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Constructing Coffer Dam with Steam Hammer

Washington State University Libraries

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Title Constructing Coffer Dam with Steam Hammer
Description Placing a 6 1/2-foot-ton McKiernan steam hammer in pile driving. Photograph of a worker suspended in the air placing a 6 and 1/2 foot-ton steam hammer in place to drive pylons in construction of Grand Coulee cofferdam.
Relation Part of Western Waters Digital Library: http://harvester.lib.utah.edu/wwdl/
Creator Photographer Unknown; United States Department of the Interior: Bureau of Reclamation
Subject Cofferdams--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)--Design and construction--Photographs; Diversion weirs--Columbia River; Trestles--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Power hammers--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
Coverage Pilings (Civil engineering); Dam construction; Pile drivers; Hoisting Machinery United States--Washington (State)--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam site, Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)
Type Photographs
Identifier 40b4v3p105.jpg http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/banks,1111
Date 1935-03-08 2007
Publisher Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masc.htm
Source Columbia Basin Project History (Vol. III, Page 105)-Cage 40, Box 6 of the Frank Arthur Banks Papers, 1913-1957: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/Holland/masc/finders/cg40.htm
Rights To order a reproduction please see: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/policies.htm; or contact Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections: (509) 335-6691. For permission to publish please contact Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections: (509) 335-6691.
Format Original photographic prints were scanned at 24 bit 3000 PPI by the long side for master TIFF files on an Epson Expression 10,000 XL scanner. While 24 bit 150 PPI JPEG also created and added to the CONTENTdm database at the WSU Libraries
Language English

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