Gallery of the Open Frontier Site Map / Subject Headings Beginning with "W"

o Description: This page contains information about Washboard designs. St. Louis

o Description: This page contains information about Washee, Wife and Daughter. Note on Photo: Washee starting for Guthrie(?).

· Washoe / Native Americans / Women / Huts

o Description: This page contains information about Photograph of Washoe women working.

· Waste disposal facilities / Sewerage / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o Description: This page contains information about Minidoka Relocation Center, Hunt, Idaho. Minidoka sewage treatment plant.

· Waste disposal facilities / Sewerage / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o Description: This page contains information about Minidoka Relocation Center, Hunt, Idaho. Minidoka sewage treatment plant.

· Watch towers / Explosions / Cliffs

o Description: This page contains information about “Blasting operations below Lookout Point for Black Canyon Highway.“

· Watch towers / Mountains / Trees / Forest reserves

o Description: This page contains information about Rainier Badger Lookout Tower, Columbia National Forest, 1929.

· Watch towers / Mountains / Trees / Forest reserves

o Description: This page contains information about Rainier Badger Lookout Tower, Columbia National Forest, 1929.

· Watch towers / Mountains / Trees / Forest reserves

o Description: This page contains information about Rainier Badger Lookout Tower, Columbia National Forest, 1929.

· Watch towers / Outbuildings / Dogs / Bridges / Buildings / Houses

o Description: This page contains information about Slip Point Dwelling and Walkway, July 1944

· Watch towers / Prisons / Auto service stations

o Description: This page contains information about View showing auto shop - machine shop as constructed in 1934 -- note old bachelor officer quarters at right.

· Watch towers / Trees / Forest reserves

o Description: This page contains information about Fox Butte Lookout Tower, Deschutes National Forest, 1938.

· Watchmen / Dogs

o Description: This page contains information about Dogs and keepers.

· Watchmen / Offices

o Description: This page contains information about Man sitting in office at McNeil Island.

· Watchmen / Prisons

o Description: This page contains information about Warden Palmer and staff. Staff member wore their own clothing; the insittution supplied rifles which the warden and the guards invarialbly carried.

· Water carriers / Boys / Children

o Description: This page contains information about El Cerrito, San Miguel County, New Mexico. Another regular chore is carrying water to the house. El Cerrito has no spring, and all water is taken direct from the irrigation ditch. Public health nurses have tried to make villagers add iodine to the muddy water before drinking it, but with little success. Typhoid has been and still is quite frequent here.

· Water holes / houses

o Description: This page contains information about Price River Resettlement Project Narrative Report Photographs 1-3, 8, 11-12, 17-18, and 20 with captions.--[Photograph of soil conditions of soil derived from “Mancos Shale“]

· Water lilies / Lakes & ponds / Plants

o Description: This page contains information about Nymphae Ploysepala.

· Water lilies / Lakes & ponds / Plants

o Description: This page contains information about Nymphae Ploysepala.

· Water lilies / Lily ponds / Botanical gardens

o Description: This page contains information about In Tower Grove Park Lily Pond.

· Water lilies / Lily ponds / Landscape architecture facilities / Lakes & ponds

o Description: This page contains information about Tower Grove Park.

· Water pumps

o Description: This page contains information about Pechanga Reservation. School Pumping Plant

· Water pumps

o Description: This page contains information about Pechanga Reservation. School Pumping Plant

· Water pumps / Automobiles / Huts / Women / Shacktowns

o Description: This page contains information about Olivehurst, Yuba County, California. Cooperation in a shacktown. A secondhand pump is being installed with the aid of a neighbor.

· Water pumps / Huts / Automobiles / Women / Shacktowns

o Description: This page contains information about Olivehurst, Yuba County, California. New settlers on western addition of Olivehurst have just installed their pump. Note windowless frame cabin on left, and trailer with which they have traveled standing in the yard.

· Water pumps / Soldiers / Military camps

o Description: This page contains information about With the U.S. Troops in Mexico. In the 11th Cavalry camp.

· Water pumps / Women / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o Description: This page contains information about Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Relocated Nisei girls getting a bucket of water from one of the hydrants at this relocation center.

· Water supply

o Description: This page contains information about “Boulder City Water Supply - (1) Treatment basins at filtration plant - Receiving tank and storage tank (on hill) in background; (2) Intake and desilting plant; (3) Treatment basins and filtration plant; (4) Interior of filtration plant - filters in background.“

· Water supply

o Description: This page contains information about This will provide about 6 gals. a minute when completed.

· Water supply / Buildings / Waterworks

o Description: This page contains information about “General view of treating and filtration plant, Boulder City Water Supply. View from east.“

· Water supply / Cotton pickers / Water carriers / Work camps / Children

o Description: This page contains information about Eloy District, Pinal County, Arizona. Water supply for migratory cotton pickers in FSA mobile camp just established in Eloy District.

