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Camp Gifford, second-largest of the six WPA cantonments, 1940.
University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Camp Gifford, second-largest of the six WPA cantonments, 1940. |
| Creator | Unknown |
| Date | 1940 |
| Description | Caption included with image: July 23, 1940. Camp Gifford, second largest of six WPA cantonments housing the WPA clearing crews on the upper Columbia and adjacent waters of tributary streams. This recently completed camp now accommodates 510 of the 2,200 WPA workers on the big Coulee dam reservoir clearing project. By next summer this region will be entirely cleared, the camp removed and the Coulee reservoir will have permanently inundated the area, according to scheduled plans.... |
| Subject | Construction camps--Washington (State) Camp Gifford (Wash.) |
| Coverage | United States--Washington (State)--Camp Gifford |
| 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,29 |
