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| Title | Snake River and surrounding hills showing McGrady's lodge, Johnson Bar, Idaho, ca, 1945 |
| Photographer | Grand, William |
| Date | ca. 1945 |
| Notes | Handwritten on verso: View showing McGrady's lodge, in here passengers stayed over night. This parish, called Johnson Bar, is about 10 mi from the entrance to the Grand Canyon of the Snake R.
Printed on verso: Johnson Bar....The end of our journey. At last, after an all day trip from Lewiston, Idaho, the mail boat beaches nine miles south of Johnson Bar, on the Snake. The pilot has taken his mail boat and passengers thru one of the roughest reaches of water in the world. The lodge provides overnight accommodation. A sturgeon has been caught and is hauled aboard the boat. Passengers climb the steep walls of the canyon to view the magnificent scenery. The lodge is about ten miles from the entrance of Hell's Canyon...that vast abyss of the Snake, where navigation becomes impossible.
PH Coll 773.29 |
| Contextual Notes | The ninety-five mile river mail route down Snake River runs from Lewiston to Johnson's Bar in Idaho and is known for being full of rapids. The tradition of the River Route began in 1926 when Captain Ed MacFarlane was awarded the first mail contract and it is still operational today. |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Rivers--Idaho |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Snake River, South Fork (Idaho) |
| Location Depicted | United States--Idaho--Johnson Bar |
| Digital Collection | Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection
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| Order Number | AWC3333
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | William Grand Photographs of the Snake River Mail Boat Route. PH Coll 773 |
| Object Type | Photograph |
| Physical Description | 8 x 10 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2008. |
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