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| Title | Snake River as seen from the mail boat FLORENCE, Idaho, ca. 1945 |
| Photographer | Grand, William |
| Date | ca. 1945 |
| Notes | Handwritten on verso: About halfway along on the upstream trip the river banks assumed a more rugged apperance as contrasted with gentle rolling hills in Lewiston district.
Printed on verso: Hell's Canyon...A glimpse of its sinister splender. Steep benches hem in the lower reaches of the Snake River, before the river banks stiffen into the dark craigs of the main canyon. The engines of the mail boat, echoring thru the twisting lava corridor, are a signal to the people of the wilderness that neither foaming rapids nor a gorge a mile deep halts the U.S. Mail.
PH Coll 773.24 |
| 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 |
| Digital Collection | Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection
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| Order Number | AWC3330
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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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