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Aggregate Stock Piles

Washington State University Libraries

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Title Aggregate Stock Piles
Description Waste (surplus) sand pile in center; blended sand for use, under trestle; and fine gravel pile to the right. Shown here is the finished products coming from the Aggregate processing facility. These stock piles served as the raw material for the mass amounts of concrete required for the construction of 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; United States Department of the Interior: Bureau of Reclamation
Subject Aggregates--Washington (State)--Columbia River Valley; Aggregate processing plants--Washington (State)--Columbia River Valley; Conveying machinery--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
Coverage Concrete; Conveying Systems--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Excavation; Brett Gravel Pit United States--Washington (State)--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam site, Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)
Type Photographs
Identifier 40b5v4p211.jpg http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/banks,1349
Date 05/06/1936 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 211)-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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