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Water Falling over Grand Coulee Dam

Washington State University Libraries

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Title Water Falling over Grand Coulee Dam
Description Spectacular waterfall at Coulee Dam surpasses Niagara in height. During the 1940 flood stage, the Columbia River was diverted through the outlet works and over a portion of the unfinished spillway section. Aerial view of both the nearly complete Grand Coulee Dam and the lower town of Coulee.
Relation Part of Western Waters Digital Library: http://harvester.lib.utah.edu/wwdl/; Photographer Unknown
Creator United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Subject Spillways--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.); Gravity dams--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
Coverage Grand Coulee (Wash.); Spillways--Washington--Grand Coulee Dam United States--Washington (State)--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam site, Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)
Type Aerial Photographs
Identifier cg040b07v08p02.jpg http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/banks,2954
Date 06/07/1940 2009
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. VIII, Page 02)-Cage 40 Box 6a: 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 scanned at 24 bit color, with 4000 pixels by the long side, for master TIFF files on an Epson Expression 10,000 XL scanner. Prints were then batch translated into JPEG files. These JPEGs were then added to the CONTENTdm database at WSU Libraries.
Language English

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