Big Sky Country: The Palouse
You can see why Eastern Washington is called Big Sky Country in this photo of a Palouse farm around 1940. Source:Progress Commission Photographs, 1937-1945.
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You can see why Eastern Washington is called Big Sky Country in this photo of a Palouse farm around 1940. Source:Progress Commission Photographs, 1937-1945.
Eleven River Pigs take a break from their dangerous work on the Cowlitz River. Source: State Library Photograph Collection, 1851-1990.
The State Archives Reading Room in 1969. Source: General Subjects Photograph Collection, 1845-2005.
Freeway construction is well underway in the 1962 photo of downtown Seattle. Source:General Subjects Photograph Collection, 1845-1905.
This 1931 photo shows water surging through an alley in downtown Walla Walla. Source:Walla Walla Flood Control Commission Photographs, 1931.
The children in this undated photograph of a school in the vanished community of Buckeye, do appear to have shoes. Source: Spokane City Historic Preservation Office collection.
Natives playing a stick game in front of onlookers on the Colville Reservation, approximately 1900. Indian Census records are another source of information on reservation life in this time period. Source: Spokane City Historic Preservation Office collection.
Here at the Washington State Archives we love our census records, and they are some of the most popular records with the public. The word census is often taken to refer to the federal census, conducted once every ten years as mandated by the Constitution of the United States. There are other censuses in our holdings however, including territorial censuses and even some recorded at the county level during the territorial period.
