[Update 12/10/12: I added a few lines beneath some of the photos
to answer a few questions.]
Friday was a good day, I got to watch one of my public history graduate students,
Clayton Hanson, defend his MA project and complete the requirements for graduation.
Clayton has combined his studies at Eastern Washington University with a series of seasonal positions with the National Park Service, where he has specialized in helping parks use new media to better serve the public. His MA project was a portfolio of some of the digital work he has done, including interpretive guides for the NPS on the use of social media, some
clever historic site interpretations at Spokane Historical, quire a few
Facebook posts for Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area, and quite a bit else. One of his digital media projects was to organize the Lake Roosevelt's photo collection put the highlights online, which he did at
Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area's photosets on Flickr.
There are some wonderful historic images there, and I wanted to share a few here:
Fort Spokane was established in 1880. By 1898 it had become
a boarding school for American Indians, and in 1909 it was converted to a tuberculosis sanitarium for American Indians.
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| Footbridge over Spokane River narrows, 1910 |
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| Augustine (?) and Augusta (?) Williams at mourning ceremony at Kettle Falls, June 1938 |
The "mourning ceremony" was held by Indians as the slack water of the Grand Coulee Dam rose and covered
Kettle Falls, where Indians had fished for salmon for thousands of years. To thousands of Indians, construction of the dam was then end to a traditional way of life.
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| Lafferty Transportation Company docks at Kettle Falls, 1955 |
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| Fort Spokane Baseball Club, 1894 |
There are so many additional wonderful images,
go ahead and explore a while. And congratulations Clayton!
