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Department of the Interior: Bureau of Reclamation Columbia Basin Project - Washington: Grand Coulee Dam-Government Camp: Garage and Fire Station Plan and Longitudinal Sections
1935-01-31
2024-11-23
Part of the official party at the opening of the U. S. Construction Railroad celebration, left to right: Governor C. D. Martin, locomotive engineer; Mr. Francis Donaldson, Chief Engineer, M.W.A.K. Company; Mr. J. I. Dinman, President Spokane...
1935-07-29
2024-11-23
Preparing to build east pier for highway bridge below dam site.
1934-05-24
2024-11-23
Camp Keller. This camp was located on the right bank of the Columbia about 2-1/2 miles above the dam.

Caption on image: San Poil or Keller ferry

[Grand Coulee Dam 7]

Label on verso: "Work Projects Administration, M-9; State of Washington, 8-23-40, Zone #3, Stevens [County], Kettle Falls, Neg. 672; Coulee Clearance, Lined up here are the personel...
2024-11-23
Here stands two of the five largest recesses in the frowning scarp of Dry Falls, over whose three and a half mile brink roared and thundered one of the greatest water falls of all geological history. It was three times as wide as the greatest...
2024-11-23
Panoramic view of the Grand Coulee site. Both banks are visible, as are excavation operations and employee housing.
1935-08-02
Submitted May 25, 1932 by Roy R. Gill
2024-11-23
Album leaf 32: Area view, 7/22/35

PH Coll 238.32
2024-11-23
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: Kettle Falls; Neg. 682; Title: Coulee Clearance; Caption: Blasting Stumps across river from...
2024-11-23
Caption on image: Felling tree, across river from Camp Gifford Caught half-way in descent, this Yellow Pine is being felled at approximately the 1250 foot level. Trees in background are above high water of the rising Coulee Lake

[Grand...
2024-11-23
Label on image: COLUMBIA RIVER BASIN CLEARING PROJECT: Camp Kettle, near Kettle Falls, where 525 of the 2,200 WPA workers on the Coulee reservoir clearing project are now quartered. It is the largest of six camps housing the crews operating on the...

A distant view of Grand Coulee Dam showing the employee housing along the Columbia River, in Grand Coulee, Washington April 21, 1940.
1940-04-21
Panoramic view of the Grand Coulee site. Both banks are visible, as are excavation operations and employee housing.
1935-08-02
Although this truck alone weighs almost 60,000 pounds, it's not uncommon for one or two huge granite armor rocks to lift the front wheels clear of the ground. A dozer, blade visible at left, solved the truck drivers dilemma in this problem. The...
1950-07-11
use of Columbia hydropower, introduced the first bill in Congress which proposed procedures for marketing Bonneville electricity. His legislation would have created a Columbia Valley Authority, patterned after the Tennessee Valley Authority. This...

Caption on verso: Gerome Camp Camp Gerome was located on the left bank of the Columbia 61-1/2 miles above the dam and near the old town of Gerome. Built originally as a 375-man its capacity was increased by the addition of tents to...

Camp Gerome was located on the left bank of the Columbia 61-1/2 miles above the dam and near the old town of Gerome

[Grand Coulee Dam 4]

Label on verso: WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION, M-9; STATE OF WASHINGTON; Date 11/26/40; O.P. No. 65-2-93-146; Zone 1 ; County: Stevens; City: Neg. C-756; Title: Columbia Basin Clearing Project; Caption: Camp Ferry workers disembark at...
2024-11-23
Department of the Interior: Bureau of Reclamation Columbia Basin Project - Washington: Grand Coulee Dam-Government Camp: North Dormitory Floor Plans
1934-11-15
2024-11-23
Label on verso: "WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION, M-9 STATE OF WASHINGTON; Date 8-30-40; O.P. No. ; Zone #3; County: Stevens; City: Kettle Falls; Neg. 681;Title: Coulee Clearance; Caption: Unloading dynamite across river from camp Gifford. Dynamite...
2024-11-23
This is a part of the Hartline Basin as viewed from the western scarp of the Grand Coulee." As the glacial floods roared southward and plunged over the monocline fold into the Hartline Structural Depression, formed buy the fold seen this side of...
2024-11-23
to the vast areas of mountain wilderness and sagebrush desert which are virtually uninhabited. Much the greater part of the basin has a sparse population; concentrations are limited to scattered areas. The average population density of 10 persons...

Document: Congressional Record, "What's This About Flooding Out the Grand Canyon," Morris K. Udall, September 15, 1965, page 2
1965-09-15

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