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Photographer: Courtesy Northwest Room, Spokane Public Library
Caption: Marker detail: Spokane River Falls, circa 1870
Additional Description: The Spokane River is the heart of tribal homeland, culture and sustenance. The Spokane Tribe has always lived along its banks, from Liberty Lake to the river's confluence 100 miles west with the Columbia River and beyond. This image, taken around 1870, is the first known photograph of the Lower Spokane River Falls as they thundered through what is now downtown Spokane.
Submitted: April 20, 2020, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p518137
File Size: 1.364 Megabytes

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