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WPA workers returning to camp with a newsreel photographer recording the scene during the Grand Coulee Dam construction, ca. 1940

University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections

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Title WPA workers returning to camp with a newsreel photographer recording the scene during the Grand Coulee Dam construction, ca. 1940
Creator Unknown
Date ca. 1940
Description Caption on image: WPA Workers Returning for Dinner After A Hard Day's Clearing In Remote Areas Along the Columbia River.

Caption on verso: Just Above dam

US WPA 449

Please return to Works Progress Administration Information Service 208 Alaska Bldg Seattle

[Grand Coulee Dam 253]
Subject United States. Work Projects Administration--People--Washington (State) Dams--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee (Coulee)--Design and construction; Automobiles--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Construction workers--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Photojournalists--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.); Columbia River
Coverage United States--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
Relation Grand Coulee Dam Collection
Source University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division Grand Coulee Dam Photograph Collection. PH Coll 478
Type Photograph
Format silver gelatin, b&w Scanned from a photographic print at 100 dpi in JPEG format and resized to 768x512 ppi or scanned from original text at 400 dpi in JPEG format and resized to 600 ppi horizontal. Saved at compression rate 3. 2000.
Identifier http://content.lib.washington.edu/u?/grandcoulee,14

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