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Delivery of Railroad for Contractor Operation

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Title Delivery of Railroad for Contractor Operation
Description Part of the official party at the opening of the U. S. Construction Railroad celebration, left to right: Governor C. D. Martin, locomotive engineer; Mr. Francis Donaldson, Chief Engineer, M.W.A.K. Company; Mr. J. I. Dinman, President Spokane Chamber of Commerce; Mr. Jas. O'Sullivan, Columbia Basin Commission; Mr. E. F. Blaine,"Father of Irrigation" Guy F. Atkinson, Vice President, M.W.A.K. Company; Ben H. Kizer, Chairman, State Planning Commission; Wm. Clapp, Attorney, Ephrats; E. L. Kier,... Photograph of those participating in the official celebration of the handover of a railroad for construction operations at the Grand Coulee Dam.
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 Martin, Clarence D.(Clarence Daniel); 1886-1955; Donaldson, Francis,;(Chief Engineer, M.W.A.K.; Kinman, J. I.(President Spokane Chamber of Commerce); O’Sullivan, Mr. Jas.(Columbia Basin Commission); Blaine, E. F.(Father of Irrigation); Atkinson, Guy F.(Vice President, M.W.A.K.; Kizer, Ben H.(Chairman, State Planning Commission); Markhus, O. G. F. Clapp, Wm.(Attorney Columbia Basin Project (U.S.); Kier, E. L.(Vice President, M.W.A.K.; Slocum, Harvey (General Superintendent, M.W.A.K.; Railroads--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
Coverage Railroads; Government Officials United States--Washington (State)--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam site, Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)
Type Photographs
Identifier 40b4v3p240.jpg http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/banks,1197
Date 7/29/1935 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 240)-Cage 40, Box 6 of the Frank Arthur Banks Papers, 1913-1957: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/Holland/masc/finders/cg40.htm
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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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