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East Side of "Ice Dam"

Washington State University Libraries

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Title East Side of "Ice Dam"
Description Looking through high trestle bents at ice dam in deep crevice on ease side. This image gives some ideas of the enormity of the "Ice Dam" and shows the refrigeration plant used to maintain the freezing temperatures in the numerous pipes placed through the wall of mud to solidify it for excavation and grout sealing.
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; Excavation--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Cofferdams--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
Coverage Ice Dam Gorge; Excavation United States--Washington (State)--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam site, Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)
Type Photographs
Identifier 40b5v4p184.jpg http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/banks,1329
Date 9/29/1936 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 184)-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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