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| Title | Marcus railroad yard restaurant , March 20, 1941. |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | 1941 |
| Notes | Caption included with image: 'MARCUS MOVES"-- WPA clearing oprations have reached the historic town of Marcus. One of the last meals served in the Marcus railroad yard restaurant by James Mullen and his wife before closing the doors for the last time on March 20th, was to their son, Charles. Mr. Mullen first came to Marcus in 1895 and has operated the depot's restaurant, or "Beanery", with his wife, for the past 18 years. They are going to New Marcus and "rest for a while". They remember boom days in Marcus before the railroad moved its Division office from Marcus to Spokane in the early twenties.
Caption on verso: US WPA 585
[Grand Coulee Dam 289] |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Restaurants--Washington (State)--Marcus
Restaurant workers--Washington (State)--Marcus
Coffeepots
Counters--Washington (State)--Marcus
Stools--Washington (State)--Marcus
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Beanery (Marcus, Wash)
Mullen, James
Mullen, Charles
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| Geographic Subjects | United States--Washington (State)--Marcus |
| Digital Collection | Grand Coulee Dam Collection
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| Order Number | DAM097 |
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Grand Coulee Dam Photograph Collection. PH Coll 478
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| Object Type | Photograph |
| Physical Description | silver gelatin, b&w |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print at 100 dpi in JPEG format and resized to 768x512 ppi or scanned from original text at 400 dpi in JPEG format and resized to 600 ppi horizontal. Saved at compression rate 3. 2000. |
