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Caption included with image: One of the first of early settler's houses in the path of the WPA clearing project crew, near Camp Lincoln. All stumps, unsaleable trees and other combustible debres is (editor's correction: are) burned as the WPA...
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On verso of image: Downstream face of Grand Coulee Dam during repair operations being done by the Pacific Bridge Company ... At the far end of the spillway, damaged concrete areas at "slip joints" are being excavated and then refilled with new...
2024-05-02
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Printed on image: Leo's Studio, Spokane
PH Coll 809.12a |
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This aerial view of the dam site was taken on April 21, 1940. This scene may give a clearer understanding of how the Grand Coulee canyon was carved in the great lava bed when the ice sheet blocked the course of the Columbia River a few miles...
1940-04-21
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Department of the Interior: Bureau of Reclamation; Columbia Basin Project, Wash. Grand Coulee Dam Cofferdam Layout
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United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation Columbia Basin Project - Grand Coulee Power Plant
1937-10-14
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This is Kettle Falls of the Columbia, 41 miles below the Canadian border and 705 miles from the Pacific Ocean. In the background can be seen a point of the sharp, rock island, around which the river poured in a beautiful cascade of falls. Here...
2024-05-02
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Third Volume, Thirty Third issue, of the Mason-Walsh-Atkinson-Kier CO. builders of Coulee Dam Safety Newsletter. Created by the Safety Department and issued to the residents of Mason City and contract workers at Grand Coulee Dam.
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In its length of 151 miles the Columbia River Reservoir, now called Lake Roosevelt, has a little over 500 miles of shoreline, ranging from sheer granite and basalt cliffs to shifting sand banks and wooded mountain slopes. Dr. C. E. Magnusson,...
2024-05-02
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I have chosen this as a character portrait exemplifying the typical "construction stiff" of Grand Coulee Dam." These construction men, rough and hearty, with toil-seamed faces and calloused hands, are the colorful characters of this era.
2024-05-02
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Third Volume, Thirty Ninth issue, of the Mason-Walsh-Atkinson-Kier CO. builders of Coulee Dam Safety Newsletter. Created by the Safety Department and issued to the residents of Mason City and contract workers at Grand Coulee Dam.
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Same photograph as item 1
PH Coll 809.42 |
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt being shown the points of interest by Mr. F. A. Banks, Construction Engineer, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, on the occasion of the President's second visit to Grand Coulee Dam, on Oct. 2, 1937. At that time the...
1937-10-02
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irrigated orchard 60 miles into the wooded mountains, which rise precipitously about 7,000 feet above its head.
Several developed sites are available to winter sports enthusiasts. One, nationally known for its high ski jump, is at Leavenworth in...
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Caption included with image: Caterpillar tractors used by WPA in clearing the Grand Coulee reservoir are shown lined up for service beside the old Highway # 22 on the flat midway between the towns of Daisy and Rice, during final clearing...
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utilities in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. Its purpose is to assure that all major hydroelectric projects in the region, including Canadian storage, operate at maximum efficiency.
For more than 20 years the parties to the Coordination Agreement,...
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Setting on the powerhouse floor at El. 991, between generators L-2 and L-3, steel plates on which to assemble the stator of Shasta generator.
1942-06-26
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The right powerhouse nearing completion. The control bay remains to be added. Plyboard coverings have been placed over the 40' x 17' windows. The elevation of the river is 938.12, and the flow over the spillway, 41,000 c.f.s.
1942-11-05
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Coaster-gate crane unloading plate girders from dismantled CBI trestle, on the ready way to the dam, for sandblasting and alteration. They were used in place of trusses in the East Powerhouse roof.
1942-07-17
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