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

PH Coll 239.20
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Caption included with image: July 23, 1940. Camp Gifford, second largest of six WPA cantonments housing the WPA clearing crews on the upper Columbia and adjacent waters of tributary streams. This recently completed camp now accommodates 510 of the...
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Caption included with image: "MARCUS MOVES" -- The old home of Mrs. Sarah A. Nagel, a Marcus resident for 33 years, will soon be moved to higher ground. Miss Celestine Nagel seen reading to her Mother. The steady rising waters of the Columbia,...
2024-11-23
A floating camp was used in clearing inaccessible areas of the reservoir. This camp, and those on land were fitted with all the comforts and modern facilities available. The peak of employment on the clearing operations was approximately 2,600...
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Mr. A. F. Darland began work with the Bureau of Reclamation at Grand Coulee Dam as Field Engineer on April 17, 1934. On Dec. 1, 1939 he was promoted to Construction Engineer. On May 15, 1945 he resigned from the position of Acting Supervising...
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Third Volume, Forty 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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Postmaster General Farley, Congressman Leavy, and Spokane Postmaster Simpson - on the General's visit to the project, October 14, 1937, at entrance of the Coulee Dam post office.
1937-10-14
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Third Volume, Forty 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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ture proposed primarily for power production on the Columbia below Coulee Dam. About 13,600 acres of the land lie in the lower reaches of the Okanogan Valley. The plan to serve that area involves a canal leading from the Foster Creek Dam several...

Label on verso: WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION, M-9; STATE OF WASHINGTON; Date: 8-30-40; O.P. No. WP 3570; Zone #3; County: Stevens; City; Neg. 686; Title: Coulee Clearance; Caption: Blasting stumps across river from Camp Gifford. Timber on right...
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Speech on the achievements of the Bureau of Reclamation at Grand Coulee Dam's third powerhouse dedication
1975-10-11
2007-01-02
2007-01-02
Table of Contents and selected material from volume eight of the Columbia Basin History Project for the Grand Coulee Dam
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Prologue Chapter 1 — Evolution of the Nation's Electric Power Systems Avery, Mary W. Washington —A History of the Evergreen State. Seattle: U. of Washington Press, 1965. Bessey, Roy F. Pacific Northwest Regional...

This is a full-operating model of the floating caisson barge used to repair the spillway bucket. The walls of the work chamber are shaped to fit the contour of the bucket, and are equipped with wide rubber seals. After being floated into...
2024-11-23
Col. Basin Proj., Grand Coulee Dam.--Lowering the turbine runner for the No. 1 Shasta Dam generator, of 75,000 kw. Capacity, moved to Grand Coulee Dam with another machine of like size to expedite delivery of new power to Pacific Coast war...
1942-10-15
On verso of image: 10/21/47
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This plastic model of the caisson barge was the experimental forerunner of the full-working model. From its study and experiments come not only the information for design data, but knowledge of its behavior in the bucket and plans for operations...
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Grand Coulee Seismograph Station. Time Control. From left to right: 1. The 115 kilocycle receiver attuned to NPG, San Francisco, with telechron timing clock for turning the received on and off, for the automatic reception of long wave radio time...
1942-09-16
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Caption on image: Sydney W. Wurzburg and his clerk, Margaret Miller, look down Marcus' main street which will be but a memory after backwater of the Columbia river behind Grand Coulee dam floods the town site. Mr. Wurzburg plans to go on a...
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Label on verso: Date: June 27, 1941 OP 65-2-93-146, Dist. 1; PHOTO BY: Morgan Fitz, Camp Kettle; COUNTY: Stevens; Neg. No. 909; Title: Columbia River Reservour (sic) Clear. Prog. Caption: Completed Reservour (sic) lake bed half-mile south of...
2024-11-23
Caption included with image: The Little Falls hydroelectric plant of the Washington Water Power Company at Little Falls is the approximate up-river boundary of WPA clearing operations of WPA crews toward Camp Little Falls. The reservoir along the...

Source PI-6, 16, 20, 21, 60 SI-26, 77, 78, 81 F-1 WI-17, 28, 39, 52 F-17 Tentative Disposition E PI-96 E F-17 Problem or Area of Concern 10. The feasibility of reestablishing migratory fish runs past high dams such as Hells...

Caption included with image: The last tree to be felled in the Camp Gifford area was this yellow pine which was once located in a densely forested area along the old river highway between the towns of Rice and Daisy. WPA officials and others came...
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