Record Details
Burning a house near Camp Lincoln, ca. 1941.
University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Burning a house near Camp Lincoln, ca. 1941. |
| Creator | Unknown |
| Date | ca. 1941 |
| Description |
Caption included with image: One of the first of early settler's houses in the path of the WPA clearing project crew, near Camp Lincoln. All stumps, unsaleable trees and other combustible debres is (editor's correction: are) burned as the WPA crews move up the banks of the Columbia River above Grand Coulee dam, preparing the future lake bed of the 151 mile Coulee Dam Reservoir. Caption on verso: Burning house near Lincoln US WPA 562 Newspaper caption included: SOON A MEMORY--One... |
| Subject | Clearing of land--Washington (State)--Camp Lincoln; Fires--Washington (State); Smoke--Washington (State) Camp Lincoln (Wash.) |
| Coverage | United States--Washington (State)--Camp Lincoln |
| Relation | Grand Coulee Dam Collection |
| Identifier | UW12591 http://content.lib.washington.edu/u?/grandcoulee,106 |
| 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. |
