Dam Brothers Papers 1910-1936

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Dam Brothers Papers 1910-1936

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv39684

Reports, record books, scrapbooks, photographs and correspondence related to the Dam Brothers' involvement in the Priest Rapids Dam and irrigation project; also unrelated photographs depicting Native Americans, mostly Plateau Indians.

6 boxes, 2.5 cubic feet; 72 glass plate negatives

eng,

Museum of History & Industry Sophie Frye Bass Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6371124

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Curtis and Miller

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Dam, Everett Stephen, 1885-

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Dam, Milton Emory, 1886-1969

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Webster and Stevens

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Webster & Stevens

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Asahel Curtis

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Harris & Ewing

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Dam Brothers

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Everett Steven (b. 1885) and Milton Emery (1886-1969) Dam were two of three sons of Alton S. Dam, one of the early proponents of irrigation development in Washington State. Milton and Everett Dam received business training in Seattle and established the Dam Brothers brokerage firm there. In addition to their brokerage business, the two brothers spent more than two decades promoting the construction of a large hydroelectric dam at Priest Rapids. Their older brother Oscar (b. 1883) graduated from ...