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Caption included with image; Last tree felled in Camp Gifford clearing area by WPA crews. Standing beside the tree which was felled along the old river highway on a flat midway between the towns of Rice and Daisy are, from left to right: H.M....
2024-11-23
Caption included with image: Two Marcus residents, sitting in the window of the old Marcus School, watching the night burning of a group of old Marcus homes and outbuildings as a part of the clearing operations carried on by the WPA in the Grand...
2024-11-23
On verso of image: End of Kettle Falls Railroad bridge. Kettle Falls, which will be covered by backwater behind Grand Coulee Day in May or June is shown in the distance under the end of the east approach of the new Railroad bridge being...
Caption included with image: WPA cleared lake bottom looking east on Spokane river, near Detillion, showing a part of the Grand Coulee reservoir which WPA crews have cleared of all trash and debris. Water is slowly creeping up the banks of the...

Label on verso: DATE: June 27, 1941; OP 65-2-93-146, Dist. 1; PHOTO BY: Morgan Fitz, Camp Kettle; COUNTY: Stevens; Neg. No. 914; TITLE: Columbia River Reservoir Clearing Project; CAPTION: SPOKANE RIVER VALLEY (About May 15th) LOOKING SOUTH; The...
2024-11-23
daily/weekly periods of low power demand. As daily power demands increase, the flow can be reversed through the pump-turbines and power generated to meet peak demands. Two 50 mw units were placed in operation in 1974, and four more are planned....

Aerial view looking into the upper end of the 12 pumping plant discharge pipe tunnels. Just beyond the tunnel mouths is the pumping plant. The upper combined bends for discharge pipes Nos. 1 and 2 are in position at the bottom of the picture.
1949-06-15
Cells in cluster "G" at point of leak in cofferdam.
1937-03-17
2024-11-23
East Wall of "block 40" steel pile enclosure exposed under bracket trestle carrying conveyor that transported berm-fill between "40" and section "E" of west cofferdam, of which cell in section "D" is shown at extreme right. Mixer on east side...
1936-04-01
2024-11-23
In the distance is the beginning of the west side excavation for the dam. It was the area directly behind this cut that subsequently became involved in the extensive west-side slides. In the foreground is the Seaton Ferry and the Seaton...
1905-04-16
2024-11-23
Columbia River flowing through the two west diversion slots the two near slots closed off and being filled to elevation 950. 54,000 c.f.s.
1937-11-24
2024-11-23
Pennsylvania, transmission network, 6 Pierce, Walter, 32 Pinchot, Gifford, 7 Plutonium, 47, 73 Plutonium production reactor, 72 Pope, James J., 29 Port Angeles, Washington, 6 Portland, Oregon, 16, 33 harbor, (photo), 47 photo, 9...

Jackhammer men drilling weathered bedrock. This view shows rock that underlay the channel of the river, now flowing outside the cofferdam cells and block 40.
2024-04-23
2024-11-23
A form is placed in position for the 12-foot diameter circular cable control gallery at elevation 1060 in the dam.
1939-09-25
2024-11-23
Laminated timber tunnel under plant stock piles at processing plant, Brett gravel pit.
1935-06-30
2024-11-23
Specifications 2329, Morrison-Knudsen So., Inc. and Peter Kiewit Sons' Company. Progress view showing initial construction on the pump discharge outlet structure. On the right can be seen the completed invert of P-1 and P-2 conduits with the...
1949-06-28
Specs # 2329, Contract I2r 18156, Contractor, Morrison-Knudsen Company Inc. and Peter Kiewit Son's Co. View looking north showing progress made on pumping plant including office wing, parking area, gantry crane, and storage building P-9 through...
1950-09-25
Formwork and reinforcement steel for the grouting and drainage gallery along the right abutment of the dam.
1939-09-19
2024-11-23
Wedging "drum" rock in east foundation of dam.
1937-05-18
2024-11-23
Grout tank and pumps for grouting contraction joints.
1936-09-01
2024-11-23
Stiff-leg derricks in place on timber cribs for constructing the 3,000 foot cellular steel piling cofferdam on west side of river.
1934-12-28
2024-11-23
Specifications 2329. Morrison-Knudsen Company, Inc., and Peter Kiewit Sons' Company. Progress view of the pump-discharge outlet structure showing the status of construction of the crest bends of P-1 to P-4 discharge pipes. Pipes P-1 and P-2 have...
1949-09-08
At the controls of the concrete mixing plant. On the chart is recorded the weight of sand, gravel, cement, and water that makes up each batch of concrete. The chart also shows which of the four mixers below received the batch of aggregate, cement,...
1939-11-02
2024-11-23
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