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Gold Dredge on the Snake River late 19th century (maybe 1880).
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A 1910 Sage Field in the Snake River Valley of Idaho.
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An Irrigation Facility about 1900. In the 1880's Lovecraft's Grandfathe had a company - The Owyhee Land and Irrigation Company - capitalizing on impending statehood.
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This card, confirmed to have been sent in 1909 of a scene taking years earlier, but still dating a generation after Lovecraft's Grandfather's dealings there. It gives a little flavor, thouhh, of the landscape.
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