· Water supply / Equipment / Storage tanks / Waterworks

o Description: This page contains information about “Mixing tanks and clarifying basins at treating and filtration plant, Boulder City Water Supply.“

· Water supply / Equipment / Waterworks

o Description: This page contains information about “Interior of treating and filtration plant, Boulder City water supply. Rapid sand filters and controls at left.“

· Water supply / Fences

o Description: This page contains information about Taos County, New Mexico. Flumes, carrying irrigation water across arroyos, are frequently washed out when most needed. This is one of serious problems of area.

· Water supply / Laboritories / Waterworks

o Description: This page contains information about “Testing laboratory at treating and filtration plant, Boulder City Water Supply.“

· Water supply / Machinery / Pipes / Water pumps / Waterworks

o Description: This page contains information about “Pipe gallery at treating and filtration plant, Boulder City Water Supply. Pump section at right.“

· Water supply / Reservoirs / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o Description: This page contains information about Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. The water reservoir which insures an adequate supply for the center.

· Water supply / Storage tanks / Waterworks

o Description: This page contains information about “Major units of Boulder City Water Supply. View from West showing 2,000,000 gal. storage tank on hill, 100,000 receiving tank on a erator at foot of hill and treating and filtration plant at right.“

· Water supply / Streams / Fences

· Water supply / Waterworks / Landscape photographs / Reclamation of land / Canals / Rivers

o Description: This page contains information about Huntley, Montana Reclamation Project, 1905-1931, Huntley main canal from above tunnel No. 3.

· Water tanks

o Description: This page contains information about Burial scene. The ground is very sparsely covered with grass.

· Water tanks / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o Description: This page contains information about Gila River Relocation Center, Rivers, Arizona. A view of the water tank at Camp Number 2.

· Water tanks / Military facilities

o Description: This page contains information about Note on photograph: “Building No. 70; Spring Reservoir“

· Water tanks / Military facilities

o Description: This page contains information about Note on photograph: “Tank House No. 56; Water Tanks; Tanks No. 5A“

· Water towers / Carts & wagons / Horse teams

o Description: This page contains information about Hauling water. Horse Heaven, Wash. Well supplies water for large area of country. G. July & Aug. 1902.

· Water towers / Horse teams / Carts & wagons

o Description: This page contains information about Hauling water. Horse Heaven, Wash. Well supplies water for large area of country. G. July & Aug. 1902.

· Water towers / Horse teams / Carts & wagons

o Description: This page contains information about Hauling water. Horse Heaven, Wash. Well supplies water for large area of country. G. July & Aug. 1902.

· Water troughs / Swine / Farms

o Description: This page contains information about Shelby County, Iowa.... Detailed description: “You can't raise 5 cent hogs on 60 cent corn.“ This was a common complaint in Shelby County last year. At present, most farmers prefer feeders to hogs, which are found in larger numbers on the low-income farms than on those of the wealthier farmers. Sows averaged 6 per farm, and other hogs 20 in 1940. Pigs are farrowed principally in the spring.

· Water use / Pumping stations / Waterworks / Hydraulic facilities / Water supply / Penstocks / Aqueducts

o Description: This page contains information about Small private pumping plant on Yellowstone river, 7 miles below Glendive.

· Watercarriers / Children / Girls / Adobe buildings

o Description: This page contains information about Taos County, New Mexico. Children help to carry water from the ditch or well for domestic use.

· Watercolors / Adobe buildings / Dwellings / Settlements / Pueblos

o Description: This page contains information about Indian houses in Cochiti built in the usual manner of the dwellings of the Pueblo Indians. One house about another and the upper houses reached by means of ladders reaching to the roof of the lower tier.

· Watercolors / Adobe buildings / Pueblos / Dwellings / Settlements / Cliff dwellings

o Description: This page contains information about A view of the Pueblo of Laguna. (see caption to 106-mcs-30)

· Watercolors / Cave dwellings / Settlements / Villages / Landscape drawings

o Description: This page contains information about Beam holes over the doors of Caveate dwellings in Bluffs on the Rio Grande, 25 miles west of Santa Fe, N.M.

· Watercolors / Cave dwellings / Settlements / Villages / Landscape drawings / Caves

o Description: This page contains information about On the Rio Grande - six miles above Chochili.

· Watercolors / Caves / Cave dwellings / Rock art / Cave drawings / Landscape drawings

o Description: This page contains information about Sketch of the Painted Cave (Gueva Piutada). “The Painted Cave“ (Gueva Piutada). A grand portal 100 feet high worn out in the volcanic tuff on the south slope of the Potnero de la Vacas about 12 miles northwest of Coehiti. It forms, so to say, the centre of a Pueblo of cave dwellings, now ruined. And at an altitude of 50 feet contains a series of rude figures painted in red and forming a semi-circle of 75 feet in extent. The figurines are symbolical of the dances of the Indians, of clouds and of lightning. It is reported that the inhabitants of the Potnero de la Vacas painted them after they left their great pueblo at the top of the Potnero.

