WSU Special Collections and Archives
This gallery is assembled from photos housed in the Washington State University Library Archives and Special Collections in Pullman Washington. It features a number of photographs from the 1930s to the 1960’s. Many photos show slices of life along a free flowing lower Snake River and the many ways that people interacted with the lower river prior to the dams. A photographer named Paul Philemon Kies who was a professor at Washington State University in the 1950s and 1960s took a number of the photos in this collection. Of special value are his photos of the Lewiston, ID and Clarkston, WA waterfront and beach photos. These photos add to our understanding of the kinds of quality of life improvements the lower Snake River could bring communities if it were once again free flowing.
