Record Details
Finished Spillway Road
Washington State University Libraries
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Finished Spillway Road |
| Description | The crest of the Grand Coulee Dam spillway has become a thing of beauty. Recent removal of the false work, used to erect the 11 bridges across the 1650-foot middle section of the structure, exposed for the first time in the completed arches through which a waterfall twice as high as Niagara and five city blocks wide will plunge. Each span is 125 feet wide. The surface of the 136-mile lake was only a few feet below the concrete on which the piers for the arches rest, and 315 feet above the... The crest of the Grand Coulee Dam spillway has become a thing of beauty. Recent removal of the false work, used to erect the 11 bridges across the 1650-foot middle section of the structure, exposed for the first time in the completed arches through which a waterfall twice as high as Niagara and five city blocks wide will plunge. Each span is 125 feet wide. The surface of the 136-mile lake was only a few feet below the concrete on which the piers for the arches rest, and 315 feet above the... |
| 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; Roads--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam |
| Coverage | Spillways--Washington--Grand Coulee Dam; Roads--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam United States--Washington (State)--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam site, Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.) |
| Type | Photographs |
| Identifier | 40b7f2pg102.jpg http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/banks,4517 |
| Date | 11/18/1941 2010 |
| 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. IX, Page 1102)-Cage 40, Box 07 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 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 |
