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  • Worker inspecting frayed cables of the doomed Tacoma Narrows Bridge, 1940.
  • Seattle fire from First Avenue and Madison, 1889.
  • Capitol grounds landscaping work by Vibert Jeffers, ca. 1930.
  • Fire damage at the Old State Capitol building in Olympia by Vibert Jeffers, 1928.
  • Building the North Cascades Highway encompassed the better part of a century, 1968.
  • Capitol grounds landscaping work by Vibert Jeffers, ca. 1930.
  • Clipper ship "North Bend" run aground on Peacock Spit, near Cape Disappointment, 1928.
  • Old Capitol Building in flames, 1928.
  • Fire at Centralia Community College, ca. 2008.
  • Fire at Centralia Community College, ca. 2008.
  • Collapse of the Division Street Bridge, showing the wreckage of a Washington Water Power Street Car, 1915.
  • Early road travel in Washington, ca. 1900.
  • Flooded Clark County Road No. 15, ca. 1949.
  • Protest at Legislative Building, 1983.
  • Re-growth near Johnston Ridge at the Mount St. Helens Volcanic Monument, 2008.
  • Abandoned homestead southwest of Ephrata by Asahel Curtis, ca. 1920.
  • Homeless shantytown “Hooverville” south of downtown Seattle, 1937
  • On January 16, 1933 people converged on Olympia for a “Hunger March” to demand food, shelter, relief and programs to create jobs for the unemployed throughout the state.
  • On January 16, 1933 people converged on Olympia for a “Hunger March” to demand food, shelter, relief and programs to create jobs for the unemployed throughout the state.
  • The completion of I-5 through Seattle changed the commutes of millions through the city, 1966.
  • Job marches in Olympia, 1982.
  • Aftermath of the Great 4th of July fire in Ellensburg, 1889.
  • Eruption of Mount St. Helens, May 1980.
  • Aftermath of the Seattle fire of June 6, 1889, on the west side of First Avenue between Yesler Way and Columbia Street.
  • A Seattle fire station, fire engine, and fire fighting crew, 1922.
  • Marion Shovel operators hard at work, 1920.
  • A newly paved road into Spokane, ca. 1950.
  • Hard work moving sheets at a Washington veneer company, ca. 1940.
  • Crew working on water line installation, 1925.
  • Logging camp in Rose Valley, nd.
  • Colfax flood, 1910.
  • "Men who worked at the Averill Mill upriver from Elberton, Washington. The mill was torn down in 1901."
  • "McGregor harvest crew at lunch at a portable cookhouse circa 1925. These people worked very hard in hot and difficult conditions."
  • "McGregor harvest crew taken in the mid 1930s."
  • "Silver lead mines,n.d. Metaline Falls."
  • Flood cleanup on the White River, south King County, 1921.
  • Floodwaters and broken revetment on the White River, south King County, c.1921.
  • Man sitting on broken revetment along the White River, south King County, c. 1927.
  • Destructive result of 1917 flood, in which 3600 feet of levee and revetment were eroded (White River, south King County).
  • Man inspecting revetment on the White River, south King County (placed 1918, destroyed by 1932 flood).
  • King County road crew constructing Permanent Highway 5-A between Bellevue and Newport, c. 1919.
  • Negotiating snow and gravel ruts on the James Nelson Road near Renton, ca. 1910.
  • Cover of youth-targeted AIDS informational brochure, mid-1980s.
  • Invitation to participate pseudonymously in a Public Health AIDS reporting program, mid-1980s.
  • Residents working in shops of the former King County Cedar Hills Alcoholism Treatment Facility, July 1969.
  • Residents working in shops of the former King County Cedar Hills Alcoholism Treatment Facility, July 1969.
  • AIDS awareness, mid-1980s.
  • Donald "Slick" Watts, Seattle Supersonic, helps Metro Transit launch an advertising campaign, c. 1979.
  • AIDS awareness: part of a postcard sequence by artist Paul Hornby, mid-1980s.
  • Formerly French Street at time of construction, stamp of the WPA located on Harding Street in Enumclaw, 2010.
  • Formerly French Street at time of construction, stamp of the WPA located on Harding Street in Enumclaw, 2010.
  • Repaired Division Street Bridge over the Spokane River, nd.
  • Collapsed Division Street Bridge over the Spokane River, 1915.
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