Message: Dear Mother Just a few lines from Mary to let you know we are all well. Florance is still with one I had a postal from Miss Dora love from all M.M.G.
Addressee: Mrs. James Gilles Port Daniel Center Bonaventure Co. Canada, P. Q.
Mendenhall Glacier is a glacier about 12 miles long located in Mendenhall Valley, about 12 miles from downtown Juneau in the southeast area of the U.S. state of Alaska. circa 1930.
Printed on front: Ice cave, Mendenhall Glacier, near Juneau, Alaska
Printed on back: Ice Cave, Mendenhall Glacier Mendenhall Glacier is probably one of the best known glaciers in Alaska on account of its easy accessibility. It is reached by a beautiful highway out of Juneau. A very good idea of the size is obtained by comparing it with the figure of a man standing at the base.
Mendenhall Glacier is a glacier about 12 miles long located in Mendenhall Valley, about 12 miles from downtown Juneau in the southeast area of the U.S. state of Alaska. circa 1930.
Printed on front: Ice cave, Mendenhall Glacier, near Juneau, Alaska
Printed on back: Ice Cave, Mendenhall Glacier Mendenhall Glacier is probably one of the best known glaciers in Alaska on account of its easy accessibility. It is reached by a beautiful highway out of Juneau. A very good idea of the size is obtained by comparing it with the figure of a man standing at the base.
Message: Dear Howard we had a lovely trip nothing happen not even a puncture. My but Tacoma is lovely now lots of people there Grand Ma and Uncle Howard went to a picture show ? Love Nannie
Addressee: Howard Philbrick 610 Sixth St. Hoquiam, Wash.
Preliminary plans for the Grand Coulee Dam were made in the early 1920's, but the dam itself was not completed until 1941. The powerhouses and pumping plants were worked on during World War II and completed by 1946. 12 million cubic yards of concrete were used in the project, making it the largest concrete structure in the world. circa 1950.
Printed on front: The mighty Columbia River is harnessed at Grand Coulee Dam.
The Mitchell's Point Tunnel was blasted through solid rock 95 feet above the Columbia River. Its five windows, carved through basaltic rock, afforded a scenic view of the Columbia River Gorge. The Mitchell's Point Tunnel was a prominent feature of the Columbia River Highway, now known as the Historic Columbia River Highway. This famous roadway stretched 125 miles along the Oregon side of the Columbia River between Portland and The Dalles. The road is recognized as an engineering marvel and as America's first scenic highway. By the 1930s, the tunnel was considered inadequate for modern traffic. A wider, river-level route (now designated U.S. Route 30) was built at the base of Mitchell Point around 1937. The five famous windows were bricked up, the tunnel filled with rock, and the viaducts leading to the tunnel were blocked. The once-celebrated tunnel remained abandoned, but intact, until 1966 when the Mitchell Point Tunnel was destroyed during the widening of Interstate 84. circa 1918.
Printed on front: Day-lighted Tunnel at Mitchell's Point, Columbia River Highway, Oregon
The Mitchell's Point Tunnel was blasted through solid rock 95 feet above the Columbia River. Its five windows, carved through basaltic rock, afforded a scenic view of the Columbia River Gorge. The Mitchell's Point Tunnel was a prominent feature of the Columbia River Highway, now known as the Historic Columbia River Highway. This famous roadway stretched 125 miles along the Oregon side of the Columbia River between Portland and The Dalles. The road is recognized as an engineering marvel and as America's first scenic highway. By the 1930s, the tunnel was considered inadequate for modern traffic. A wider, river-level route (now designated U.S. Route 30) was built at the base of Mitchell Point around 1937. The five famous windows were bricked up, the tunnel filled with rock, and the viaducts leading to the tunnel were blocked. The once-celebrated tunnel remained abandoned, but intact, until 1966 when the Mitchell Point Tunnel was destroyed during the widening of Interstate 84. circa 1916.
Printed on front: Daylighted tunnel at Mitchell's Point, Columbia River Highway, Oregon
McMurray is a scattered community of small farms and homes on the west shore of Lake McMurray southeast of Mount Vernon in southwest Skagit County. It was once an important lumber and shingle manufacturing town. The railroad station was named by the Northern Pacific Railway for Dr. McMurray, a physician who homesteaded the site of the town. It was incorporated February 1, 1910 and disincorporated October 31, 1922. circa 1917.
Message: Visted American Lake yesterday. Saw Soldiers then stopped at Tacoma for couple hours thense to Seattle and on to Silver Lake. Wenatchee about Wednesday evening. Ralph
Addressee: Daisy C. Philbrick Hoquiam, Wash. 610-6
In Washington, black bears live in a diverse array of forested habitats, from coastal rainforests to the dry woodlands of the Cascades’ eastern slopes. In general, black bears are strongly associated with forest cover, but they do occasionally use relatively open country, such as clearcuts and the fringes of other open habitat. Black bears can take up residence in small dens, some scarcely bigger than a garbage can. Den sites include tree cavities, hollow logs, small caves, and areas beneath large roots, stumps, logs, and rural buildings. They’ll occasionally excavate a den in the side of a hill near shrubs or other cover. circa 1940.
The original two-way, four-lane toll bridge was designed by the engineer Homer Hadley and constructed of reinforced concrete in 1940. It sank in a storm on November 25, 1990, while it was undergoing refurbishing & repair. The current bridge was built in 1993. circa 1950.
Designed by Conde B. McCullough, this bridge is 464-feet long and consists of a 330-foot two-hinged steel braced-spandrel deck arch. The structure was one of the highest bridges in the United States, at 295-feet from deck to streambed, when it was built. It was completed in 1926. circa 1945.
Printed on back: New York Public Library The magnificent building at the library of New York is located at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. It was built in 1911 at a cost of $9,000,000 and contains spacious reading rooms, exhibition rooms and art galleries. Its book collections are priceless.
Printed on back: Mt. Rainier, although some 50 air miles distant, shows its snowy mantle across any view southwest from Seattle, Washington. Here it competes for attention with beautiful Lake Washington.
Printed on back: Lake washington Bridge, Seattle, is a tribute to the ingenuity of American Engineers. Except for entrances the bridge is full-floating, being supported by pontoons. A section can be moved to accomodate navigation. Tour the West this year with 76 gasoline
Message: I received your card and I am very sorry that I can not go down for Thanksgiving. I thank you very much for your invitation. I will try to get down some time. Your friend, U. K.
Message: Dear Folks-The Journal whistled "Haverlock Dry" at 9:15-this evening-hope the report will be confirmed by the official count. Beastly wind here for two days-not a drop of rain yet. J.B.W.
Addressee: Mr. & Mrs. Baumert Aberdeen, Washington 505 E Wishkah
Message: Dear Sis, Arrive 8' last night fine-dandy-he took me up to Taylors corner was awful good. All are pretty well here. Aunt Anna is worse again-Boys saw Harry yesterday in Newberg-he said they had two Drs.out the day before for her-thought perhaps you would like to go out if you were not working yet. Say Dot-I left two pair stockings in my coat box in the that corner you used to have by the pipes also that waist, so if you will send them I will send postage again. Please. ? all I am going school. Will write later, Trixie (N.C.H.)
Addressee: Dorothy B. Hanson 324 Hall St. Portland,Oregon.
Message: 1-19-10 Dear Folks, This is the kind of train that came in to A. sometimes only 3 logs to a car. Fine here a little snow last night but not cold, all gone to-day-The letters were fine that we got yesterday, but daddy didn't say when he was mustered out. And now that that story is finished he must not stop writing to us. We are well-Love to all.
Addressee: Mr. John Watson College View, Neb. Box 87.
