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Flooded East Pit

Washington State University Libraries

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Title Flooded East Pit
Description East pit flooded behind Wakefield cofferdam (el. 965); Left foreground shows beginning of west end concrete placing trestle and east concrete mixer - at the right are aggregate stock piles and contractor's machine shops. Suspension bridge for aggregate conveyor crosses river to west mixer behind west cofferdam. Long view photograph of construction activities 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; United States Department of the Interior: Bureau of Reclamation
Subject Cofferdams--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Trestles--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Bridges--Columbia River; Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)--Design and construction--Materials
Coverage Dam Construction; Dams; Power Plants; Concrete; Trestles; Construction United States--Washington (State)--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam site, Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)
Type Photographs
Identifier 40b5v4p86.jpg http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/banks,1458
Date 05/01/1936 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 86)-Cage 40 Box 5 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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