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Take-off towers in bay LY-1 of the 17 bay, 230-kilovolt left switchyard formed one end of the fist transmission lines to join Grand Coulee and Bonneville dams. The circuit was temporarily strung to this bay because of a shortage of steel for...
1941-11-18
2024-04-18
A Grand Coulee Dam night view, showing area west of cofferdam in foreground, suspension bridge for Westmix aggregate, highway bridge, Mason City across the river, and Brett gravel pit in upper right.
1936-09-29
2024-04-18
Caption on image: WPA Workers Returning for Dinner After A Hard Day's Clearing In Remote Areas Along the Columbia River.

Caption on verso: Just Above dam

US WPA 449

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Three of the low slots in dam, east of west cofferdam, for passage of river during diversion. Slots are 50 feet wide with floor level at elev. 910.
1936-07-01
2024-04-18
Images of dams and reservoirs in the United States, Italy, France, and Mexico, as well as plans and charts for many of the dams
1968-04-18

2007-01-02
2016-02-26
2007-01-02
2016-02-26
Looking east toward blocks 39 and 40 - part of section "D" west cofferdam, to the right; high trestle on left.
1936-07-01
2024-04-18
Samuel Moment worked as an industry development consultant from 1940 to 1954 for the Bonneville Power Administration and from 1955 to 1995 as a consultant to world organizations. The collection contains documents related to the legal dispute over...

Excavation for block 40, cross-river conveyor trestle at right - crossing over cell cluster "D" of west cofferdam.
1935-09-26
2024-04-18
This is a scene during the operations of moving the steel spans of the old railroad bridge from marcus, Wn. to Coulee Dam in February of 1942. Note the high water mark on the bridge trusses indicating the height to which the water in the...
1942-02-01
2024-04-18
The first aircraft to land on the storage reservoir above the Grand Coulee Dam. The plane, a Fairchild C-24, was piloted by Mr. Alfred Wolf, with Mrs. Wolf as passenger, and was being flown from factory to a customer.
1941-05-30
2024-04-18
Third Volume, Twenty Second 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.
2024-04-18
2024-04-18
Department of the Interior: Bureau of Reclamation Columbia Basin Project - Washington: Grand Coulee Dam Contraction Grouting Longitudinal Joints
1935-07-15
2024-04-18
Department of the Interior: Bureau of Reclamation Columbia Basin Project - Washington: Grand Coulee Dam Contraction Joint Grouting Transverse Joints
1935-07-15
2024-04-18
Department of the Interior: Bureau of Reclamation; Columbia Basin Project-Washington Grand Coulee Dam Government Camp - Three Room Residence Type 2 Floor Plans & Sections
1934-05-29
2024-04-18
The plan adopted to preserve the runs involved trapping the salmon at Rock Island Dam and hauling them alive in special tank trucks to selected streams for release there or to a hatchery, constructed by the Bureau of Reclamation, on the Wenatchee...

Department of the Interior: Bureau of Reclamation; Columbia Basin Project-Washington Grand Coulee Dam Government Camp - Three Room Residence Type 3 Floor Plans & Sections
1934-05-29
2024-04-18
United States Department of the Interior. Bureau of Reclamation. Columbia Basin Project - Washington. Grand Coulee Dam Spillway - Maximum Section. Drawn: C.A.M.25109; Denver, Colo. April 16, 1934. 222-D-309.
1934-04-19
2024-04-18
The Martin F. Seedorf Papers consists of research files pertaining to the history of eastern Washington, with a particular focus on Grant and Douglas Counties. Much of this collection was created to support Seedorf's teaching and research as an...

Concrete placing trestle (1024 elev. from block 33 west; and the 880 and 900 galleries in block 31.
1936-07-01
2024-04-18
Athey 10-yard buggy and Caterpillar bulldozer feeding a tributary conveyor feeder.
1935-03-21
2024-04-18
Bedrock was generally found at elevation 875, or some 60 feet below low water level. The overburden in the river averaged about 30 feet thick, with clay comprising about 90% of the volume; hard as rock when dry and slippery as grease when wet....
2024-04-18
Blocks on east abutment, below Eastmix, April 1, 1937.
2024-04-18
2024-04-18
Excavating for block 40 behind section "E" of west cofferdam. East cofferdam across the river.
1935-12-04
2024-04-18
Richard Lewis Neuberger (1912-1960), an Oregon native, was a U.S. Senator (D-OR) from 1954 to 1960. The Richard Neuberger collection consists of correspondence, legislation, published articles, and newspaper articles which pertain to the literary...

A tight fit. The clearance between the huge 25-foot rotors and the stators of the two 75,000-kilowatt Shasta Dam generators, being installed at Grand Coulee Dam to make additional power available for war industries, is only 5/8 inch. In lowering...
1942-11-28
2024-04-18
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