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Preparing the dining hall at Gerome Camp, ca. 1940

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Title Preparing the dining hall at Gerome Camp, ca. 1940
Creator Unknown
Date ca. 1940
Description Caption on verso: Gerome Camp Camp Gerome was located on the left bank of the Columbia 61-1/2 miles above the dam and near the old town of Gerome. Built originally as a 375-man its capacity was increased by the addition of tents to 472 men. This camp's work area was a 20-1/2 mile stretch along the river beginning at the upper limit of the Camp Lincoln district.

[Grand Coulee Dam 184]
Subject Construction camps--Washington (State); Mess halls--Washington (State); Cooks--Washington (State) Camp Gerome (Wash.); Tableware--Washington (State)
Coverage United States--Washington (State)--Camp Gerome
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,94

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