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Title page 166
Relation Power and the Pacific Northwest
Date 2005-04-20 to 2005-05-09
Rights This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested.
Type page
Format Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 172.82 kb 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - greyscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR 8 bit tiffs and generate text files for full text access. 16 bit grayscale and 48>24 RGB color tiffs edited in Photoshop CS 8.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted, grayscale bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created.
Description Impressive as is the equipment of the BPA, it is people who make the system work. Behind each insulator, conductor, and tower in the system lie the though and labor of the men and women who built it.
Image caption: Using long wooden poles, appropriately called "hot sticks," linemen work on an energized conductor.
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,2090

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