Typed caption on photo: "This is the scene in Seymour Narrows, 120 miles northwest of Vancouver, British Columbia, as the largest non-atomic blast in history sheared the tops off the top of the twin underwater peaks of Ripple Rock, one of the...
Typed on front of photograph: "This house was built by John Gregg [1668/1738] in 1694. This house originally had two stories and the roof sloped back one way against the rocks. He afterwards added another story. Page 362 of 'My Business Career'...
on front of card: "Blue Bird Tourist Court. AAA. 2 Miles East of North Little Rock, On Highways 67-70, "Memphis Highway" Phone 2-9542." on back of card: "Blue Bird Tourist Court - Located 2 miles East of North Little Rock, Ark. on Highway 67-70...
Below Cope's Bridge is a high hill (about 70 feet high) known as Deborah's Rock. Legend is that an Indian maiden jumped from the rock to the Brandywine to escape white man's attention. Historians claim it was named for Abiah Taylor's daughter,...
A view of Deborah's Rock near Cope's Bridge - named either for Abiah Taylor's daughter, who lived nearby, or, as legend says, named for an Indian maiden who jumped from the rock into the Brandywine River.
Typed caption on photo: "F.D. Bickel (left) of the DuPont Company and Jack Buchanan, Northern Construction Company superintendent, study the loading chart of a coyote tunnel in the north pinnacle of Ripple Rock. Shortly thereafter, in the greatest...
Typed caption on photo: "Deep into Ripple Rock, drillers drove a 'Coyote' tunnel which was packed with 2,750,000 pounds of high explosives supplied by DuPont of Canada (1956) Limited. Ripple Rock was located just below the surface in Seymour...
Typed caption: "Long a menace to navigation, Ripple Rock used to lie in Seymour Narrows, above, 120 miles northwest of Vancouver, British Columbia. If the peaks of the rock had been visible they would have appeared directly above the freighter's...
Typed caption: "This is inside the tunnel under Seymour Narrows which extended about 2,400 feet from Maud Island to a point under Ripple Rock, a massive underwater mountain. This age-old peril to navigation was destroyed on April 5, 1958, by the...
Ripple Rock in the Seymour Narrows being exploded. In 1958, it was the largest non atomic explosion intentionally fired anywhere. There was 370,000 tons of rock shattered.
Typed caption on photo: "Deep in Ripple Rock, technical experts of the DuPont Company crimp a water-proof sealer on the end of a detonating cord. The cord detonating at the amazing rate of 20,000 feet per second provided virtually instantaneous...
Typed caption: "A freighter approaches from the north through Seymour Narrows between Vancouver Island and Maud Island, some 120 miles north of Vancouver. Here two underwater peaks, known as Ripple Rock, long a peril to navigation, were blasted...
Table of Contents: A huge rock excavation job; Rayon on dress parade; Gleaming gifts for Christmas; Fifty years of gold mining; Boring through the Cascades; Blasting rock for roads; Kentucky's House of coal; Rayon window draperies; Aid to the...
