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Side-Hill Gantry Crane

Washington State University Libraries

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Title Side-Hill Gantry Crane
Description "Side-hill" gantry crane. The upper runway rail is 36 feet above the trestle deck and is set into the sloping face of the dam. This crane and a similar one on the other end of the dam were used to complete concrete placing in the abutment sections. "Side-hill" gantry crane. The upper runway rail is 36 feet above the trestle deck and is set into the sloping face of the dam. This crane and a similar one on the other end of the dam were used to complete concrete placing in the abutment sections.
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 cg040b07v08p106.jpg http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/banks,2958
Date 5/3/1940 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 106)-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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