Record Details

Glass Block Window Frames

Washington State University Libraries

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Title Glass Block Window Frames
Description One of the frames that will support the glass blocks for the giant 40-foot high windows in the west powerhouse, assembled outside of the control bay. Three employees of contractor Owens-Illinois Glass Company are shown constructing one of the ten bay windows for the downstream wall of the left powerhouse.
Creator United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Subject Construction contracts--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Lattice windows--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Hydroelectric power plants--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
Coverage Construction employees; Window boxes--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam United States--Washington (State)--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam site, Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)
Type Photographs
Identifier cg040b07v10p132.jpg http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/banks,4832
Date 4/8/1942 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. X, Page 132)-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

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