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Government observation point for visitors, Grand Coulee Dam site, ca. 1936

University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections

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Title Government observation point for visitors, Grand Coulee Dam site, ca. 1936
Creator Unknown
Date ca. 1936
Description Note on album leaf: Facilities for visitors. Some 200,000 visitors in 1936 inspected a model of the dam and from sheltered seats close to the work on each side of the river viewed the construction work and had it explained over a public address system.

PH Coll 239.33
Subject Visitors' centers--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee; Dam construction--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee
Coverage United States--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee
Relation Grand Coulee Dam Collection
Source University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division Views of the Grand Coulee Dam, Columbia Basin Project, Washington Collection. PH Coll 239
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,134

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