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• 21. [Image] On the upper Amazon

  	The Amazon River is the largest in the world; it is not the longest for the Missouri-Mississippi River is longer, but it contains more water than any other river in the world. The amount of fresh water ...
  	Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: On the upper Amazon Year: 1900 The Amazon River is the largest in the world; it is not the longest for the Missouri-Mississippi River is longer, but it contains more water than any other river in the world. The amount of fresh water brought to the mouth of the river is so great that for more than 100 miles out to the sea the water is fresh. The Amazon is about 4,000 miles long, which is 600 miles more than the distance from New York to Liverpool. For 250 miles upstream from the mouth this river is 50 miles wide, so that it looks like a broad bay rather than a river. The main stream and the twenty-nine larger tributaries have 27,000 miles of navigable waters, which is more than any other river system in the world. If the Hudson River, which empties into the Atlantic at New York were a great stream flowing through our continent from the west so that we could enter it and sail clear across the land to Salt Lake City on a steamer, we should have about the same condition of transportation as prevails on the Amazon. Para, in the Amazon Valley, is the chief rubber port of the world. The rubber is made from the sap of the Siphonia elastica, a forest tree which grows wild in this region. Para is also noted for the quantity of cacao exported. About half a million dollars' worth of it is shipped every year, and the product all told amounts to thousands of tons. From the Amazon lowlands which are overgrown with tropical forests, mahogany, rosewood, ebony, drugs, and Brazil nuts are found. Title: On the upper Amazon Year: 1900 The Amazon River is the largest in the world; it is not the longest for the Missouri-Mississippi River is longer, but it contains more water than any other river in the world. The amount of fresh water brought to the mouth of the river is so great that for more than 100 miles out to the sea the water is fresh. The Amazon is about 4,000 miles long, which is 600 miles more than the distance from New York to Liverpool. For 250 miles upstream from the mouth this river is 50 miles wide, so that it looks like a broad bay rather than a river. The main stream and the twenty-nine larger tributaries have 27,000 miles of navigable waters, which is more than any other river system in the world. If the Hudson River, which empties into the Atlantic at New York were a great stream flowing through our continent from the west so that we could enter it and sail clear across the land to Salt Lake City on a steamer, we should have about the same condition of transportation as prevails on the Amazon. Para, in the Amazon Valley, is the chief rubber port of the world. The rubber is made from the sap of the Siphonia elastica, a forest tree which grows wild in this region. Para is also noted for the quantity of cacao exported. About half a million dollars' worth of it is shipped every year, and the product all told amounts to thousands of tons. From the Amazon lowlands which are overgrown with tropical forests, mahogany, rosewood, ebony, drugs, and Brazil nuts are found. Close

• 22. [Image] Native boat, Kongo River

  	The Kongo, while not so long as the Nile, is greater in volume than any other river in Africa, is greater in volume than the Mississippi, and is second only to the Amazon. It drains a basin as large as ...
  	Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Native boat, Kongo River Year: 1900 The Kongo, while not so long as the Nile, is greater in volume than any other river in Africa, is greater in volume than the Mississippi, and is second only to the Amazon. It drains a basin as large as half of the United States proper. The river has many tributaries, and its navigable water ways, if stretched out in one line, would reach about halfway around the globe. From its mouth at Matadi, about one hundred miles inland, the Kongo is more like a long lake than a river. It is five or six miles wide, and in many places three hundred feet deep. From Matadi to Stanley Pool, about two hundred miles, there is a series of cataracts; but above that to Stanley Falles are more than one thousand miles of open river, upon which steamboats can travel as well as upon the Mississippi or the lower parts of the Hudson. On the south the head waters of its tributaries are not far from the watershed of the Zambezi; on the north the headwaters come very close to those of Lake ALbert, Lake Victoria and the other headwaters of the Nile. The Kongo River is the only road by which the products of this vast region can get out to the ocean; and some large European trading companies have established factories and warehouses upon its banks. The most valuable product which the Kongo now gives to the world is rubber, after which come palm nuts and palm oil and ivory in the shapre of elephant tusks. Other exports are peanuts and coffee and copal, a gum that is used to make varnish. Tobacco is grown in all the native villages, and it may become an important article of trade. Title: Native boat, Kongo River Year: 1900 The Kongo, while not so long as the Nile, is greater in volume than any other river in Africa, is greater in volume than the Mississippi, and is second only to the Amazon. It drains a basin as large as half of the United States proper. The river has many tributaries, and its navigable water ways, if stretched out in one line, would reach about halfway around the globe. From its mouth at Matadi, about one hundred miles inland, the Kongo is more like a long lake than a river. It is five or six miles wide, and in many places three hundred feet deep. From Matadi to Stanley Pool, about two hundred miles, there is a series of cataracts; but above that to Stanley Falles are more than one thousand miles of open river, upon which steamboats can travel as well as upon the Mississippi or the lower parts of the Hudson. On the south the head waters of its tributaries are not far from the watershed of the Zambezi; on the north the headwaters come very close to those of Lake ALbert, Lake Victoria and the other headwaters of the Nile. The Kongo River is the only road by which the products of this vast region can get out to the ocean; and some large European trading companies have established factories and warehouses upon its banks. The most valuable product which the Kongo now gives to the world is rubber, after which come palm nuts and palm oil and ivory in the shapre of elephant tusks. Other exports are peanuts and coffee and copal, a gum that is used to make varnish. Tobacco is grown in all the native villages, and it may become an important article of trade. Close

