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Note on album leaf: Builders quarters, government camp in foreground, contractors camp across the river, 1936
PH Coll 239.12
2024-05-03
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Note on album leaf: The bucket. Downstream face of spillway with powerhouse foundation beyond.
PH Coll 239.40 |
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Note on album leaf: Grand Coulee Dam site, looking east, December 1933<br><br>PH Coll 239.6
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Note on album leaf: Grand Coulee Dam site, looking west, December 1933.
In the vicinity of Seaton's Ferry. PH Coll 239.4
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Note on album leaf: Evacuating behind West cofferdam. August, 1935
PH Coll 239.17
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Note on album leaf: Source of supply for the eleven million yards of sand and gravel required for Grand Coulee Dam
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Note on album leaf: Facilities for visitors. Some 200,000 visitors in 1936 inspected a model of the dam and from sheltered seats close to the work on each side of the river viewed the construction work and had it explained over a public address...
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Note on album leaf: Cooling pipe. Water will be circulated through 2000 miles of it embedded in the dam to cool and shrink concrete and thus facilitate grouting of contraction joints.
PH Coll 239.32 |
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Note on album leaf: A "House of Magic", one of two concrete mixing plants. Capacity 8,000 cubic yards per day each.
PH Coll 239.31 |
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On verso of image: End of Kettle Falls Railroad bridge. Kettle Falls, which will be covered by backwater behind Grand Coulee Day in May or June is shown in the distance under the end of the east approach of the new Railroad bridge being...
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View from the Kettle Falls railroad bridge.
[Grand Coulee Dam 398] |
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Note on album leaf: Concrete in dam, June 1936. One millionth yard placed. Aug. 14, 1936.
PH Coll 239.22
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Note on album leaf: Concrete placing. January 1936. Top of dam 280 ft. above high trestle deck.
PH Coll 239.21
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Note on album leaf: West cofferdam, March 31, 1935. Length 3,000 ft., ht. 115 ft., over 17,000 tons steel piling, constructed in ninety days.<br><br>PH Coll 239.14
2024-05-03
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Note on album leaf: Deepest foundation depression. Ice dam restraining muck from flowing into pit.
PH Coll 239.35 |
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Note on album leaf: The checkerboard. The pouring of concrete into interlocking blocks permits grouting of contraction joints to form monolithic mass.
PH Coll 239.38 |
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Album leaf 1: Area view, 1/4/34.
In the vicinity of Seaton's Ferry. PH Coll 238.1
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Album leaf 10: Panorama, 4/20/34<br><br>PH Coll 238.10
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Album leaf 12: Area view 4/18/34
PH Coll 238.12
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Album leaf 141: Dam site at night 8/37<br><br>PH Coll 238.141
2024-05-03
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Album leaf 289: Diver 1/7/38
PH Coll 238.289
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Album leaf 290: Diver, 1/7/38
PH Coll 238.290
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Album leaf 291: Diver, 1/7/38
PH Coll 238.291
2024-05-03
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