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A.H. Smythe and wife with WPA administrator, Kettle Falls, April 12, 1939

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Title A.H. Smythe and wife with WPA administrator, Kettle Falls, April 12, 1939
Creator Unknown
Date 1939
Description Label on verso: WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION, M-9; STATE OF WASHINGTON; Date taken: April, 12th, 1939. Zone; County; City; Title: Columbia River Clearance Project;

Descriptive Caption: "Let 'er come," says A.H. Smythe and old timer at Kettle Falls, "I've got me a piece of ground back yonder from the high water mark, and I've got most of my house already built on it." Mr. & Mrs. Smythe are shown at what remains of their old home, which will be completely under water with the backing...
Subject Dwellings--Washington (State)--Kettle Falls; Clearing of land--Washington (State)--Kettle Falls; Smythe, A.H.; Smythe, A.H., Mrs.
Coverage United States--Washington (State)--Kettle Falls
Relation Grand Coulee Dam Collection
Identifier UW25989 http://content.lib.washington.edu/u?/grandcoulee,111
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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