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    • Basketry hat

    • Basketry hat

    • Plateau Culture Area; clothing, headwear; geometric pattern

    • Woman's basketry hat, woven in wrapped twining of hemp, bear grass, and an unidentified plant fiber. The design has three triangular units along the top and three along the bottom. The buckskin thong at the top of the hat is used to tie the warps...
    • Baskets
    • Basket

    • Basket

    • geometric pattern; human face; lattice

    • Round basketry bag, woven in wrapped twining with hemp warps and wefts of an unidentified plant fiber. The overall design is comprised of stylized human faces in a diamond shaped lattice. The rim is bound in buckskin and has a buckskin drawstring.
    • Baskets
    • Basket

    • Basket

    • geometric pattern; step pattern; checker pattern; dog, domestic

    • Oblong basket with a sloping shoulder and a flat lid. The base and lid are plaited basketry of split cedar bark, bear grass and cherry bark in a checker pattern over flat pieces of wood. The body of the basket is coiled and imbricated in cedar...
    • Baskets
    • Basket

    • Basket

    • geometric pattern; step pattern; X-pattern

    • Oval basket with flared sides. Coiled of split cedar root with imbrication of bear grass and horsetail root. The design is a series of step shapes arranged in zigzag bands. At the rim is a row of X-shaped elements.
    • Baskets
    • Basketry bag

    • Basketry bag

    • geometric pattern; triangle

    • Round basketry bag with straight sides. Twined of hemp with false embroidered decoration of corn husk. The overall pattern is comprised of triangle shapes with plain twined elements pointing down and false embroidered elements pointing up.
    • Baskets
    • [Great Northern - tunnel under Seattle]

    • [Great Northern - tunnel under Seattle]

    • Great Northern Railway; Great Northern Tunnel; Seattle, WA; King County; worker, railroad construction; tunnel

    • Workers haul dirt in wheelbarrows out of the tunnel under construction for the Great Northern Railway. Shifts of men worked 24 hours a day on the project, each crew wanting to be the first to break through to complete the tunnel.
    • Asahel Curtis Photographs
    • Chin Gee-Hee

    • Chin Gee-Hee

    • Chin Gee-Hee; Chinese in Washington; contractor, railroad; Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railroad; Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad and Transportation Company

    • Chin Gee-Hee at his desk in Seattle
    • Asahel Curtis Photographs
    • [Great Northern - King Street Station]

    • [Great Northern - King Street Station]

    • King Street Station; Great Northern Railway; Northern Pacific Railway; Seattle, WA; tower, clock; depot, railroad

    • The King Street Depot in Seattle serving the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railways. This photo was taken shortly after the station opened on May 10, 1906
    • Asahel Curtis Photographs
    • [Milwaukee Road - grading]

    • [Milwaukee Road - grading]

    • Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway; Milwaukee Road; Snoqualmie Pass; construction, railroad; worker, railroad construction; switchback

    • Workers for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway grade a hillside near Snoqualmie Pass
    • Asahel Curtis Photographs
    • [Great Northern - Wellington disaster]

    • [Great Northern - Wellington disaster]

    • Great Northern Railway; Weelington, WA; King County; snow; avalanche; train wreck

    • View of the town of Wellington, Washington showing overhanging ledge of snow after the avalanche that swept two Great Northern trains 150 feet down Windy Mountain killing 96 people on March 1, 1910
    • Asahel Curtis Photographs
    • [Great Northern Wellington disaster]

    • [Great Northern Wellington disaster]

    • Great Northern Railway; Wellington, WA; King County; snow; avalanche; train wreck; disaster; worker, rescue

    • Men stand among downed trees that cover Great Northern mail train no. 27. The train was swept 150 feet into a ravine below the tracks at Wellington by the avalanche of March 1, 1910
    • Asahel Curtis Photographs

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