Library receives grant to expand photo collection

St. Ignatius Hospital, 1907 postcard from the personal collection of Patrick McDonald, Whitman County Library’s Rural Heritage Collection.

Right, Claiborne “Peg-Leg” Kenedy, Palouse postmaster at the turn of the century who suffered a “woods accident.” To save his life, Kenedy’s leg was amputated just below the knee without benefit of either physician or anesthetic. From the collection of Bob West, Roy Chatters Newspaper and Printing Museum and Whitman County Library’s Rural Heritage Collection.

Whitman County Library has received a $8,870 grant from the Institute for Museums and Libraries to...