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1. Beautiful Link in Our Highway System
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1 p. article describing the building of the Columbia River Highway, including construction details. The article also contains four photographs: one depicting the bridge at Shepperd's Dell, one depicting the entrance to the observatory tunnel, one depicting Mitchell's Tunnel through Storm Cliff; one showing the overlook at Crown Point on the Columbia River.
2. Report of the Secretary of War, being part of the Message and Documents Communicated to the Two Houses of Congress at the Beginning of the Second Session of the Fifty-Second Congress. Volume II. Part III.
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Selected pages from the Report of the Secretary of War, Volume 2, Part 3, in 1892. Serial Set 3080.
3. Bonneville Dam: 1939 Aerial Photographs
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3 aerial photographs and a guide map of the Bonneville Dam area taken in 1939 as part of the OCSW river survey.
4. Great Training Jetty at the Mouth of the Columbia River, Oregon
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2 p. A journal article giving some history and financial information, as well as a great deal of construction detail, for the jetty built at the mouth of the Columbia River. The work of the pile-driver and use of railroad cars to carry construction supplies on the miles-long trestle are described. Messrs. M. J. Kinney and Robert Gibson are thanked for the accompanying illustrations and data used in the article. The five photographs show lowering of "mattresses" at the end of the jetty; a train load of rock starting its run out; loading rock onto the dump-cars at the jetty dock; the jet pile-driver used in constructing the trestle; and dumping rocks after the "mattresses" have been lowered.
5. Lumber Rafts on the Columbia River
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1 p. Article describing the construction and use of rafts designed to transport lumber on the Columbia River. Also included on the page is the completion of an unrelated article, as well as a summary of the contents of the journal supplement.
6. Columbia River Power and the Northwest
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30 p. This pamphlet, published by the Bonneville Power Administration, details that body's construction of the Bonneville and Grand Coulee dams. It discusses the benefits from improved inland navigation and transportation, irrigation, and power supply produced by these projects. There is much discussion and comparison of electric rates. The pamphlet is heavily illustrated with black and white drawings, charts, and maps.
7. Through the Columbia River Gorge by Auto
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Article by Randall R. Howard. The author describes the construction of the Columbia River Highway, and takes us on an automobile journey along the Highway from Portland, Oregon to The Dalles and Celilo Falls. Accompanying photographs are of a stretch of highway on the Washington side of the Columbia River, built by Sam Hill of Maryhill; a bridge above the stream from Latourelle Falls; a tunnel through the rock at Oneonta Gorge; and a view of Celilo Falls.
8. Columbia River
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1 p. A poem of 11 unequal stanzas by Emma Shaw. We stand on Cape Disappointment at sunset and watch the Columbia River, envisioning its flow from its "far-off, wild birthplace" down to the Pacific Ocean. Mount Hood, St. Helens, Mount Jefferson, and Mount Adams are all seen "beneath the gorgeous sunset sky".
9. Serial Set 3078
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A collection of images, documents, and maps relating to the Columbia River Basin and other Western U.S. water resources.
10. gov serial set 1743
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Items from a collection of images, documents, and maps relating to the Columbia River Basin and other Western U.S. water resources.
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