Record Details
Moving a house in Marcus, Washington to a new location above the high water line, 1941.
University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Moving a house in Marcus, Washington to a new location above the high water line, 1941. |
| Creator | Unknown |
| Date | 1941 |
| Description |
Caption included with image: "MARCUS MOVES" -- A common sight to the WPA Crews clearing the Columbia river reservoir area, is that of towns being moved. Now its Marcus' turn. This house, being hauled on multiple wheels along Main Street, is the home of Elmer Bircher, thirty years a Marcus resident. Worker atop roof of the moving house is holding up light and phone wires as they house passes under them. Caption on verso: US WPA 570 [Grand Coulee Dam 308] |
| Subject | Moving of structures--Washington (State)--Marcus; Houses--Washington (State)--Marcus; Trucks--Washington (State)--Marcus Marcus (Wash.); Main Street (Marcus, Wash.) |
| 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,62 |
