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Caption included with image: Old Marcus homes and outbuildings, purchased by the Bureau of Reclamation and turned over to the WPA for demolition, are shown going up in flames as the town is cleared to receive backwater of the Columbia River now...
2024-11-23
Label on verso: DATE: June 27, 1941; OP65-293-146, Dist. 1 PHOTO BY: Morgan Fitz, Camp Kettle COUNTY: Stevens; Neg. No. 905; TITLE: Columbia River Reservoir Clearing Proj. CAPTION: COLVILLE RIVER OUTLET (June 23, 1941)...
2024-11-23
Caption on verso: Clearing reservoir area above Grand Coulee Dam. Burning brush and tree limbs. Nov. 21, 1939.

US WPA 631

[Grand Coulee Dam 133]
2024-11-23
Caption on image: "There will always be a Marcus", F.E. "Sunny" Horn, Mayor of Marcus since 1932, wants you to know. He points to the town's new site on a bench well above high water mark of the lake being formed behind Grand Coulee dam on which...

Caption included with image: Moving Inchelium High School gymnasium. Cut in sections and loaded on dollies the Inchelium High School gymnasium, last building to be removed in the old town, is shown on the road leading out of the old town and up to...

Caption included with image: "Rising backwater of the Columbia river behind Grand Coulee Dam is seen entering Oropothem creek. View looking north and upriver. The Gerome ferry, seen moored in the creek's outlet, will continue in service as rising...

Caption on image: WPA Preparing Marcus house for burning. While a WPA clearing crew in the background works about a house in too poor condition for moving or salvage which was purchased by the Bureau of Reclamation and later turned over to the WPA...
2024-11-23
Label on verso: DATE: June 27th, 1941; OP 65-2-93-146; Dist. 1; PHOTO BY: Morgan Fitz, Camp Kettle; COUNTY: Stevens; Neg. No. 902; Title: Columbia river reservoir clear. Prog. CAPTION: Columbia River valley from point one mile south of Rice (May...
2024-11-23
Area 3 includes all tributaries entering the Columbia on the north and west sides from the Klickitat River to Grand Coulee Dam, and the few tributaries entering from the east and south sides between the Snake River and Grand Coulee Dam
2024-11-23
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE April 9 Mr. NEUBERGER. . T h e Senator is t oo generous in his description of the Secretary's action. Not only did the Secretary of the Interior intervene in the Hells Canyon fight, taut he actually intervened on the...
2008-11-01
Label on verso: DATE: June 27, 1941, OP 65-2-93-146, Dist. 1; PHOTO BY: Morgan Fitz, Camp Kettle; COUNTY: Stevens; Neg. No. 903; TITLE: Columbia River Reservoir Clearing Project; CAPTION: SPOKANE RIVER VALLEY, (About May 15th) LOOKING NORTH The...
2024-11-23
Grand Coulee Pumping Plant. The first pumped-storage generation in the Pacific Northwest has been developed at the Bureau of Reclamation's Grand Coulee Project in Washington, where reversible pump-turbines are being installed in the existing...

View of the Napoleon Bridge, taken from the left bank of the Kettle River, 300' upstream from the bridge site. The bridge spans were shifted from the old piers to higher concrete piers.
1942-04-23
2024-11-23
View looking west in the 230-kv. switchyard. General Electric 8-cycle, 230-kv., 2 1/2 million kv.-a. pneumatically operated oil circuit breakers are shown.
1942-09-16
2024-11-23
New Bureau of Reclamation concrete mixer under construction near sand waste pile. The black box at the top of the building is a three-compartment aggregate storage bin. A cement shed will be constructed behind the building.
1942-10-21
2024-11-23
View over the east powerhouse from the mixing plant. Concrete transfer skipway in the foreground.
1942-08-07
2024-11-23
Take-off towers on left powerhouse roof for transformer circuits from units L-1, L-2, L-3. A temporary 115,000-volt Bonneville tie-in line from the station service units is connected to the tower on the left. The tower at the right is nearing...
1941-04-18
2024-11-23
Peak flow of the annual flood stage of the Columbia River is discharged over the dam in special diversion channels.
1940-05-29
2024-11-23
Installation in progress on the draft tube lining for the 150,000 hp. turbine at unit L-3 of the left powerhouse. In place at the top of the draft tube is the supporting spider which will be removed when the installation is completed.
1940-10-24
2024-11-23
A big pump inlet pipe is lowered to temporary timber cribbing. When the pipe is blocked to final line and grade, steel struts and ties will replace timber cribbing.
1940-02-12
2024-11-23
The 5,500 g.p.m. atmospheric, deck-type cooling tower erected at Coulee Dam to expedite the cooling of the concrete.
1940-11-12
2024-11-23
Construction is started on the trashrack structures for the main unit penstocks. The steel falsework supports the wooden forms.
1938-09-27
2024-11-23
The large Fuller Kinyon cement unloading machine. Bulk cement is received in box cars, and is rapidly unloaded to the cement storage silos by means of this machine.
1938-12-30
2024-11-23
The top section of the dismantled central tower of the cross-river aggregate conveyor suspension bridge falls to the ground
1938-03-29
2024-11-23
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