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Spokane City - Looking Upriver - Middle Falls (Below Howard)
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| Accession #: | 3180.1 |
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| Title: | Spokane City - Looking Upriver - Middle Falls (Below Howard) |
| Object Type: | Drawing |
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| Physical Description: | A watercolor and ink painting/drawing of the Spokane River and the Centennial Mill/Howard Street Bridge from the point of view of the middle falls of the Spokane River; the painting is signed in the lower right corner. |
| Description: | Frederick W. Lee's ink and watercolor painting illustrates the earliest Centennial Mill at the middle falls of the Spokane River. Agriculture, especially wheat cultivation, has played a critical role in Inland Northwest history. Early fur trading posts and missions like Waiilatpu planted gardens and small wheat fields, and since then the region's capacity for profitable wheat production has expanded. Fertile soil, railroad transportation, irrigation techniques, good farm management, and support from land grant university research have all contributed to the direct impact agriculture plays on the welfare and population growth in the Inland Northwest. Source: Spokane & the Inland Empire: An Interior Pacific Northwest Anthology, ed. by David H. Stratton (Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1991). |
| Category: | Art |
| Subjects/Topics/Concepts: |
Drawing (Artwork); Cityscape (Artwork->Subject); Landscape (Artwork->Subject); Watercolor (Artwork->Painting); Centennial Mills (Industry->Flour Mill)
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| Geographical Reference: | Spokane River (Washington->Spokane County) |
| Dimensions: |
Image Dimensions HxW 9 1/4 x 11 "
Mat Dimensions HxW 16 x 20 "
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| Materials/Techniques: |
paper (fiber product) (Material)
ink (Material)
watercolor (paint) (Material)
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| Marks/Inscription: |
Fredk. W. Lee Dec. 1901 (Location: LR)
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| Credit Line: | Found in Collections, 1986 |
| Copyright: |
public domain
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