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Postcard shows a bird's eye view of Colfax from the south hill. In foreground, from left to right, are St. Patrick's Church, St. John's Academy and St. Ignatius Hospital. The photo was taken before 1959 when the old St. Patrick's Church was torn down and replaced with the current church building. The Whitman County Courthouse is in the distance. It was torn down in the spring of 1957. Note: On the back of the postcard is printed, "Colfax, Washington, in the heart of the Palouse wheat country, founded in 1872, was eastern Washington's first city. The town was named for U.S. Vice President Skyler Colfax."</div>
This file was contributed to Wikimedia Commons by <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q69494133" class="extiw" title="d:Q69494133"><span title="public library system in Washington, USA">Whitman County Library</span></a> as part of a cooperation project. The donation was facilitated by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Public_Library_of_America" class="extiw" title="w:Digital Public Library of America">Digital Public Library of America</a>, via its partner Northwest Digital Heritage.<span style="text-align:left">
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<li>DPLA identifier: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dp.la/item/89ca5dca2d3f9963e4607db72fa109a5">89ca5dca2d3f9963e4607db72fa109a5</a></li>
<li>Whitman County Library identifier: WCLMD0095</li></ul></span>