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They cut down the Old Pine Tree, 1941

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Title They cut down the Old Pine Tree, 1941
Creator Unknown
Date 1941
Description Caption included with image: "They cut down the Old Pine Tree." The last remaining tree in the Columbia River reservoir was cut down with fitting ceremony on July 19, 1941 when Frank A. Banks, Bureau of Reclamation, Supervising Engineer, and Carl W. Smith, Works Projects Administrator, fell the last remaining pine tree at the official closing of the huge project which started in 1938 on which some 3,000 men employed from ten Counties, cleared over 52,000 acres, forming a 151-mile reservoir...
Subject Pine--Washington (State); Clearing of land--Washington (State) Banks, Frank A.; Smith, Carl W.; United States. Works Projects Administration--Employees; Tree felling--Washington (State)
Coverage United States--Washington (State)
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,58

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