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| Title | Mail boat FLORENCE tied to shore at Rolling Rapids, Snake River, Idaho, ca. 1945 |
| Photographer | Grand, William |
| Date | ca. 1945 |
| Notes | Handwritten on verso: At "Rolling Rapids" we had to get out and walk around. This scene is a little dark and gloomy but it captured the mood of the passengers as they knew they'd be walking at least twice more later.
Printed on verso: At "Rolling Rapids" the pilot calls, "All on shore!" The more than a hundred boulder-studded rapids of the Snake, cause the sturdy mail boat to buck and growl over some of the rough ones. Occasionally, during the season of low water, the pilot invites the passengers to "take shore leave" to lighten the load over some of the bad spots...which help make the trip a real adventure in scenery and hazards.
PH Coll 773.8 |
| 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) | Mail steamers--Idaho; Rivers--Idaho; Rapids--Idaho |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Florence (Packet); Packets--Idaho; Snake River, South Fork (Idaho) |
| Location Depicted | United States--Idaho |
| Digital Collection | Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection
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| Order Number | AWC3326
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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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