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Lawrence Meinert Photographs of Flooding

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Title Lawrence Meinert Photographs of Flooding
 
Subject Historic buildings -- Washington (State) -- Pullman.
Pullman (Wash.) -- Photographs.
Washington (State)
Environmental Conditions
Photographs
 
Description In February of 1996, flooding of the South Fork of the Palouse River, and other small streams, inundated parts of Pullman, Washington. Major flooding was averted largely due to sandbagging efforts that were arranged spontaneously by citizen volunteers. Lawrence Meinert, Prof. of Geology at Washington State University, photographed Pullman extensively during the period of the flooding, and later, in August, re-photographed many of the same sites with the purpose of illustrating the contrasting...
 
Publisher Washington State University Libraries
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
 
Date 1996
 
Type collection
 
Identifier http://nwda-db.orbiscascade.org/findaid/ark:/80444/xv21560
 
Language English
 
Coverage 1996
 
Institute of Museum and Library Services National Endowment for the Humanities Greater Western Library Alliance