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Side-Hill Bracket Gantry Crane

Washington State University Libraries

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Title Side-Hill Bracket Gantry Crane
Description To continue construction of the right abutment section of the dam above the trestle level, the contractor erected a side hill bracket gantry crane which traveled on the upstream rail of the trestle deck and on a rail 36 feet higher, in a recess along the downstream face of the dam. To continue construction of the right abutment section of the dam above the trestle level, the contractor erected a side hill bracket gantry crane which traveled on the upstream rail of the trestle deck and on a rail 36 feet higher, in a recess along the downstream face of the dam.
Relation Part of Western Waters Digital Library: http://harvester.lib.utah.edu/wwdl/; Photographer Unknown
Creator United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Subject Gantry cranes--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
Coverage Cranes; Concrete; Trestles United States--Washington (State)--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam site, Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)
Type Photographs
Identifier cg040b07v08p105.jpg http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/banks,2957
Date 2/1/1940 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 105)-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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