Old and new towns of Marcus, ca. 1940

Caption on image: Air photo of old and new Marcus, looking northward. At a point above the southern part of old Marcus, the evacuating town is seen below the bench on which new Marcus is developing. Long street in center is Main street. Low long...

Tractor clearing a pile of logs, ca. 1940

Original image cut for probable newspaper publication.

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Camp Detillion, looking east toward the cleared Spokane River valley, 1941.

Label on verso: DATE: June 27th, 1941, OP 65-2-93-146, Dist. 1 PHOTO BY: Morgan Fitz, Camp Kettle COUNTY: Stevens; Neg. No. 911; Title: Columbia River...

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Workers at the movies, ca. 1940

[Grand Coulee Dam 254]

Paul Bunyan -- Te towing Camp Ferry on the Columbia River, ca. 1940

Caption on verso: US WPA 550, moving Camp Ferry from first site

[Grand Coulee Dam 49]

Machinery at the Grand Coulee construction site with snow on ground, ca. 1933-1941

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Gravel and water trucks with earth mover vicinity of the Grand Coulee construction...

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Man supervising water truck, Grand Coulee Dam construction operations, ca. 1933-1941

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Prefabricated housing being assembled at worker camp and electrical poles being readied...

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Night view of work on Grand Coulee Dam construction site, 1935

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Excavation work on the west side at the Grand Coulee Dam site, 1935

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Why develop more power, why irrigate more land?

"Excerpt from an address by Frank A. Banks, District Manager, Bureau of Reclamation to the Washington Public Utility District Commissioners' Association, Coulee Dam, Washington, May 26, 1945"

Grand Coulee and the Pacific Northwest
Grand Coulee Dam and a last frontier

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Write letters east

Airplane carrying visitors to dam site for National Airmail Week, May 19, 1938

Airplane is a Beech Model 17

Album leaf 331: Airplace, 5/19/38

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Shaft of generating unit, interior of power plant at the Grand Coulee Dam, ca. 1951

Central tower of the suspension bridge of the sand and gravel conveyor, Grand Coulee...

Album leaf 302: Spanning tower, 4/8/38

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt's visit to the Grand Coulee Dam construction site,...

Album leaf 166: Presidential (F.D.R.) visit, 10/2/37

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Tugboats NESPELEM and WELLPINIT under construction at the Camp Spokane shipyard on the...

On verso of image: The W.P.A. tugboats "Nespelem" and "Wellpinit" under construction at the Camp Spokane shipyard on the Spokane River. May 27, 1940

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Workers erecting steel beams, Grand Coulee Dam construction site, July 26, 1938

Album leaf 408: Three men on top of beams, 7/28/1938

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Area view, January 4, 1934

Album leaf 2: Area view, 1/4/34

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West cofferdam, Grand Coulee Dam site, March 31, 1935

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

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Rock quarry, Grand Coulee Dam site, ca. 1934

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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Governor Clarence D. Martin formally placing first concrete in dam, December 6, 1935

Note on album leaf: Gov. Clarence D. Martin formally placing first concrete in dam, Dec. 6, 1935

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Mr. & Mrs. Smythe of Kettle Falls, 1939.

See Photo No. [274]

Negative No. C-334; US WPA 566

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