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  • We're floating to the famous Kettle Falls Valley...
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    We're floating to the famous Kettle Falls Valley...
    Creation Date: 1909
    Catalog ID: 2015.10.17
    Call Number: EPH/979.723/Sq58w/1909
    Color illustrated postcard (9.5x15 cm.) advertising cheap land in Kettle Falls Valley. Illustration features "Sunbonnet Babies": one in floating tub waving handkerchief to another at edge of water. Includes calendar for August 1909. Contact person is Archer Squire. Published in Kettle Falls, WA. Ephemera. Edward Nolan Collection.
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    The homesteader's son: the Indians, the cowboys, the homesteaders & me
    Creation Date: c2002
    Catalog ID: 2003.1.183
    Call Number: 979.728/M132h/2002
    239 p.; ill.; 23 cm
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    Chaining Oregon : surveying the public lands of the Pacific Northwest, 1851-1855
    Creation Date: 2008
    Catalog ID: 2008.1.77
    Call Number: 917.95/At95c/2008
    Paperback book of 264 p. including maps, illustrations, chapter notes, bibliography, and index. One of a series of books by same author "dealing with the human and environmental history of the Pacific Northwest."
  • Delightful Il-la-hee
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    Delightful Il-la-hee
    Creation Date: 1920
    Catalog ID: 2010.52.1
    Call Number: EPH/979.776/D379il/1920
    [12] page illustrated leaflet (13.5x20 cm.) promoting purchase of lots in the Kitsap County community of Il-la-hee near Port Orchard, on the shores of Puget Sound. Sepia tones with orange-color lettering. Dated 1920.
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    Sectional land map of Western Washington
    Creation Date: 1898
    Catalog ID: 2006.0.149
    Call Number: EPH-D/385.061/N814s/1897
    One sheet: ill., photos, maps, charts
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    Settlers' guide: a handbook of information for settlers . . .
    Creation Date: 1910
    Catalog ID: 2007.93.50
    Call Number: EPH/385.096/C16h/1910
    40 p.; ill., diagrs; 23 cm.; 2007.93.50
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    Montana free homestead land , Montana--the land of free homes and prosperity
    Creation Date: 1913
    Catalog ID: 2008.46.1
    Call Number: EPH-C/385.063/M762m/1913
    Single sheet, folded into 14 p. (45x82 cm. unfolded), describing free land for homesteaders in northern Montana, 1913. Published by the Great Northern Railway, with illustrations and map.
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    "Homestead certificate no. 633: application 1241"
    Creation Date: Nov. 6, 1895
    Catalog ID: 1976.68.2
    Call Number: EPH-B/979.797/Un3h/1895
    1 sheet, "Homestead certificate no. 633: application 1241"; Includes small illustration of man and woman at work in field, with house in background and red seal, Certificate grants tract of land to Carl L. Stebbins and his heirs, United States General Land Office, dated November 6, 1895.
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    Union City, its resources and prospects
    Creation Date: 1890
    Catalog ID: S1991.38.43
    Call Number: EPH/979.776/Un3h/1890
    19 p.; 18 cm.; S1991.38.43; Map removed to map collection
  • Tekoa : a thriving town with a bright future
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    Tekoa : a thriving town with a bright future, Gateway to the Coeur d'Alene Reservation
    Creation Date: 1905
    Catalog ID: S1992.27.37
    Call Number: EPH/979.739/T235/1905
    [20?] page booklet, titled " Tekoa : a thriving town with a bright future, Gateway to the Coeur d'Alene Reservation," describing Tekoa, Washington, published in 1905 by the Tekoa Commercial Club. Lacks pages 13-20. Illustrated paper cover featuring Tekoa High School: "Pitch your tent in Tekoa." Includes advertisements for Tekoa businesses. Back cover includes advertisement for the Mt. Saint Joseph's Academy conducted by t he Sisters of Saint Francis. Pale pink cover with black type and red accents. Tekoa is located in Whitman County in Eastern Washington. Ephemera.
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