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Untitled Painting of Spokane Falls

Untitled Painting of Spokane Falls - Painting
Accession #: 3793.1
Title: Untitled Painting of Spokane Falls
Object Type: Painting
Participants:
Physical Description: Oil painting of Spokane Falls with the hydroelectric station in the lower left, the Howard Street North Channel Bridge in the upper left, the Middle Channel Bridge in the upper center, Havermale Island and the hydro pumping station in the center, and Echo Flour Mill in the far right.
Description: Alonzo Victor Lewis painted Spokane as it looked around 1900 with a hydroelectric station at the lower left, a hydro pumping station in the center, and the Echo flour mill at far right. Spokane's falls not only powered flour and saw mills, but also generated electricity at a competitively low price as early as 1885. Four years later, Washington Water Power Company had constructed a power station on the high falls near Monroe Street. Over the next fifty years, the building of northwest hydroelectric plants stimulated continued economic growth in both urban and rural areas.
Category: Art
Subjects/Topics/Concepts:
Oil (Artwork->Painting), Landscape (Artwork->Subject)
Geographical Reference: Spokane Falls (Washington->Spokane County->Spokane)
Dimensions:
Frame Dimensions H x W x D 25 x 33"
Materials/Techniques:
canvas (Material)
oil paint (paint) (Material)
Related Exhibits:
Credit Line: Gift of the Clackamas County Historical Society, 1995
Copyright:
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