Palmer Lake Near Loomis, Washington, ca. 1910
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Title
Palmer Lake Near Loomis , Washington , ca. 1910
Photographer
Matsura , Frank , 1873-1913 .
Description
Palmer Lake lay near the town of Loomis , Washington . Loomis , founded in the 1870s , was an area populated early on by cattlemen . One outfit , Phelps and Wadleigh , herded cattle over from the west side near Seattle , through the Snoqualmie Pass and into the Sinlahekin Valley and Loomis . However , when law opened the North Half of the Colville Indian Reservation in 1886 , Loomis experienced a gold rush lasting until the silver slump of 1893 . Okanoganites enjoyed Palmer Lake for its fishing and scenic beauty , traveling there for vacation getaways in the summer heat .
Subject
Lakes & ponds--Washington (State)--Okanogan
Date
1910~
Type
Image
Genre
Photographic prints
Location
North and Central America--United States--Washington (state)--Okanogan county--Palmer Lake
Identifier
pc035b2f28n20
Source
Is found in PC 35, Frank S. Matsura Collection https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/pc35.htm at Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/
Rights Notes
No known copyright. Item went into public domain 70 years after the 1913 death of the author.
Restrictions
For permission to publish please contact Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (509) 335-6691 or the Okanogan Historical Society (509) 422-4272
Format
Original photographic prints were scanned as 300 dpi TIFF files on a Microtek 9600XL scanner. 72 dpi JPEG files were then added to the CONTENT database at the WSU Libraries.
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