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Blasting stumps across the river from Camp Gifford, 1940.

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Title Blasting stumps across the river from Camp Gifford, 1940.
Creator Unknown
Date 1940
Description Label on verso: WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION, M-9; STATE OF WASHINGTON; Date: 8-30-40; O.P. No. WP 3570; Zone #3; County: Stevens; City; Neg. 686; Title: Coulee Clearance; Caption: Blasting stumps across river from Camp Gifford. Timber on right will be left standing on this land which will be an island in Coulee Lake. Stumps must be blasted out near the lake's ultimate shoreline in order that they will not impede navigation or be washed out by wave action and float down to the dam. US WPA...
Subject Blasting--Washington (State); Clearing of land--Washington (State); Explosions--Washington (State) Tree stumps--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,67

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