Sawing a Yellow Pine across the river from Camp Gifford, 1940.

Label on verso: US WPA 661 WORKS PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION STATE OF WASHINGTON; Date 10-9-40; O.P. No.; Zone 1; County: Stevens; City; Neg. C-703; Title: Columbia Basin Clearing Project; Caption: Sawing, felling trees, across river...

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Old bridge on the Columbia River near Kettle Falls, Washington, June 6, 1940

Label on verso: WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION, M-9; STATE OF WASHINGTON; Date: 6-6-40; OP No.; Zone 1; County: Stevens; City: Kettle Falls; Neg. C-586-A; Title: Columbia River Resrvoir Clearing Project; Caption: Bridge across the Columbia River...

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Clearing project logs at the mill, ca. 1940.

Original image cut into circular shape for probable newspaper publication.

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Logging in Oropothem Creek--Rigging, 1940

Label on verso: WORKS PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION, M-9; STATE OF WASHINGTON; Date 9-12-40: O.P. No.; Zone 3; Photo by: Morgan Fitz; County: Stevens; City: Kettle; Neg. Title: Columbia Basin Clearing Project; Caption: Logging in...

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Nee Bridge, Spokane River, ca. 1941

Caption on image: Pictures of Nee bridge covered by water. Mouth of Spokane R.

See photograph no. [334]

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Wurzburg's Hardware in old Marcus, 1941.

Caption included with image: "MARCUS MOVES" -- Bargain sales are the order of the day in Marcus. WPA workers will demolish and burn all buildings left standing before the water reaches this area sometime in June. Here we see Sidney W. Worzberg,...

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Site of the former town of Peach, near Hawk Creek, ca. 1941

Caption on image: Toward Hawk creek, showing site of former town of Peach, now inundated

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Columbia Basin Irrigation Project : all the facts to August, 1930

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Grand Coulee Dam site panorama, April 20, 1934

Album leaf 10: Panorama, 4/20/34<br><br>PH Coll 238.10

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View from railroad bridge at Kettle Falls, ca. 1942

View from the Kettle Falls railroad bridge.

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Camp Ferry, ca. 1941.

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Abandoned building in the cleared area, ca. 1941.

Caption on verso: US WPA 579

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Winter view of Hell Gate in the Columbia River basin, Washington, ca. 1940

Caption on verso: Hell Gate

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In the infirmary, Camp Lincoln, May 17, 1939

Label on verso: WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION, M-9 STATE OF WASHINGTON; Date taken: May 17th, 1939; Zone; County; City; Title: COLUMBIA RIVER CLEARANCE PROJECT. Descriptive Caption: View of Ward in Infirmary at Camp Lincoln with patient...

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Old and new Marcus town sites, 1941.

Label on verso: June 27, 19411 (sic); OP65-2-93-146; Dist. 1. Stevens Camp Kettle; Columbia River Reservoir Clearing Project. Neg. No. 916; AIR VIEW OF OLD AND NEW MARCUS TOWN SITES ****CLOSE UP VIEW. (June 23, 1941) All that is left of...

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Marcus railroad yard restaurant , March 20, 1941.

Caption included with image: 'MARCUS MOVES"-- WPA clearing oprations have reached the historic town of Marcus. One of the last meals served in the Marcus railroad yard restaurant by James Mullen and his wife before closing the doors for the last...

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dam scoffed at the plan. A midwestern paper said, "The Grand Coulee Dam will be no more self-liquidating than the Great Pyramid it so humbles in size." And, an Eastern Congressman declared, "Grand Coulee is a vast area of gloomy tablelands...

Grand Coulee Dam site looking west, January 4, 1934

Album leaf 1: Area view, 1/4/34.

In the vicinity of Seaton's Ferry.

PH Coll 238.1

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Camp Ferry, ca. 1941

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Unique moving job involving removal of second story of a house, Marcus, 1941.

Caption on image: One of the most unique moving jobs in Marcus is the removal of the second story of the former Leon Qurzburg home to Colville. Concrete block walls and the partitions of the lower floor will be removed to allow the entire upper...

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Old and new bridges near old Kettle Falls, Washington, April 26, 1941.

Label on verso: WORKS PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION, M-9; STATE OF WASHINGTON; Date: 4/26/41; OP No. 65-2-93-146; Zone 1; County: Stevens; City; Neg. C-841; Title: Columbia Basin Clearing Project; Caption: Seen at the lower left is the old highway...

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Camp Ferry, ca. 1941.

Camp Ferry. Originally two barges, 24 feet by 64 feet with two story superstructures, this floating "camp" was used at four different sites along the Columbia River.

Caption on verso: Camp Ferry

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Floating saleable timber downstream, ca. 1939.

Original image cut for probable newspaper publication.

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Ferry NESPELEM, probably on the Spokane River, ca. 1940.

The tug Nespelem and a barge carrying workers for land clearing activities. Probably the Spokane River

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Spokane Narrows, ca. 1940.

Caption on verso: Spokane Narrows

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