Record Details
Watching Marcus, Washington burn, 1941.
University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Watching Marcus, Washington burn, 1941. |
| Creator | Unknown |
| Date | 1941 |
| Description | Caption included with image: Two Marcus residents, sitting in the window of the old Marcus School, watching the night burning of a group of old Marcus homes and outbuildings as a part of the clearing operations carried on by the WPA in the Grand Coulee reservoir. Buildings were purchased by the Bureau of Reclamation and turned over to the WPA for demolition. The old Marcus school house, already partly demolished by a salvage company will be leveled by WPA crews, clearing the old Marcus... |
| Subject | Clearing of land--Washington (State)--Marcus; Ruins--Washington (State)--Marcus Marcus (Wash.); Marcus School (Marcus, Wash.); |
| Coverage | United States--Washington (State) |
| Relation | Grand Coulee Dam Collection |
| Identifier | UW25993 http://content.lib.washington.edu/u?/grandcoulee,51 |
| 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. |
