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View of old and new Marcus, Washington, ca. 1941

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Title View of old and new Marcus, Washington, ca. 1941
Creator Unknown
Date ca. 1941
Description Caption on image: "There will always be a Marcus", F.E. "Sunny" Horn, Mayor of Marcus since 1932, wants you to know. He points to the town's new site on a bench well above high water mark of the lake being formed behind Grand Coulee dam on which there is already a new grade and high school, a church in the building and a dozen homes moved up from old Marcus which is seen in the background, a water company's well and land cleared for a super-market. Caption on verso: US WPA...
Subject Mayors--Washington (State)--Marcus; Rivers--Washington (State) Marcus (Wash.); Horn, F.E.; Columbia River
Coverage United States--Washington (State)--Marcus
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,43

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