Record Details
Field | Value |
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Title | Concrete Placement |
Description | Concrete block on east abutment, showing grouting and drainage tunnel and upstream fillet. Workers pouring foundations of the Grand Coulee Dam made blockouts for a series of access, drainage, and grouting tunnels running along the bottom of the Grand Coulee Dam. Shown here are the concrete forms used to create those outlet tunnels. |
Relation | Part of Western Waters Digital Library: http://harvester.lib.utah.edu/wwdl/; Photographer Unknown |
Creator | United States. Bureau of Reclamation |
Subject | Tunnels--Design and Construction--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Concrete--Dewatering--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Concrete--Expansion and contraction--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Concrete dams--Foundations--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Concrete--Formwork--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam |
Coverage | Concrete; Dam construction United States--Washington (State)--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam site, Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.) |
Type | photographs |
Identifier | 40b6v5p279.jpg http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/banks,1608 |
Date | 4/23/1937 2008 |
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. V, Page 279)-Cage 40, Box 6 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 |