• 23. [Image] Coos Bay Lumber Company caboose at Powers, Oregon

  	Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Coos Bay Lumber Company caboose at Powers, Oregon Year: 1935 Title: Coos Bay Lumber Company caboose at Powers, Oregon Year: 1935 Close

• 24. [Image] Coos Bay Lumber Company log drive on the East Fork of the Coquille River

  	This was one of the last log drives in the U.S.
  	Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Coos Bay Lumber Company log drive on the East Fork of the Coquille River Year: 1940 This was one of the last log drives in the U.S. Title: Coos Bay Lumber Company log drive on the East Fork of the Coquille River Year: 1940 This was one of the last log drives in the U.S. Close

• 25. [Image] Harriman Lodge, Pelican Bay, Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon

  	Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Harriman Lodge, Pelican Bay, Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon Year: 1912 Title: Harriman Lodge, Pelican Bay, Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon Year: 1912 Close

• 26. [Image] Conde B. McCullough Memorial Bridge (North Bend, Oregon); Coos Bay Bridge (North Bend, Oregon)

  	This image is included in Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, a digital collection which provides documentation about the architectural heritage of the Pacific Northwest....
  	Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Conde B. McCullough Memorial Bridge (North Bend, Oregon); Coos Bay Bridge (North Bend, Oregon) Author: McCullough, Conde Balcom; Mercer-Fraser Company Year: 1936 This image is included in Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, a digital collection which provides documentation about the architectural heritage of the Pacific Northwest. Title: Conde B. McCullough Memorial Bridge (North Bend, Oregon); Coos Bay Bridge (North Bend, Oregon) Author: McCullough, Conde Balcom; Mercer-Fraser Company Year: 1936 This image is included in Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, a digital collection which provides documentation about the architectural heritage of the Pacific Northwest. Close

• 27. [Image] Conde B. McCullough Memorial Bridge (North Bend, Oregon); Coos Bay Bridge (North Bend, Oregon)

  	This image is included in Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, a digital collection which provides documentation about the architectural heritage of the Pacific Northwest....
  	Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Conde B. McCullough Memorial Bridge (North Bend, Oregon); Coos Bay Bridge (North Bend, Oregon) Author: Mercer-Fraser Company; McCullough, Conde Balcom Year: 1936 This image is included in Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, a digital collection which provides documentation about the architectural heritage of the Pacific Northwest. Title: Conde B. McCullough Memorial Bridge (North Bend, Oregon); Coos Bay Bridge (North Bend, Oregon) Author: Mercer-Fraser Company; McCullough, Conde Balcom Year: 1936 This image is included in Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, a digital collection which provides documentation about the architectural heritage of the Pacific Northwest. Close

• 28. [Image] Conde B. McCullough Memorial Bridge (North Bend, Oregon); Coos Bay Bridge (North Bend, Oregon)

  	This image is included in Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, a digital collection which provides documentation about the architectural heritage of the Pacific Northwest....
  	Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Conde B. McCullough Memorial Bridge (North Bend, Oregon); Coos Bay Bridge (North Bend, Oregon) Author: McCullough, Conde Balcom; Mercer-Fraser Company Year: 1936 This image is included in Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, a digital collection which provides documentation about the architectural heritage of the Pacific Northwest. Title: Conde B. McCullough Memorial Bridge (North Bend, Oregon); Coos Bay Bridge (North Bend, Oregon) Author: McCullough, Conde Balcom; Mercer-Fraser Company Year: 1936 This image is included in Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, a digital collection which provides documentation about the architectural heritage of the Pacific Northwest. Close

• 29. [Image] Conde B. McCullough Memorial Bridge (North Bend, Oregon); Coos Bay Bridge (North Bend, Oregon)

  	This image is included in Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, a digital collection which provides documentation about the architectural heritage of the Pacific Northwest....
  	Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Conde B. McCullough Memorial Bridge (North Bend, Oregon); Coos Bay Bridge (North Bend, Oregon) Author: McCullough, Conde Balcom; Mercer-Fraser Company Year: 1936 This image is included in Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, a digital collection which provides documentation about the architectural heritage of the Pacific Northwest. Title: Conde B. McCullough Memorial Bridge (North Bend, Oregon); Coos Bay Bridge (North Bend, Oregon) Author: McCullough, Conde Balcom; Mercer-Fraser Company Year: 1936 This image is included in Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, a digital collection which provides documentation about the architectural heritage of the Pacific Northwest. Close

• 30. [Image] Glimpse of Lake Manapouri

  	Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Almost entirely surrounded by mountains, studded with countless wooded islands, and indented with lovely little bays, Manapouri, or perhaps more correctly ...
  	Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Glimpse of Lake Manapouri Year: 1915 Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Almost entirely surrounded by mountains, studded with countless wooded islands, and indented with lovely little bays, Manapouri, or perhaps more correctly manawa-popore - the lake of the "throbbing heart" - is a dream of beauty, a joy forever. This is the deepest lake on South Island, having a depth of 1,460 feet, its bottom being 860 feet below the sea level. " Title: Glimpse of Lake Manapouri Year: 1915 Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Almost entirely surrounded by mountains, studded with countless wooded islands, and indented with lovely little bays, Manapouri, or perhaps more correctly manawa-popore - the lake of the "throbbing heart" - is a dream of beauty, a joy forever. This is the deepest lake on South Island, having a depth of 1,460 feet, its bottom being 860 feet below the sea level. " Close