west from Spokane to the Grand Coulee dam site, one follows the Sunset highway through Reardan, Davenport and Creston to Wilbur. The road is paved with concrete to a point a...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1936-06-18
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Legislation. 1936-12-17


    • East side may halt left wing

    • 1936

    • East side may halt left wing. - Spokane conference of legislators also will talk Coulee and W. S. C. - Whether eastern Washington legislators will hold the balance of power in the 1937 session, acting as a curb on the left wing bloc from the West...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Legislation. 1936-12-17
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Power. 1937-01-21


    • Coulee power industry key

    • 1937

    • Coulee power industry key. - Electro furnace alone will work revolution, declares world-famed engineer. - The time is coming when more dams than the Grand Coulee and Bonneville will be constructed in this region, so tremendous and indispensable a...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Power. 1937-01-21
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Visitors. Tourists. 1936-04-30


    • N. Y. hotel man praises Coulee

    • 1936

    • N. Y. hotel man praises Coulee. - The manager of the world's greatest hotel looked on the west's greatest industrial improvement Tuesday. He is A. Nulle, director of the Waldorf-Astoria, New York, and the object of his study was the Coulee dam. He...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Visitors. Tourists. 1936-04-30
    • State history. Columbia Basin. Columbia Basin Commission. 1919-08-11


    • West is tired of being second fiddle for east

    • 1919

    • West is tired of being second fiddle for east. - Durham tells United States chamber leaders to watch the fireworks. - Development of between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 acres of land under the Columbia basin project was the subject of a half hours's...
    • State history. Columbia Basin. Columbia Basin Commission. 1919-08-11
    • State history. Columbia Basin. Columbia Basin Commission. 1935-10-22


    • Collier's article refuted by facts on Coulee dam

    • 1935

    • Collier's article refuted by facts on Coulee dam. - (The following answer to the article "Power in the Wilderness," recently appearing in Collier's, was written by James O'Sullivan, secretary of the Columbia Basin commission, and sent to William J....
    • State history. Columbia Basin. Columbia Basin Commission. 1935-10-22
    • State history. Columbia Basin. General. 1936-04-04


    • Home loan men visit dam site

    • 1936

    • Home loan men visit dam site. - Many of the delegates to the Pacific Northwest conference of the 11th Federal Home Loan bank district here, paid a visit to the Grand Coulee dam Wednesday, while the remainder of the group who have been here for the...
    • State history. Columbia Basin. General. 1936-04-04

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