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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: Kettle Falls; Neg. 682; Title: Coulee Clearance; Caption: Blasting Stumps across river from Camp Gifford. A dozen large stumps, each with as many as 50 sticks of dynamite under it are sent skyward as part of the Camp Gifford blasting crew look on in the foreground. Stump fragments are seen high in the air. US WPA 620

[Grand Coulee Dam...
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
Identifier UW12596 http://content.lib.washington.edu/u?/grandcoulee,105
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.

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