· Watercolors / Caves / Cave dwellings / Settlements

o Description: This page contains information about View of entrances to cave dwellings. 25 miles west of Santa Fe, N.M.

· Watercolors / Forts & fortifications

o Description: This page contains information about Photograph of a painting of Fort Cummings, New Mexico, as it appeared in 1867.

· Watercolors / Forts & fortifications

o Description: This page contains information about Fort Steele, WY, Looking East. Elk Mountain winter scene reproduced from water color.

· Watercolors / Military camps

o Description: This page contains information about The “Old Post“ looking West from the clock tower, San Antonio, TX.

· Watercolors / Pueblos / Mesas / Cliffs / Cliff dwellings / Settlements / Villages / Land / Landscape drawings

o Description: This page contains information about To distant view of the rock and pueblo of Acoma from the north. Acoma, November 11, 1882, 7:00 AM.

· Watercolors / Ruins

o Description: This page contains information about Enclosed by a rude quadrangular stone wall. Each of these (106-mc-45 and 106-mcs-46) is about six feet long and represents a Puma in the act of crouching for a spring. The are idols of the Prey God of the North who is also God of the Chase and as such are still worshiped by all the Indians of the Rio Grande and the Zuni who anoint the heads of the statues with a reddish ointment when about to start a hunting expedition. They occupy the highest point of the great Potnero de las Vacas, and are about 1/2 mile from the ruins of an ancient pueblo. A splendid view of the Sierra de Santa Fe is enjoyed from the site of the statues.

· Watercolors / Ruins

· Waterfalls

o Description: This page contains information about Chester Falls.

· Waterfalls

o Description: This page contains information about Robert Ridley (On the right of the Falls. Other two persons unidentified.) (Mrs. Minthorn, 1926.)

· Waterfalls

o Description: This page contains information about Palm Springs. Ta-quitz Falls, West Canon.

· Waterfalls / Bays / Bodies of water / Mountains / Missions

o Description: This page contains information about View of Metlakahtla from top of waterfall.

· Waterfalls / Canals / Landscape photographs

o Description: This page contains information about Falls of Arizona Canal. Hartwell & Hamaker, photographers

· Waterfalls / Canyons / Expedition photographs / Expeditions & surveys

o Description: This page contains information about Shoshone Falls, Idaho

· Waterfalls / Canyons / Expeditions & surveys / Stereographs / Landscape photographs

o Description: This page contains information about Colorado River. Grand Canyon, outlet of Surprise Valley, 10 miles above mouth of Kanab. A pretty waterfall through the rock walls. Old nos. 451, 478, 934.

· Waterfalls / Canyons / Lakes & ponds

o Description: This page contains information about “Dry Falls, near Coulee City, Washington.“

· Waterfalls / Canyons / Rivers / Paintings

o Description: This page contains information about Great Falls on the Palouse River from summit of Cliffs on right bank

· Waterfalls / Cliffs

o Description: This page contains information about Shoshone Falls, Snake River, Idaho

· Waterfalls / Cliffs

o Description: This page contains information about Provo Falls, Utah

· Waterfalls / Cliffs

o Description: This page contains information about Provo Falls, Utah

· Waterfalls / Cliffs / Lakes & ponds / Expeditions & surveys

o Description: This page contains information about Shoshone Falls, Idaho

· Waterfalls / Cliffs / Landscape photographs / Rivers

o Description: This page contains information about Shoshone Falls, Idaho

· Waterfalls / Cliffs / National parks & reserves

o Description: This page contains information about Waterfall from hanging valley, Temple of Sinawava. During rainstorm.

· Waterfalls / Cliffs / National parks & reserves

o Description: This page contains information about Waterfall from hanging valley, Temple of Sinawava. During rainstorm.

· Waterfalls / Expeditions & surveys

o Description: This page contains information about Shoshone Falls, Idaho

· Waterfalls / Expeditions & surveys

o Description: This page contains information about Shoshone Falls, Idaho

· Waterfalls / Expeditions & surveys / Landscape photographs

o Description: This page contains information about Annus Glen, Winslow Creek, Garfield County, Utah. Hillers Photo. Original series No. 165, later Nos. 281, 425, 435. Note: Winslow Creek name was changed 5/17/65 by decision to Pine Creek.

· Waterfalls / Expeditions & surveys / Landscape photographs

o Description: This page contains information about Outlet, Surprise Valley. About 10 miles above the mouth of Kanab Canyon, Arizona. (Thompson Valley Outlet). Old No. 452, 479.

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