Pathfinding Party for Route to Condon Ferry, 1911
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Title
Pathfinding Party for Route to Condon Ferry , 1911
Photographer
Matsura , Frank , 1873-1913 .
Description
Early October , 1911 , a contingent of Okanogan townsmen forged a path from the South Half (the area of the Colville Indian Reservation directly across the river from town) through Cold Springs to the Condon Ferry at the Columbia River . Fifteen men in three cars traveled on the primitive Wild Goose Bill Road , clearing a path with picks and shovels . The work took longer than expected , and, when many had to return home that same evening , the party split up . Harry Folmsbee , in his EMF automobile , along with Harry J . Kerr , Harry Stark , Sam T . Nelson , and Frank Matsura , traveled the entire twenty-six miles to the Condon Ferry . Developing the Wild Goose Bill Road was said to have shaved forty miles off the drive from Okanogan to Spokane . Known citizens from left to right are: Ira Freer (standing on the right hand side of his Locomobile) , William C . Brown (fourth from the left) , Harry Stark on his right , Harry Folmsbee (beside the front right tire of his EMF automobile) , Harry J . Kerr (standing next to him holding a can) , and Sam T . Nelson , leaning on the headlight of John Forsyth's EMF .
Subject
Automobiles--Washington (State)--Okanogan ; Freer , Ira ; William C . Brown ; Stark ; Folmsbee ; Kerr ; Nelson ; John ; Forsyth
Date
1911
Type
Image
Genre
Group portraits
Location
North and Central America--United States--Washington (state)--Okanogan county
Identifier
pc035b2f31n12
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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