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Aerial View Southeast of Block 40

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Title Aerial View Southeast of Block 40
Description Looking southeast at Block 40, timber plug on spillway to section "G" of west cofferdam, ends of the two placing trestles, and cell cluster in section "D"; Large scale view of construction activities during the summer of 1936 with the construction of concrete placing trestles and other routine features clearly visible from the high vantage point.
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; United States Department of the Interior: Bureau of Reclamation
Subject Trestles--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Foundations--Design and construction--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)--Excavation; Construction workers--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Belt conveyors--Design and construction--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Cofferdams--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Cranes, derricks, etc.--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
Coverage Construction; Excavation; Civil engineering; Erosion protection works; Concrete; Construction employees United States--Washington (State)--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam site, Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)
Type Photographs
Identifier 40b5v4p153.jpg http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/banks,1301
Date 6/26/1936 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. IV, Page 153)-Cage 40, Box 05 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 pixels 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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