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Last tree in the Camp Gifford area, 1941.

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Title Last tree in the Camp Gifford area, 1941.
Creator Unknown
Date 1941
Description Caption included with image; Last tree felled in Camp Gifford clearing area by WPA crews. Standing beside the tree which was felled along the old river highway on a flat midway between the towns of Rice and Daisy are, from left to right: H.M. Sheerer of the Bureau of Reclamation, W.L. Radke, General Superintendent of the Columbia River Reservoir Clearing project, Lou Wagner, assistant Superintendent of Camp Gifford and Austin Welch, Superintendent of Camp Gifford. Camp Gifford has been...
Subject Clearing of land--Washington (State); Pine--Washington (State); Axes; Saws Sheerer, H.M.; Radke, W.L.; Wagner, Lou; Welch, Austin; United States. Works Projects Administration--Employees; Logging--Equipment and supplies
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,61

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