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    Two bites to the cherry, walnuts and where they grow
    Creation Date: 1909
    Catalog ID: 2013.93.1
    Call Number: EPH-A/634.51/C475t/1909
    15 page illustrated booklet (25x22 cm.) promoting sale of land for developing walnut orchards in Yamhill County, Oregon. Published by Churchill-Matthews Co. in 1909. Includes map and color illustrated front cover featuring cherries and walnuts. Ephemera.
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    Prosperity
    Creation Date: ca. 1920-ca. 1940
    Catalog ID: 1951.11.6
    Depicts (what appears to be) Oregon prosperity of drawings and labels of: food products, industries, transportation, tourism, homes etc. Caricature of waiter carrying large platter of a roasted turkey labeled "Prosperity".
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    [political pin]
    Creation Date: ca. 1990
    Catalog ID: 2011.19.4
    Round pinback button showing stance of union against the Burlington Northern Holding Co., ca. 1990? White with black print. Attached to straight pin fastener on back is short length of green ribbon.
  • The Scenic lure of Spokane and the great Inland Empire of the Pacific Northwest
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    The Scenic lure of Spokane and the great Inland Empire of the Pacific Northwest
    Creation Date: 1925
    Catalog ID: 2014.126.22
    Call Number: EPH/979.7371/Sce62sp/1925
    32 page pictorial booklet (25.5x19.5 cm.) depicting scenes in and around Spokane, WA. Index of photographs including some by Asahel Curtis. Miss Spokane, dressed as American Indian woman, on cover. Includes map of Washington and parts of Idaho, Montana and Oregon, with Spokane at center and showing Columbia River Basin Project. Issued by Spokane & Inland Empire, Inc., cooperating with Spokane Chamber of Commerce. Dated 1925. Ephemera.
  • [Map of Longview, Washington]
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    [Map of Longview, Washington]
    Creation Date: 1923
    Catalog ID: 1997.1.253
    Call Number: MAPB/WW/COW/LONG/1923.1
    The map depicts a proposed general plan of development for Longview, Washington. Features are black ink on green background. City plan developed by: Hare and Hare (City Planners, Kansas City), Geo. E. Kessler (City Planning Consultant, St. Louis), and B. L. Lambuth, realtor, Seattle, 1923.
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    Port Angeles, the gate city of the Pacific Coast : free homes for thousands in Clallam County, Washington
    Creation Date: 1896
    Catalog ID: 2010.30.6
    Call Number: EPH/979.7991/P83cl/1896
    41-p. illustrated booklet describing business, agricultural and industrial opportunities in Port Angeles and Clallam County, intended to attract settlers; compliments of Clallam County Immigration Association. Printed in 1896. Ephemera. Includes promotional text for the Grand Army of the Republic Colony.
  • [Letter to G.H. Plummer, Western Land Agent, N.P.R.W.]
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    [Letter to G.H. Plummer, Western Land Agent, N.P.R.W.]
    Creation Date: 1908
    Catalog ID: 1997.10.100
    Call Number: EPH/979.751/C863p/1908
    1 p.; col. ill.; 28 cm.; Advertising letterhead with color image of harvest bounty in Benton County, WA
  • The Northern Pacific Railroad.  Sketch of its history: delineation of the divisions of its transcontinental line: its features as a great through route from the Great Lakes to the Pacific Ocean: its relations to the chief waterways of the continent
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    The Northern Pacific Railroad: Sketch of its history: . . . A description of the soils and climates
    Creation Date: 1884
    Catalog ID: 2006.73.10
    Call Number: EPH/385.061/N814bz/1884
    80 p.; ill., maps; 23 cm.; Lacks map and p. 81-; European Agency, Liverpool, stamp on p. 3; 2006.73.10
  • Uncle Sam will give you a home: in the Flathead Indian Reservation, Western Montana
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    Uncle Sam will give you a home: in the Flathead Indian Reservation, Western Montana
    Creation Date: 1909
    Catalog ID: 2002.108.1
    Call Number: EPH/385.061/N814un/1909
    1 v.; ill., maps; 26 cm.
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    Hellman City addition to the city of Seattle: copy of recorded plat
    Creation Date: [ca. 1910]
    Catalog ID: 1982.76.13
    Call Number: EPH/979.7772/H559h/1910
    1 sheet; ill., map; 20 cm.
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