23-year's battle for Grand Coulee Dam

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Group photo of portion of the crew working on the Grand Coulee Dam construction, 1938

Album leaf 144: Men with cars in town

PH Coll 238.144

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Grand Coulee Dam site looking downstream, April 18, 1934

Album leaf 12: Area view 4/18/34

PH Coll 238.12

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Camp Ferry, ca. 1940.

Caption on verso: Camp Ferry

[Grand Coulee Dam 225]

Camp Ferry crew on their way to lunch, 1939.

Label on verso: US WPA 542 WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION M-9; STATE OF WASHINGTON; Date taken: April 19, 1939; Zone; County; City; Title: Columbia River Clearance Project; Descriptive Caption: "Camp...

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Crew lines up for lunch, 1940

In a grove near the blasting operations across the river from Camp Gifford, the crew lines up for lunch.

[Grand Coulee Dam 73a]

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Lunch hour in the field, Camp Kettle, ca. 1941

Caption on image: Lunch hour in the field, Camp Kettle

[Grand Coulee Dam 74a]

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.

[Grand Coulee Dam 109]

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]

[Grand Coulee Dam 336]

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

[Grand Coulee Dam 262]

Bonneville and Grand Coulee-Keystone of Northwest Hydropower

2 Bonneville and Grand Coulee. Keystone of Northwest Hydropower With the beginning of the Great Ice Age, about one million years ago, huge glaciers—massive sheets of moving ice—spread south out of Canada across much of central and...

Penstock Transportation

An 18-ft. diameter penstock section is hauled via railroad car from the fabrication plant at Electric City to the dam.

1938-10-12
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Closure Gate Construction

Constructing a closure gate, on east upstream shore, to be floated in place for slot in a low block in diversion channel.

1937-09-22
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River Diversion Channels

One of four concrete blocks in dam left low (elevation 910) for passage of river during diversion next year. Blocks are 50 feet wide.

1936-11-01
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Tie-Rods Between Timber Cribs

Tie-rods between timber cribs and interlocking steel piles in downstream cross-river cofferdam.

1936-12-07
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Photograph of Government and Contractor Camp Facilities.

Site of Government Camp in foreground. North portion of contractor's camp across the river - air-port in the distance.

1934-06-27
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Cement Storage Silos

About 48,000 car loads of bulk cement, made from almost 3 million tons of limestone, were stored in these 5,200 barrel silos, and then blended in the two at the right. By noting the deflection of the bottom of these tanks, on a calibrated scale,...

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Tie-Rods Between Timber Cribs

Tie-rods between timber cribs and interlocking steel piles in downstream cross-river cofferdam.

1936-12-07
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Downstream Cross-River Cofferdam Construction

Placing downstream cross-river cofferdam cribs and removing sections "H" and "I" of west coffer. Diversion channels flooded. Contractor's camp (Mason City) in the distance.

1936-11-20
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Construction of pipelines, syphons and tunnels--South Coulee Dam, Main Canal Headworks...

South Coulee Dam--Main Canal Headworks--View taken from bank above west outlet transition wall looking east and upstream at the downstream end of a section of the barrels.

1948-07-15

Barge Construction (cont.

Floating one of nine barges constructed on the east side of river early in the summer, 1936.

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