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| Title | Mail boat FLORENCE near Hell's Canyon, Snake River, Idaho, ca. 1945 |
| Photographer | Grand, William |
| Date | ca. 1945 |
| Notes | Handwritten on verso: Alternative view of boat about to enter Upper Cottonwood Rapids in upstream trip.
Printed on verso: The Snake River passage. Thru miles of canyon, and innumerable rapids, in that inaccessible, little-known region called "Hell's Canyon, " the mail boat delivers mail and cargo to ranchers and miners on the banks of the Snake. Regular mail trips are made each week, where the mountains close in on the narrowing river, and where rapids follow another in fairly regular succession.
PH Coll 773.27 |
| 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 |
| 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 | AWC3332
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| Negative Number | UW27744z |
| 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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