Record Details
Caterpillars used by WPA in clearing the Grand Coulee Reservoir, ca. 1940
University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Caterpillars used by WPA in clearing the Grand Coulee Reservoir, ca. 1940 |
| Creator | Unknown |
| Date | ca. 1940 |
| Description |
Caption included with image: Caterpillar tractors used by WPA in clearing the Grand Coulee reservoir are shown lined up for service beside the old Highway # 22 on the flat midway between the towns of Daisy and Rice, during final clearing operations in the Camp Gifford area. Lake water formed by the Columbia River backing up behind Grand Coulee dam will soon cover this area. Caption on verso: US WPA 660 [Grand Coulee Dam 72] |
| Subject | Crawler tractors--Washington (State); Trucks--Washington (State); Clearing of land--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,95 |
